THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1871.
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RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES of the United States Mail Packets during 1870, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of the Mails between Hongkong and San Francisco.
ARRIVALS.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyaye.
Japan, (209,
America,
Japan,
at Republic,
(LÍSA,
Japan,
Azerica,
tiat Republic,
China,
Japans America,
Japan,
China,
America,
Japan,
Great Republic,
China,
Japan,
America,
Great Republic,
China,
Japan, America,
Name of Packet.
Date of Arrival at Hongkong.
Date of Departure from San Francisco.
1869.
January
7 December
1
38
February
41870, January
1
35
March
5 February
1
33
April May
5 March
1
36
6 April
1
36
Juno July August
1
30
33
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3 June
1
*33
2 July
1
33
September
3 August
1
34
October
3 September
1
33
November
4 October
1
35
December
5
November
1
35
Total,
414
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 3414.
Name of Packet.
DEPARTURES.
Date of Departure from Hongkong.
Date of Arrival at San Francisco.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyage.
1870.
1870.
January February Marcli
12
12
February March
16
36
19
36
12 April
13
33
April May
12 May
13
32
12
June
14
31
June
11 July
13
33
July
12
August
12
32
August
12 | September
12
32
September
12 October
16
35
October
12
November
17
37
November
12 December
20
39
December
12 | 1871, January
17
87
Total,
416
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 3411.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1871.
No. 51.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice from the Honorable the Registrar General, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GAI DINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1871.
NOTICE.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor in Council having been pleased to direct that the Census for 1871 should be taken on the 2nd proximo, blank Schedules will be served on all Occupiers of the whole or portions of Houses in Hongkong and its Dependencies.
If any Occupier be overlooked in the distribution of Schedules, or if a Schedule be accidentally aislaid or destroyed, the deficiency can be supplied on application at the Registrar General's Office.
Where one Schedule is insufficient, others may be obtained in the same way, or from the distributing Officer.
This Notice refers only to the British and Foreign Population.
These Returns are required to complete the decennial Census which will be taken on April 2nd throughout the Queen's Dominions.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1871.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Registrar General.