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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MARCH, 1870.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
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It is hereby notified for general information that, under the provisions of a Treasury Warrant 7th December last, the scale of Progression of Weight having half-an-ounce for its unit, has ded to all Letters forwarded between this Office and any of the Ports in China and Japan, etters addressed to Manila, Batavia, Saigon, Pondicherry, Bangkok, Labuan, Singapore, Malacea, Ceylon, India, Aden, Suez, Malta and the Ionian Islands, Gibraltar, and Spain and
od via Gibraltar.
rates of postage chargeable in future on Letters addressed to these places will therefore by a single rate of postage for each half ounce.
F. W: MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong 14th February 1870.
NOTICE.
Consignees and Masters of Ships are hereby informed that, after the 15th Proximo, the an Lary, North of which Vessels shall not anchor, is as follows:-
Kellet's Island bearing E. by S. 1S.
All Ships to be properly moored with 35 fathoms Chain (East and West).
The passage
between the North Boundary of Men-of-War anchorage and the Kowloon Peninsula. to be kept clear.
Steamers and Vessels not having definite employment will still remain on the North side.
H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,
Harbor Master's Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1869.
NOTICE.
Harbor Master, §c.
Any persons who have in their possession old Registration Tickets belonging to Servants who let or have been dismissed, are requested to send the same to this Office, with any remarks, on
te papers, they may wish to have recorded.
It would much tend to the more satisfactory working of the Registration of Domestic Servants, stration Tickets were in every case kept completely out of the possession of the Servants themselves. the dismissal of a Servant his Ticket should be sent to this Office, unless it can be handed at once Es new Employer, and should on no account be confided to his own custody.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 28th May, 1869.
ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, PRAya West.
GA.M.
NOON.
G P.M.
THERMOMETER.
1870.
Baro- Thermo- Buro- Thermo- meter. meter. meter.
Self Registering.
Baro
meter.
meter.
Thermo- meter.
Min.
Max.
26
200+
30.30
30.14
56
30.11
59
30.03
30.02
61
30.07
59
30.11
2888588
54
30.12
30.18
30.10
62
30.04
.30.05
30.09
59
30.12
GANCER,
68
67
71
72
67
67
888?***
55
70
*30.13
61
56
71
30.11
56
72
30.09
64
73
29.99
63
74
30.00
62
73
30.03
62
71
30.09
5653883
61
61
64
62
62
BAROXETER,
*KOON
G D.3.
6 A.31.
REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK. Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.
HYDROMETER.
THERMO- METER.
WINDS.
RAIN.
DRY BULB.
WET BULB.
"Seyf Registering
| Min. Mar.
NOON.
6 A.M.
Dirn.
Force, range from 0 to 12.
NOON. 6 P.M.
In inches during the previous 21 hours.
REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.
9 A.3.
F. Dirn. F. Dira. F.
* 28 29.49 28:44 18.50, 28.04 50.5 57.0|57.5 49.5 51.5 54.0
49.5 €0.0 NE
*** CAR W3 42 2840 98.36158.0|65.5
6.1.0 55.000,058.0 66.0 65.0 E
& NE
2 NE
GE
3
0.00
2 SE
2
0.00
Strong wind during past night; fine
very hazy. Fine, very hazy.
:
14 - 35 25 33 28.38 28.26 50.0 68.5 63.0 83.0 30.0 55.0 57.0 67.5 E 2*2*33 25.34 25.30 28.28c0.0|65. | 67.0 | 51.0 58.0 164.0 159.0 | 04.5 |E
6 E
5 E
$
0.00
Do.
3 E
3
3
0.00
Do.
2× 96 93.70 28.23 25.2 1.5 63.0 62.0 61.0 63.5 59.0 03.063.5 E.S.E: 2651 28.58 25.27 28.25 50.002.5 61.0 56.5 58.0 58.0 55.008.5 E (19 37 28 37 2UD1′28.81|01.0 | 62,0 163.0 63.559,062,0 | 60.0
4 E
4 E
5
0.00
Fine very hazy; 4 PM. light passing
for
5 E
5 E
0.00
62.6 E
GE
3 E
2
0.00
Thick passing fog until 9 A.M.; file
hazy overcast.
Passing fog until 8.30 ▲.M.; fine very
hazy.