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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1870.
D.
RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE of the United States' Mail Packets during 1869, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of the Mails between Hongkong and San Francisco.
Name of Packet.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyage
China,
Great Republic,
Japan,
China,
Great Republic,
Japan,
China,
Great Republic,
*Oregonian,
Japan,
Cllina,
America,
March
ARRIVAL.
Date of Arrival at Hongkong.
Date of Departure from San Francisco.
1869.
1868.
January
February
11
13
5
∞own on a
8
December
36
1869 January
39
February
33
9
March
36
9
April
35
May
33
June
·33*
July
35
August
33
September
33
October
36
November
36
Total,
423
April May June July August September October November December
*The Mails by this vessel were conveyed to Yokohama by the America.
Name of Packet.
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 35,4.
DEPARTURE.
Date of Departure from Hangkong.
China,
Great Republic,
Japan,
China,
Great Republic,
Japan,
China,
Great Republic,.
America,
Japan,
China,
America,
Date of Arrival at San Francisco.
Number of Days
occupied
in the Voyage.
1869.
1869.
January February
19
February
23
36
19
March
27
37
March
19
April
24
37
April
19
May
20
32
May
19
June
24
37
June
19
July
20
32
Jaiy
19
August
19
32
August
19
September
18
31
September
18
October
20
33
October
19
November
22
35
November
19
December
26
38
December
18
1870 January 23
37
Total,.
417
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 34ĻA.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 19th March, 1870. .
No. 36.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C. B., has been pleased to appoint. ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, to be. Sheriff of Hongkong, from this date until further notice, rice M. S. TONNOCHY, Esquire.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1870.
No. 34.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C. B., has been pleased to appoint RICHARD YOUNG, Esquire, L.R.C.P. and S. Edin., to act provisionally as Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital from the 8th Instant, vice DR. COCHRAN, deceased.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.