THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1868. 31
The decision of the Postmaster General as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern, or sample contained therein, to be forwarded under these regulations, will be final and conclusive.
The rule which forbids the transmission through the Post of any article likely to injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Pattern Post; and a packet containing anything of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Articles such as the following have been occasionally posted as Patterns and have been detained as unfit for the Post, viz.: Metal boxes, porcelain and China, fruit, vegetables, bunches of flowers, cuttings of planes, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various kinds, curry combs, copper and steel engraving, plates and confectionery of all kinds.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1868.
No. 14.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
F. W. MITCHELL, "Postmaster General.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 17th Proximo, for the erection of Officers' Quarters for the Harbor Master's Department.
Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1868.
No. 12.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL in Council is pleased to direct that, until further notice, the only Anchorage in the waters of Hongkong for Foreign Vessels of War, and Foreign Cruisers of every description and Nationality, shall be within the following Boundaries:
Western Boundary.
A line running from the Government Wharf to the Melville," Hospital Ship.
Northern Boundary.
A line running from the "Melville" Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.
Eastern Boundary.
A line running from St. Francis Hospital towards Kowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary. The above Regulation do not refer to Vessels driven by stress of weather, or any exceptional circumstances, to take up other temporary anchorages.
By Command,
CECIE C. SMITH Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.
No. 6.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The attention of Owners and Occupiers of Houses is drawn to the Provisions of the “Police and Lighting Rate Amendment Ordinance, 188 No. 11 of 1867, which Ordinance came into force on the 1st instant and particularly to Section 5 which lays down the mode in which a Refuad of Taxes is to be obtained.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th January, 1868.
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CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
acordance with Section 12 of "The Police and Lighting Rate GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, ear 1868 at Ten and a quarter per cent for Houses in the City of Section 18 of the same Ordinance at Five per cent for Houses in
It is hereby notified that, in Ordinance, 1863," His Excellent has fixed the Police Rate for the Victoria; and inccordance with the Villages of this Island.