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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 11.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH MARCH, 1868.
VOL. XIV.
No. 30.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that the appointment of WILLIAM KESWICK, Esquire, to a Seat in the Legislative Council of Hongkong was approved by Her Majesty The QUEEN in Council on the 1st of January last.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th March, 1868.
No. 31.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Circular Despatch from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, covering the accompanying Communication from the Secretary to the General Post Office, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th March, 1868.
CIRCULAR.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET, 22nd January, 1868. SIR,-I transmit to you a copy of a Letter from the General Post Office, explaining the circumstances which have rendered it necessary to make an alteration in the Time Table of the India, China and Australian Mail Packet Service for the year 1868, and I enclose corrected copies of the Time Table which I have to instruct you to substitute for those which were forwarded to you in my Circular Despatch of the 17th ultimo.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
Governor
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.,
BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
Mr. Tilley to Sir F. Rogers.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, 14th January, 1868. SIR, With reference to my letter of the 10th ultimo, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, that an alteration has been made in the Time Table of the India, China and Australian Mail Packet Service for the year 1868, it having been found that the principle on which the Australian Service was arranged in the Time Table at first prepared, and copies of which were transmitted in my letter above referred to, was inconvenient, inasmuch as there would have been an interval of twenty-six days between the arrival of the Australian Mails in London and the departure of the next Outward Mails.
6th March 2
After the despatch from this Office of the Mails for Ceylon and China of the 29th February, the next despatch of Mails to Ceylon and China, as well as to Australia, will take place one week later than the days set down in the original Time Table; that is, the Mails which would have been despatched, according to that Table,
14th on the
March, will not be despatched until the 27th
March, and so on throughout the year, causing the arrival at Point de Galle, and at all the Ports eastward of Galle to be, in like manner, one week later than the date given in the said Table.
21st
20th
The Agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at Point de Galle, has been requested, by means of the electric telegraph, to communicate the intended alteration to the Postmasters in the Straits Settlements, and to the Postmasters-General of Hongkong and the Australian Colonies, and it is hoped that they will be informed of the change by the same Mail by which they will receive the Time Tables already sent out.