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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH FEBRUARY, 1866.
The Light is a First Class, fixed, Dioptrie Light, and is visible in clear weather about 19 nautical miles from the deck of a large Ship. It shows through an angle of 161 30 illuminating the western horizon, and is cut off on two bearings, respectively, N. N. W. and S. 3 E. from the Light House, the former passing one and a half miles clear of the Patch Buoy, off Amherst to the west; and the latter, one and a quarter miles clear of Callagouk Island, also to the west. An isolated beam of light shows from the Patch Buoy eastward as far as Amherst Point,
Amherst Point bears from the Light.
Patch Buov.
Callagoak Island
Double Island is in..
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N. by W. ¿ W.
(W. Point) S. by E. Latitude 18° 52′ 30′′ N. Longitude 97° 36′ 30′ E.
Vessels after making the light should endeavour to keep it between the bearings of S. E. and N. E., paying particular attention to the state of the tides, as they run on the springs about five knots an hour, parallel with the Coast. Vessels standing-in too close to the land will lose the Light altogether; but so long as the Light is kept in sight they will be in no danger until they are ten miles to the northward of it when they will be approaching the Goodwin Sands, where the tides set
very strong.
The anchoring ground in the vicinity of Double Island is very good; but, of course, on account of the strength of the tides, Vessels should avoid, as much as possible, the risk of anchoring in such deep water.
DOUBLE ISLAND, the 6th December, 1865.
(Signed)
J. M. MCNEILE, Lieut., R. E.,
Executive Engineer, D. I. L. II.
A. J. DODD,
Ofg. Master Attendant, Moulmein.
(Signed)
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E. C. BAYLEY, Secy. to the Govt. of India.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward, an alteration will take place in the scale of weight for charging letters sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom, by substituting for the present scale of progression a scale having half-on-ounce as a unit throughout, with the postage advancing by one rate for each half-ounce.
Thus a letter weighing more than one ounce, but under one ounce and a half, will be chargeable with three rates of postage, instead of four as at present; and if exceeding two ounces, but under two ounces and a half, will be chargeable with five rates of postage instead of six; and so on.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 9th February, 1866.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that the benefits of the Pattern Post have been so far extended as to allow musters of Tea to be sent in tin boxes by the post from Hongkong to the United Kingdom, provided the boxes used are without sharp corners, and are of such shape and construction that they be not injurious to the contents of the mail bags, or to the Officers of the Post Office, and provided also that they can be readily opened for examination of the contents.
The transmission of glass bottles by the post is altogether prohibited.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 9th February, 1866.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that under an arrangement entered into by the British and French Post Offices, henceforward correspondence forwarded in the Mails by the British Packets from Hongkong addressed to any of the undermentioned places in the Levant at which France maintains Post Offices will be liable to the same rates of postage as correspondence addressed to France, viz.:—
here.
in weight.
Under of an ounce
10 cents.
FOR A LETTER
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Above an ounce and not exccoding & of an ounce.
48 cents.
For every additional
10 cents.
Abore † an ounce and not exceeding an ounce. 32 cents.
ounce.
Prepayment of the postage on letters is optional; the postage on Newspapers and other printed papers cannot be paid
Letters may be registered to these places under the same regulations as letters addressed to France.
The places in the Levant where France maintains Post Offices are: Alexandretta, Beyront, the Dardanelles, Galatz, Gallipoli, Ibraila, Ineboli, Jaffa, Kerassun, Latakia, Mersin, Mitylene, Rhodes, Salónica, Sainsoun, Sinope, Smyrna, Sulina, Tangiers, Trebizond, Tripoli in Syria, Tultcha, Tunis, or Varna.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1866.
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F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.