THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24 FEBRUARY, 1866.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
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It is hereby notified for general information that the benefits of the Pattern Post have been so far extended as to allow masters of Tea to be sent in tin boxes by the post from Hongkong to the United Kingdom, provided the boxes used are thout sharp corners, and are of such shape and construction that they be not injurions to the contents of the mail bags, or 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.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,
It is hereby notified for general in1ormation 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-an-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.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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.:--
of an ounce
Under
in weight.
16 cents.
FOR A LETTER
Above † an ounce and not exceeding an ounce.
32 cents.
Above an ounce and not exceeding & of an ounce.
48 cents.
For every additional
1 ounce. 16 cents.
bere.
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, Tbraila, Ineboli, Jaffa, Kerussun, Latakia, Mersina, Mitylene, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, Sinope, Smyrna, Sulina, Tangiers, Trebizond, Tripoli in Syria, Tultcha, Tunis, or Varna.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 18656.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,
It is hereby notified for general information that under the provisions of a Postal Convention just concluded with Austria, the postage on Correspondence addressed to Trieste, or Northern Europe, specially marked to be forwarded "viâ Triesto," will henceforward be levied at the following rates, viz.:—
Not exceeding of Above 4 of an ounce and not
an ounce.
12 cents.
exceeding an ounce.
24 cents.
UPON A LETTER
Above an ounce and not exceding of an ounce.
36 cents.
Above of an ounce and not exceeding 1 ounce, 48 cents.
For every additional
of an ounce. 12 cents.
Newspapers will be liable to a postage of 2 cents each.
UPON A BOOK PACKET AND UPON PATTERNS OF MERCHANDIZE
Not exceeding 4 ounces
in weight.
6 cents.
Above 4 ounces and not exceeding 15 12 cents.
And so on adding 12 cents for every additional half pound.
The
postage in every case must be paid in advance.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1866.
Above and not
exceeding lib 24 cents.
Above 11h and not exceeding 14b 36 cents.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.
6 A.M.
NOON.
6 P.M.
1800.
Barometer.
Thermometer. Barometer. Thermometer: Barometer.
Thermometer.
February
17
30.08
18
30.07
""
19
30.00
20
29.94
"
21
29.88
22
20.82.
">
23
29.87
233888
62
30.07
63
30.05
64
29.99
65
20.99
69
66
29.88
66
29.86
69
29.91
8288888
62
30.07
64
66
30.00
67
69
29.95
70
29.90
71
29.85 29.86
72
72
69
29.95
72
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70
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