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The Hongkong Socgrament Gazette.
RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
[OCTOBER 29, 1556.
62 M-onerata Fraunr, M.C.
LONDON, 941 Natemale), 1859.
Notion is hereby given that this Company will be prepared to transtalt, Musages fer the Pablie on and after the 1st of O-tober, and to farther notice, between ALEXANDRIA and ADEN; and that the following scale of charges has been fixed for through Mes-ages over this purtio.. their line, viz:
For a Message of Twenty Words, including the address-----
From Alexandria to Bitez
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The Directors have entered into a provisional agreement with the Electric and International Telegraph Company for the transmission their Messages to and from Alexandria, and Agents have been specially appointed for that purpose.
Arrangements have elso been concluded with the Indian Governicent and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company wit regard to Messages between Ispia and ADEN.
The only routes at present available between this Country and Alexandria are those vid Marseilles and Trieste, but the Mediterranes Extension Company expect shortly to open their new line to Malta, whilst there is every probability that a direct communication with Alex. andria will be established through Constantinople in the course of a few weeks.
In the meantime Messages for the Red Sea, India, Australia or China can be despatched from any Station of the Electric and Interna. tional Telegraph Company, via Trieste or Marseilles, at the following rates :----
For a single Message of not exceeding Twenty Words, including the address-
From England to Suez (including the charge to Alexandria) £017 0
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Half the price of a single Message being charged for every Ten Words or fraction of Ten Words in excess.
Thus, for a Message from England to India or from Twenty to Thirty Words, the charge will be £4.5s. 6d. ; from Thirty to Forty Words, £5 145., &e
Due notice will be given of the Tariff via Malta as soon as the line comes into operation
Messages for Austrália and China will be forwarded by post from ADEN.
Messages from India, with the full payment due upon them, at the above rates, will be received at any of the Government Telegraph Sta- tions in that country, and forwarded by telegraph to Bombay, and thence, by the first opportunity, to ADEN.
Messages from AUSTRALIA and CHINA must be sent by steamer to the Company's Superintendent at ADEN, and Deposits will be received at the Ofilee of the Electric and International Telegraph Company at Lothbury, as security for the payment of such Messages by the parties receiving them in England.
All Messages will be forwarded by the first vessel leaving either of the Company's Terminal Stations, ÁLEXANDRIA or ÅDEN,
The Company will not be responsible in any case for delays arising either from the absence of such means of transmission, or from any interruption in the working of their Telegraph, or from any other cause.
In order to provide as far as possible against mistakes in the transmission of Messages by the Electric Telegraph, every Message of consequence ought to be REPEATED by being sent back from the Station at which it is to be received, to the Station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the Message,
Ang further informantion may be obtained at the Company's Office.
NOTICE.
HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 26th October, 1859.
In connection with the Notification from this Office of the 14th May last. Masters and others in charge of Merchant Vessels, are hereby directed to move their Ships over to the South (Hongkong) side of the Harbour on the 1st November proximo.
A direct line from Kellet's Island, intersceting the P. & O. Company's Receiving Ship Fort William, to the lower gap on Lantow, (Kellet's Island bearing E. by S. Į S.,) shall be considered the line North of which no Vessel shall anchor between the 1st November and 1st June next. The North side of this line to be a clear working passage; and for public convenience no vessels shall bring up inconveniently near the P. & O. Company's Receiving Ship Fort William, but leave plenty of room for the access of the Mail Steamers.
Vessels shall not berth within 600 yards from the Shore, so that an Inner Passage may be kept clear for the convenience of Steamers and small Coasting Craft; avoiding that part of the Anchorage occupied by Her Majesty's Ships in the vicinity of the Dockyard and Arsenal.
Vessels not mooring shall anchor with Forty Fathoms of Chain to their Best Bower, having their Second Bower a Cock-bill and Chain ranged on deck all clear to let go at any moment.
NOTICE.
W. H. NEWMAN,
Acting Harbour Master,
HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 26th October, 1859.
All persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the year 1859-60, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, are required to send in their Applications in writing to this Office on or before Saturday the 19th November next, stating the Name of tho Applicant, the District number of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.
It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the Westward of Gough Street Stairs.
W. H. NEWMAN, Acting Harbour Master.
No. 72.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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Tenders must specify terms on which the Gazette will be undertaken at a certain rate per page, half-page, block of ten lines, or single line; also the terms for supplying Copies of Ordinances, Notifications, &c., made up into pages from the Gazette without alteration of width.
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