Page
JUNE 16, 1889.
rances.
UBANUE OFFICE.
having been appointed above INSURANCH pared to accept Marne licies on any first class Steamers, on the usual axe of lose, in CHINA, RA, BOMBAY, OF LONDON 8. WALKER & Co. 21 18643
TICE.
ANCE COMPANY,
ates will be charged
rt period Insurance
per cent.
per cent,
per cent.
The full Annual Rate:
of 1 per cent. WALREH & Co., yal Insurance Company, 7,1808
TICE.
having received extend THE ROYAL INSUR-
are now authorised to"
Building, or on rein in Hongkongji 45,000. 3. WALKER & Co.,
Company of Liverpool,
17. 1864
UCTION
OF PREMIUM FOR
SURANCE,
have (as already inti Circular dated 14th O athority from the Bo AL INSURANCE, ce the rate of Preming stancos, on PRIVATE on FURNITURE and Eve- iped.
eusks
LING-HOUSES
removed
e rate of Premium will
er Cent, in place of One
as hitherto charged dences, so situated be detached, the rate will
o One-half per Cent,
ual Rates for Fix In
bus classes of Buildings
ill therefore retain si
r notica, viz.
Letached.
removed
nd their
ses (simi-
ad their
+ per cent,
2 per cent,
joue and
14 per cent,
r special arrangement.
WALKER & Co.,
al Insurance Company. aber 9, 1866,
ANCE COMPANY OF ANCISCO.
Agents for the above prepared to grant Pöli- on BUILDINGS and rutes.
RUSSELL & Co., tary 4, 1867.
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FIRE INSULANCE PANY.
-
having been appointed gkong for tlio above prepared to grant Fo ISKA, at currentiates RUSSELL & Co. 1, 1865.
URANCE ASSOCIA- SHANGHAL
don Marine Tisks to world at current ratca, usual brokerage, this to the assured ytsen
y profita divided pro Sum contributed.
RUSSELL & Co.
Secretaries,
1,1869.
JANCE COMPANY FRANCISCO.
having been appointed for the abore Lap.. prepared to grant Pol, Risks, at the curren
FUSSELL & Co. 1836.
O SEA AND
UE COMPANY OF RANG.
baving been appointed.
o for the above named-
ed to grant Policies
at the current Rates.
RAYNAL &Ü, [1866;
TERLING INSURANCE COM
ΒΑΤΑΝΙΑ,
AND FIRE INSUR
-
OF SAMARANG.
aving been appointed gkong for the above reprepared to grant Rinks on the usual SIEMSSEN & Co.
1, 1888.
by CHARLES A BRAMAN at No. 2 Wyndham ongkong
No. 1879 Just 16,
NOTICE,
COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA RITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.
FAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS STEAM FOR
SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALEE, ADEN, SUEZ,;
ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA,
MARSEILLES,
Also,
BOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS," AND CALCUTTA, A
THE Company's Steam-ship "TIGRE;")
Commandant ROUSSEAU, will leave this Port for the shove place with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE and FARGO, on THURSDAY, the 17th June, at Noon.
Cargo sud Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseliles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principa places of Europe.
Cargo will be received on board until 4 F.M. of the 16th, Spects and Parcele until 6.M. of the 16th. (Parcels are not to be sent on board they must be left at the Agency's Office.)
For. Particulars, regarding Freight and Passage, apply at the Company's office, Hongkong, CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.
O. BERTRAND, Principal Agent: Hongkong, May 28, 1889. 17jun
PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIR
COMPANY...
THROUGH U. 8. MAIL, LINE TO NEW YORK, LINE TO NEW YORK STEAMERS of this line will be despatol
Japan, China,
Great Republic
June 19.
July 19. August 10,
A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or bood same dato, connecting at Yokohama with aburo-named steaner.
Passengers ticketed through to California, Mexico, Central and South America, the Atlantic States, and to England or Franos, both via New York and lines from Pa Dema and Aspinwall.
Return tickets issued at a rednotion of 10% upon the whole amount for the round voyage:
Post-Office Notifications.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
place provided for the purpose, If the Payee bo unable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of Witness, who must sign his name, with his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Order.
For INDIA, EUROPE, &e.
Per La Compagnie des Servicos Mari tinics des Messageries Iniperiales Str. *TIGRE," on Thursday, the 17th Juge, at 11 AM. To and through the United Kington vis Marseilles, to France and other Continental Statos (ir alused mall to France); desire to receive payment in the Country in
9-Should the Fayes of a Money Ordák | 17:29 Baigun, Bingapore, Gallo, India, Aden, Reychelles, Rennidhi and Mau- Which the Order was issued, at some other riting huez and Alexandria after Office than that in which the Order was ori which no letter can be received ally drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Letters for Registration will be reetmaster of the Office in which it was *ceived until 10
-
to
done, the 17th drawn. oh case a new Order will be
Correspondence intended to be forward- which will be deducted from the amount of sued, the Commission chargeable-upon- ed by the vessels of the above compa- the new Order. nynust be superscribed per Message.e ries Imperiales Packet » »lii și Money Orders on any of the Money Order Olhos, in the United King- domi will be granted until 10 AM on the 17th June,
Fatimations.
NEW BOOK, Speculations of
The Old Philosopher'
LAU-Tazz."
Translated from the Chinese
EX "ÜHALMERA, A.M. Price $1.50. ALSO,
"The Origin of the Chinese" by the saine author Fries $1.
Apply at Altari TarE, CRAWFORD & CO. or The London Mission House, Hongkong, October 17, 1868,
SAYLE & Co.j. VICTORIA® EXCHANGE,
10.In the event of a Money Order be granted a written application from miscarrying or being lost, duplicate will the Payee, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an addi- tfonal Cominisalon) to the Office where the MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES MALL PAG-Uriginal Order is payable, part of a da
BBT "JAPAN,"
KINGDOM
For YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, HKD STATES & UNITED Per the United States Mail Parkat JAPAN," on SATURDAY, the 19th Tost., at 9 P.M. The Bates of Postage on Correspondence forwarded in each case be paid in advance, are as ful by this opportunity, which must lows, viz.
For Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States,
For Letters, 8 cents per half-ounce. For each Newspaper not exceeding
ounces, 2 cents.
ra Pachet of Books, 6 cents por
For a
4
sutices. For the
United Kingdom. For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce, For each Newspaper not exceeding 4
ounces, 4 centa, For a Packet of Books or Patterna, &
cenfi per 4 ounces, Correspondence addressed to Yokohama San Francisco and the United States must be superscribed per ",
"Japan," and that addressed to the United Kingdom not fully propaid will be sent via Suez,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster Getisral,
General Post Office, Hongkong, June 7, 1869.
jun19
It is hereby notified for general infonae tion that henceforward closed mails for the Unice and forwarded to London by the the Office
the Un ited States Mail Packets via San Frandeco. Correspondence intended to be forwarded by this route must be addressed viå ! San Francisco,"
Letters, Newspaper, Bookdaud Patterns, will be liable to the same rates of postage as those sent by the British Mail Packets vid Southampton via
For Letters, 24 cents par half-ounce. For each Nowspaper not exceeding otinces,
4 cents. For a packet of Books or Fatterns, 8 conte por 4 ounces.
·4
The Postage must in all cases be paid in advance; correspondence not fully prepaid will be sent via Buez.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong February í, 1869.
It is hereby notified that, under the au- thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the ist May last, Superintending, or First-Class Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future,
11Un the receipt of a similar applica tion, orders will be given to stop payment of Money Order, or to rener a lapsed
H Ở NGẵ Ô NG
·HAVE" "RECHIVED EX HAIL STEAMER.
Large assortment of MILLINERY, BONNETS, and, HATS, of the
Order. The additional Commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be presented with the application for a new latest fashions, Urdar.
error in the naine of the Bemitter or Payes Choice assortment of SILK, MUS-
19 But when it is desired that any
should be corrected or that the amount of
a Money Order should be repaid to the LIN, and GRENADINE, for Evrning Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should wear.
be renewed for payment in the Country In which the Order was originally drawn, application must be made to the Chief Money Order Office of such Country. This application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it have re- Commission will be deducted from the ference to s Lapsed Order, in which case the amount of the New Order. ·
13. Repayment whether of an original, be made to the remitter until it has been or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not ascertained that the advice has been can- called at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn,
14-Payment of an Order must be ob- tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Mouth after that in which it was drawi for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Order, will become lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second Cour mission, to be deducted from the amount of the Urder, will be charged) will become necessary.
15. If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calandar Biouth after that in which it was drawn, for instance, if drawn in January and not, paid before the end of the following January-ull claim to the Money will be forfeited, unloes, under pecalier circdistances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn think proper to allow it.
16.--After once paying a Money Order
by whomsoever presented, the paying Office will not be liable to any further claim. If
A ne assortment of new French FLOW
ERS, HEAD-DRESSES and FEATHERS.
A large assortment of new TRIM. MINGS and FRINGES in all colors.
Intimations.
Intimations.
WESE PILOTAGE Mastor or his deputies, it will be obligatory
SERVICE.
GENERAL REGULATIONS--
WITH LOCAL RULES
FOR THE
PORT OF SWATOW.
GENERAL REGULATION 1.
in registered Pitot Boats to convey from place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Customs or Harboar Master's Dapartments, with such stores as may be wanted for either Light-houses or Light ships
Every Lfconsed Pilot Boat shall pay a fee of Twenty Taels for renewal of Li- cense on the first of July each year.
-In case of a Pilot going off in um - registered Bost, he will be authorized to
1. Bye Laws and Loral Rulary the Pilot Boat Flag during the time he is on board; but no Pilot is authorised 1.—Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for to cruize in an unregistered Boat, without the better ordering of pilotage matters at special permission from the Barbour Mas the Potts are to be drawn up by the Har tor. bour Master in consultation with the Con-tered Boat making use of a Pilot Fisg, and The owner or hirer of any unregis auls and Chamber of Commerce, with whopi
ber
also it rests in the same way to fix the numot having a Licensed Pilot en board, shall of Pilots, tariff of charges, and define be prosecuted before the authorities to whow he is amenable, or whose Flag or the limits of the Pilotage ground.
national Ensign he has the right to uze.
5.-A registered Pilot Boat is not per mitted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when there prentice on board. is either a Licensed Pilat or certificated Ap
The number of Hilots for the Port of Swator shall be six.
3.-The Pilotage ground for the Part of Swatow shall be off Bill falet to the lower limit of the anchorage Aahchio Point.
4.+The rates of pilotage shall be as fol lows for all aired vessals between the limits of the Pilotage ground: steamers or sailing vessels, $200 par foot English measurement To Harbour Pilot for Berthing or Unbarth ing, 50 cents per foot English measure
ment.
GENERAL REGULATION 1], II. Pilots-Individuals Eligible, The subjects, citizens or proteges of Treaty Powers shall, qually with Natives of Chius, and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies DOCKS
by the Board of Appointment, sub ject to the General Regulations now issued, and the Bye-Laws to be under them enforced at the several Ports respectively.
GENERAL REGULATION III.
of Appointment, hurt to be
constructed.
III.
The Board
....of. Appointment shall consist of the Harbour Master as President, the or a) Senior Pilot, and two persons whose names shall be drawn by lot, by the Har. bour Master, from a list prepared and pub Ladies' and Gentlemen's Kid GLOVES, lished by the Harbour biaster in consulta
tion with the Consuls and Chambers- in white and colors, all sizes.
Commerce.
Gentlemen's Drab Shell and Felt HATS.
Blue and Green GOSSAMERS, &c.
BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT,-
20, Foochow Road, Shanghai. Hongkong, Fabinary 3, 1869.
FOR SALE.
AT THE
CHINA MAIL" OFFICE,
THE following SETS of the "CH IN A PUNOH" can be obtained, stitched papes wappers, at the rate of 25 cents fer copy viz:-
4
No.
Price.
33
10. 16.
""
17
a.wrong payment; however, be made awing 11 sats complots from 11. to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Office, the Postmaster General of the Country or Colony in which tho negli- gence occurs will, if he see fit, require the 3, Ufoer in fault to make good the losa.
17.-No Money Order will be paid unleas the advice has been previously received.
18.-Additional Rules for greater seou
‚
GENERAL REGULATION IX Flags to be exhibited on arrival. When nearing the anchorage the Pilot shall cause to be exhibited
A Red and White Flag (No. 3), it the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Port.
Blue and White Flag (No. 2), if from any Foreign Port
A Yellow and Blue (No, 10), if the vessel is in ballast,
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the vessel bas gunpowder or other combustibles on board.
GENERAL REGULATION X. Harbour Pilots: Fessels in Harbour, Berthing, do. 1.The duties of the Harbour Pilot, where such exists, will be to take charge of Yessels at the outer limit of the anchorage, berth them in accordance with the orders received from the Harbour Master's De periment, take charge of vessels shifting berth, going in and out of dock, or to and from a wharf or out of the auchorage, and te saaist and report to the Harbour Master's Office
all matters concerning the abipping in Port,
and the conservancy of the river. harbour. 2. In berthing vessels the Harbour Mas
GENERAL REGULATION IV. Vacancies: how to be filled up. 1-Whooover there may be a vacancyter will, as far as possible, meet the wishes amnog the Pilets, it shall be duly notified in of Commanding Officers and Consignees; the loost prints; and eight days afterwards and the entrance, working or clearance of the Board of Appointment shall proceed to vessels taking berths not assigned to them, fill it up by a a competitive examination.
Bhali bs stopped by the Customs until the Harbour Master's orders are complied with.
The Board may refuso to admit to the examination any one who, having ones beer &
Licensed Pilot, has had his License withdranh, and also any candidate, who is unable
to procure Consular Certificates as to Character, &c.
3-The examination
ination shall be public and gratuitous, and the vacancies shall be given
9.-Vessels are to noor in accordance with orders received from the Harbour Master, and they are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4.-The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable to the Harbour Master are as follows:
Shifting a vasel's berth; taking a vessel $10, in
fall
to the most competent amung the candito or from a heaving down Holk;
without distinction of nationality, <inten provided always the competency of the first on the list be not relative but absolute.
4—The Conqul concerned may in person, or by deputy, be present and take part in the exa
examination of candidates,
5. The majority of the votes of the of the Board shall decide the members A 49.00 admission of candidates for Vilote La- $8.50.conses, such member having one pots in the $3.25. Ballot, but in the absence of the Consal Also a few separate copies of Nos.1, 2 conversed the Barbour Master shall have a
11, 12, 18, 16, 17, and from 19 to 24. casting vote.
C. A. SAINT.
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT.
Connections are made at Panama witi. Steam Lines upon the West Coast of Cen- tral and South America, at Aspinwall with e "Royal West India Mail Line," "Went ladia and Pacific Steam-ship Company," (Limited) and the French Transatlantic Company." And, at New York, with the various lines to Europe Tickets issued
rity against fraud, and for the better work- Hon. W. KESWICK, FORBES, Keq. for the following Steam-ship Lines; Imust be entitled to the same privileges in regarding of the system generally will be made National, General Transatlantic Co., New to Letters sent by or addressed to them on as occasion may require.
JOHN DENT, B. G. THOMSETT, York and Havre Stein-ship Lo., New York their own private affairs as are at present
Esq., B... and Bromen Steam-ship Co., and North German Lloyds.
Favorable arrangements have been male
for through passengers and freight to Ame rica, from Calcutta, Penang and Singaporn, and, from Swatow, Amug and Foochow.
Through Bill of Lading given for Ports of Mexico and on the West Coast of Cen trad and Bouth Amories to as far as Valpa- raise, to New York, Liverpool, Southampton and Bt. Nazairo, France.
Freight to United States payable in ad- Tance in Mexican Dollars, or on delivery in American Gold Coin with 8 per cent ad ditional, at shipper's option.
For further information, apply at the Agency of the Company, Praya West
GEO, E. LANE,
Agent.
Hongkong, February 10, 1860, ›
Pos: Omice Notifications.
1. It is hereby notified for general in- formation that, the Contract between the Government of Manritive and the Union
enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the 19-Should it appear that Money Ordera. Army; and all
Trustees.
Army Schoolmistresses will are used by mercantile men, or others, Hon, H. B. Cia, be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all either in the United Kingdom or at Hong. J. HELLAND, K. but the First-Class now are) to the same kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the G. HEARD, Bay. privileges, in regard to their Letters, are transmission of large sums of money, the W. LEMANN, Esq. enjoyed by tlon-commissioned Officers and British or Colonial Post Office, as the case arivate Soldiers,
F. W. MITCHELL, Fostinaler Generut,
General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 1868.
HE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN,”
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS.
(From the "Straits Times," July 27, 1868.)
Some time ago we had occasion to remark upon the progress that Literature as repre- sentod by the Freas had made and was making in the East, and our attention has GENERAL
squiu been called to the sabject by the re Pilots' Licenses; by whom to be issued.
cript
of o a Hongkong publication which 1-Pilota' Licenses ehall be issued by the deserves some notice and which we have Goanmissioner of Customs in the name and mach pleasure in introducing to the know-
REGULATION V
une
on behalf of the Chinese Government; Liledge of our readera. We allude to Notes censes issued to Filota not being natives
Queries
074 Ching and
and Japan, published of China, shall subsequently bo vised and monthly by Mr Saint, the registered at the Consulate concerned. China Mail newspaper, proprietor of the publication Every Licensed Pilot shall be given 19 well printed on good paper, and in size
copy of the General
and afiape is very like its
known name- Regulations Local Rules and shall produce the same mine containing very curious and useful sake and.
or prototype at home,
and is equally a as well as his License
when required. information 3.-On the first of July each year every
regarding
the language, liters- manners and customs of the
Directors
W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SASSOON, Esq.
Rev. W... BEACH.
Tauls for the renewal of his License.
GENERAL REGULATION V1. Apprentice Pilots;
how to be taken,
| 1, J. MUHKAY, H.D. Committee of Management. Don, W. Kwok, Chairman.. MACAULAY, Esq. G. THOMSETT, G. J. HELLAND, Esq. Esq., RN.
may be, will consider the propriety of in- ereasing the Commission, and will exorciso the power of wholly suspending for a time. the issue of Money Orders.
By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office,. Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868..
is notified amounts not
ture,
Pilot shall pay the suru of Ten Haikwan chinese and in a lean degree of the Japans58.
It says a good deal for the extent nul- acability of the
the footing of Europeans in
1-It shall be allowable for each Licensed China, that such a publications this Pilot to take an apprentice, for whom he should be established and conducted with shall be responsible; on tha
LONATIONS of Books, Ferindicale, News Pilota, the Harbour Mastercation of apparently successful vigour.
papers, Clothes, &c., hankfully received.:
be most
A. OVERBURY, Superintendent. Hongkong, October 29, 1868. Published weekly.Subscription (Erelu-
in advance.
forward Money Orders will be issued
1.On the lat October next, and thence- this Office and at the Agencies thereof at at
Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for excusding £10, at the rate of Exchange visions of art that, under the pro- sive of postage) Tis. 12 per annum; payable
natel Current for Each Mail, and charged with the 7th May, the Postage on a Letter not Commission according to thu fulluring in Hongkong or at any of the Ports in half-an-onuce in weight posted Vente. in
China and Japan addressed to Egypt, or posted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong or any of the Ports in China and Japan, and conveyed in the Mails by British Packet, is reduced from Twenty-four Cents to Twelve
Scale, viz. :-
73
For sums not exceeling £2,.............. 12 Above £2 and not axcooding £ 5,....24 ·
£7.42, £7
£10,....48 2.No Money Order to include a frac-Cents. tional part of a 'Peany.
وو
.
3.-Orders drawn in the United King-
For Letters exceeding half-an-ounce in
Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance. of Maila once & Month between Ceylon and Mauritius, and between Mauritius and dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko-weight further rate of Twelve Cents for Natal, having terminated, the correspon- hamna, will be paid at the rate of Exchange each half dunes is chargeable. dence for Mauritius will be forwarded from at which Money Orders are being issued at
Prepayment of the Postage Is compulsory this Office in the Mail for Aden, from the time of their presentation,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.”" General Post Office, Hongkong, July 15, 1808.
whence it will be nont to its destination by --Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700
the French Mail Packets leaving Aden for Money Order Offices in the United King- Rennion and Mauritius on the 23rd of each dom, shewing the Counties in which they are situated, are hung up for public refer-
Mouth.
2. No alteration has been made in the ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai tals of Postage on correspondence ‘ad- | and Yokohama. dressed to Mauritius
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
AND
LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND.
PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA
AND JAPAN,
THE Gazette isa General Weekly Newspe- per, containing Officially Revised Reports of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular Courts, Police Cases, mid Proceedings in Bankruptcy Original Articles; Notes and Mestings; News of the Week, Commercial Queries on Legal points; Reports of Publis Summary, de., &c.
Advertisensents will be charged Tis. 1 per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 ots per 10 lines, for each aubrequent inser
Shanghai, January, 1867.
tion.
ster will supply Ap- prentices with special certificates.
2-When the circumstances of the Fort appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorize apprentices to set tempora rily and within certain limite, ne Pilots provided they have received certificates of
competency from the Board of Appoint
ment.
The publication is altogether a very in tercaling one, and wishing it every success, we commend it to the attention and support of our readers,
(From the "Friend of India," June 4, 1868.)
We acknowledge with thanks the
of the numbers for the current recept "Notes and Queries," a most deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr N. B. Dennys,
whose Treaty Ports of China and Japan ara
are so well known. From the
GENERAL REGULATION VII Licensed Pilots; to whom subordinated, Unlicensed Piloting, de. L-Licensed Pilots way carry on their baates attached to the "Notes" we can ace business either singly or in Companies, that the contributors include some the They must pay due respect to the wishes best Chinese scholars in the East
Ita iz and instructions of the Harbour Master, terest is not confined to China, and it will under whore order and control they are be of valuable assistance to all scholars, who placed, and who is invested with power to have directed their attention towards the suspend or dismiss, subject to an appeal to anbject of Buddhism and its literature, and the Consul concerned; when the Pilot is a generally to all who are interested in ori- Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged within ental antiquities. It deserves to be buttez three days.
kuown in India Consular punishment has been inflicted, er
21 guilty of any misconduct for which (From the "London Examiner," May
16, 1868.) it proved to have committed any offence against Rerenne Laws, the individuai This really useful volume ("Treaty Forts concerned may be suspended or dismissed of China and Japan" is intended as a by the Harbour Master, subject to an arguide for travellers and residents in China peal to his Cousul. If a Foreigner, the and Japan, and as a book of reference for appeal lodging without a Licener,
I to be lodged within three days. mercantile men generally. It contains an account, historical and political, of all the shall be onbject to prosecution. Before his open ports of these countries, together with the Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, the
own authorities, who will deal with the Foking, Vedo, Hongkong, and Macao. It spondence for those Colonies, unless the Eemitter and the Payee; If the Remit confirmed by His Excellency SIE RICHARD
to be the most effinavious remedy Country Any Pilot lending his License to Mr N: B. Denugs; and the elaborate maps Steamers plying between Hongkong, the known to the world. No preparation ie statother will be prosseded against and dealt Londen at the following rates of Postage, usual designation of such firm, such as classed as "Indian Mail Packets," and that as this fine and invigorating I
his License. which must be paid in advance, viz:-
ing It medicine. "Baring Brothers" will sustice; but the Upon Letters sent by way
inere tertú Mesars, such as Messis Ri-prepayment of the Postage on ordinary is particularly adapted to the constitution
so unlicensed person to pilot his vessel Letters however which may be posted its effects in all diseases peculiar to
females, ing under a title which does not consist of insufficiently paid will be charged as wholly while those who are attenuated by the de. Hundred Taels by the authorities to the names of the persons composing it, such unpaid.
bilitating effects of the stove climates will jurisdiction he is stuenable, Carron Co." is inadroissible.
The rate of Postage on Letters is 8 find in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta 6.The Remitter on stating that the Orgents for each balf-ounos, or fraction of liman whereby they may insure a restrita- der is to be paid only through a Bank, to half an ounce.
tion to robust health. South
have the option of giving or withdrawing 3-Letters for registration must be pre under 4 the name of the Pares; in such case, the pait with the full amount of Portage at 8 os, 20 4 oz not ex- Order will be crossed in the same way that canta for each half ounce, and 12 cents in us intenta, above on andrey Cheques are commonly crossed when they addition for the registration fee on each
́are intended to be paid through à Bank.
3. As the communication with Natul and
1.It is hereby notified that under ar- of the Post Office of India which have been
5.Applicanta for Money Orders must rangements made by the Director General! HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least
the initial of one Christian name, both of
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
with whi
marked to be forwarded by Private Ship, tar or Payes be a Feer or a Biskop, his oras MacNNELL, the fast Opin I8 Medicine is universally admitted offender in accordance with the Laws of his has been carefully compiled and edited by will, in future, he sent in the Malls for dinary title will be sufficient, if a firm the Straits and Calcatta will henceforward bei suitable to the climates of ludia and Chinwith in the same way, in addition to forfeit i confhance its value. ***
Any Commanding Officer expl the more prominent portions of the chapter of Southampton,.... 48 oënia each 0% vington," or the name of a Company to Letters forwarded by them will be optional. of European ladies, it is never failing in will be liable to be fined in the sum of Orë.
When sent by way of
Marseilles,
Newspaper via Southam
pton,... Newspaper
VIA Mareil-
Book Pockets pid
smpton,
additional 8 oz.
.10
Book Fackets via Marseilles, 14 centa under 4 oz.; 28 cents above for and not exceeding 8 Dz; and 28 ceus for every additional 8 ounces,
F. W. MITONELL, Postmaster General
Oneral Post Office, Hongkong, Pth September, 1808,
7.- When an Order is presented through a Bank, a receipt by any person will be suf- ficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Bank, and be presented by some Person known to be in the employ of angh Bank.
8.--The signature of the Payee of a Mo I ney Order to be affised to the Order in the
Letter, irrespective of its weight.
as it
suploying
whose
which the work abounds, We have thus given in ontline some of devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the whole
volume. Other chapters treating of Macao,
Ningpo, Shanghae, and
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of the treaty ports, the rema obly anumerate. GENERAL REGULATION VIII.
The pages describing the cap Peking,
are so interesting, and Pilot Boats: Regulations to be observal.
capital, contain so much that is new to European 1Pilot Boata shall be registered with readers respecting its history, public buil their crews at the Harbour Master's Office, dings, and general characteristics, that we where each bost will be given & certificate would fajn transfer theus to our columus. produced any remedy that can be compared Boat shall, with the uniuber, be legibly perial City and neighbourhood, gives us au The science of Mettions has never before and number. The words Licensed Pilot A completa and intelligible plan of the In to this wonderful Ointment, as is cures painted at the stern, and on the head of the accurate notion of the relative position of
streets, and places.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.
and the In
4.Newspapers and Prices Current muat after all other meats bave fuflert, all; Mainsail; and a Bag, of which the upper 125 Tactory chapter to the notices 5-Book Packets and Packets of Pat.wounds, sores, ulcers, and also the most horizontal half shall be register of the Treaty Ports of Japan will be found
be prepaid at the rate of 2 cents each.
inveterato skin diseases peculiar to the oli lewer green, shall be flown. toms must be prepaid, at the rate of 6 centemates of India and China. It is the true ed Pilot Boats shall deposit their national for Bach four ounces.
snetinet bistory of that Empire, together friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as car papers with their Consul or the Customs with remarks on its government, geography, F. W. MITCHELL, tain old sores can be removed by it that they shall be at liberty to more freely and limits, which will be found particularly Postmaster Generali cannot be conquered by any other treat within the limits of the Port and Pilotage interesting as throwing a considerable light General Post Office,
ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on a part of the world a long entirely, and Hongkong, 11th May, 1880.
tf dues. On the requisition of the Barbour will comparatively, unknown to Europespa
ment.
Hongkong, February 1, 1867.