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1868.
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received extend- THE ROYAL INAUR 5 are now authorised to
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Company of Liverpool. 17, 1864,
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Intimations. NEW BOOK,
HE Speculations of
The Old Philosopher
LAU-Tare." Translated from the Chinese
HY
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Money Ordern on any of the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom will be granted until 6 P. M. on the 23rd Instant
FW MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong,
June 18, 1809."
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ertained that the advice has been can
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riginally drewni
Intimations.
intimations.
CHINESE PILOTAGE on registered Plot Boats to boobligatory
SERVICE.
GENERAL REGULATIONS WITH LOCAL RULES FOR THE
PORT OF SWATOW.
1-Laws and Locht Kule
GENERAL REGULATION I
convey from place to place within the limits, employén balenging to either Customs or Harbour Master's Departments, with such stores as may be wanted for either Light houses or Light-ships.
2-Every Licensed Pilot Boat shall pay a fea of Twenty Taels for renewal of LA- the first of July each your.
censo on
3.In case of a Pilot going off in an Un- registered Boat, be will be authorized to carry the Pilot Boat Flag during the time he is on board but no Pilot is authorised 1.-Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for
to cruise in an euregistered Beat; without the better ordering of pilotage matters at special permission from the Harbour Mag- the Parts are to be drawn up by the Har- bour Master in consultation with the Con-tered Boat making use of a Pilot Flag, and 4-The owner or birer of any unregis sula and Chamber of Commerce, with whom not having a Licensed Filot on board, alall also it rests in the same way to fix the numbe prosecuted before the authorities.to bor of Pilots, tariff of chargos, and define whom he is amenable, or whose Flag or this limits of the Pilotage ground.
the lower
The number of Pilots for the Port of Swatow shall be hix.
3-The Pilotage ground for the Fort of
be off Bill Inlet Swatow shall be limit of the arichorage balchio Point.
4.The rates of pilotage shall be as fol lows for all sized vessels between the limits the Pilotage ground: steamers or sali vessels, $2.50 per foot English measurement. To Harbour Filot for Berthing or Unberth. ing, 50 cents per foot English measure tuent
of
GENERAL REGULATION II.
er.
national Ensign he has the right to use.
A registered Pilot Boat is not por- mitted to fly the Filot Flag, save when there is either, a Licensed Pilot or certificated Ap- prentice on board,
GENERAL REGULATION IX. Plags to be exhibited on arrival, shall cause to be exhibited-
When nearing the anchorage the Pilot
A Red and White Flag (No. 3), if the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Porta
Flag (No. 2), if from
A Blue and
any Foreign Port..
A Yellow and Blue (No. 10), if the vessel
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the veMIE)
*** II. Pilots-Individuals Eligible. The subjecta, citizens or proteges of Treaty Fowersshail, equally with Natives of Ching,in in ballast and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies has gunpowder or ether combustibles on
and the Bye-Laws to be under them enforced occur, by the Board of Appointmart sub-board. ject to the General Regulations now issued,
GENERAL REGULATION X. Harbour Pilote Vessels in Harbour, at the several Porte respectively.
Berthing, de GENERAL REQULATION III.
III Board of Appointment, hot to be constructed,
1.The duties of the Harbour Pilot, where such existe, will be to take charge of vessels at the outer limit of the anchorage,
The Board of Appointment shall consist borth them in accordance with the orders
of the Harbour Master as President, the received from the Harbour Master's Des
or 6) Senior Pilot, and two persons whose partment, take charge of vessels shifting
GENERAL REGULATION IV. Vacancies: how to be filled up. 1.-Whenever there may be a vacancy.
amnog the Pilots, it shall be duly notified in the local prints and sight days afterwards
ter
and
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Kid GLOVES, names shall be drawn by lot, by the Harberth, going in and out of dock, or to and
Master, from a list prepared and pube from a wharf or out of the anchorage, lised by the Harbour, buaster in censults to assist and report to the Harbour Master's tion with the Cousuls and Chambers of Office all matters concerning the shipping Commerce
in Port, and the conservancy of the river or bachpur, ak
9.In berthing vessels the Harbour Mas-
will, as far a of Commanding Desele, meet the wishes
and Consignees and the the Board of Appointment shall proceed to vessels taking be working or clearance
bertha not assigned to them, fill it up by a competitive examination.
shall be stopped by the Castoma until the The Board
to admit to Harbour Master'a orders are complied with. may refore the examination any one who, having one
3. Viceagis been a Licensed Pilot, has had his License with urders required from the Harbour to: moor in accordance withdrawn, and also any candidsta whois Master, and they are not unable to procure Consular Certi
the anchorage without his permission.
to remove from to Character, de
The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable 3.The examination shall be public and to the Harbour Master are as follows gratuitous,
Vacancies shall be given
Shifting a vessel's berth; taking a vesael to the most chupetent among the caudito or from a hearing down. Hulle; $10, in dates without distinction
full. of nationality, ays the competency of this first provided always on the list be not relative but absolute. $3.504 The Consul concorned may in person, $2.50 or be take part in
presentes $2.26. the
Amination of o
FOR SALE
AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE,
HE following SETS of the "CHIN A THE
FUNGH" can be obtained stitied in paper wrappers, at the rate of cats for copy viz:-
No. Price
11 acts complete from 11.
4
!!
**
16. 18.
..
tha
of the votes of the
arg
TBE "TREATY PORTS OF CHINA
JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN,
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS,
tral and South Amerids, at Aspinwall with. It is hereby notified for general informa-14. Payment of an Order must be ob3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17; and from 19 to 24, ent Board shall decide the (From the "Straits Times," July 27, 1868.).
Office and forwarded to London by the Un- ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco
Correspondence intended to be forwarded by the oute must to addressed via gan
the "Royal West India Mail Line," West son that henceforward closed mails for the India and Pacific Steam-ship Company United Kindom will be made up at this (Limited) and the "French Transatlantic Company! And, at New York, with the various lines to
to Europo
Tickets issued man, for the following Steam-ship Linge: Inman, National General Transatlantic Co., Now York and Barze Steam-ship Oo, New York And Brengun Stessi-ship Co., and North German Lloyds
Favorable arra
have been made arrangements for through passengers and freight to Ame- rica, from Calentte, Penang and Singapore, and, from Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Through Billa of Lading given for Ports of Mexico and on the West Coast of Can-
tral and South Amerius to se far as Valps- fais, to New York, Liverpool, Southampton
t, Nazaire, France, - Bad
Freight to United States payable in ad- Vance in Mexican
or on delivery with 8 per cent ad- ditional, at shipper's option.
in American Gold s
Agency of
For further information, apply at the
the Company, Praya West.
GEO E LANE,
Agent. Hongkong, February 16, 1869,
KINGDOM.
Letters,
Francisco Newspapers, Booksand Patterns, will be liable to the same rates of postage 1.6 those sent by the British Mail Packētā via Routhampton via
For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce. For each Newspaper uos exceeding 4 ources, 4
COLLIS. Fors pauket o
tof Bocks or Patterns, 8 cents per 4 ounces.
The Postage must in all coses be paid in advance; correspondence not fully prepaid will be sent via Suez.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General
Post Office, Hongkong February 1, 1869.
1-16 á hereby notified that under ar- rangements, made by the Director General
tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which is
was drawn
Also a few separate copies & Nos.1, 2,
C. A. BAINT
for instance, if drawn in January, payment
SAILORS HOME, WEST POINT, oust be obtained before the end of Jalyp otherwise the Order will become lapsed,
Trustees, and a new Order (for which a second Can! Hou, W. KESWICK, FOXBES, Esq. of the Order, will be charged) will become mission, to be deducted from the amount JOHN DINT, necessary.
15-If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn, for instance if drawn in January and not paint before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar circumstances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn think proper to allow it.
*
П. G. Тяомакот,
Esq., 2.N. Directore
Hon. H. B. GIRE, G. J. HELLAND, ES. G. HEARD, Esg WLCMANN, Esq.
W.
W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SASSOON, Esq. Hey, W. R. BELOH JJ. MURKAY, H.D.
Committee of Management. MAGULAT, Esq. H. G. TROMSETT,
Hon. W. KESWICE, Chairman, ..J. HELLAND, E. Beg, H.N,
of the admission of candidates for Pilots' Li- canses, each member having one vote in the Ballot but in the shisence of the Consul canborned the Harbour Master shall have a
V
Some time ago we had occasion to remark upon the progress that Literature as repre- sented by the Press had mada and was making in the East, and our attention haa. again bean called to the subject by the re-
· Fate License; by tohom to be issued.
of a Hongkong publication which 14-Pilots' Licenses shall be issued by the deserves some notice and which we have Commissioner
to the know- of our ledge
SHE GENERAL REGULATION
Pileds? Ties
cerpe
of Customs in the name and much pleasure in introduce to Voter
-On: behalf of the Chinese Government E censes issued to Pilots not being natives
on tlima
and Querer readers e
and Japan, published of China shall subsequently be Freed and monthly by Mr Saint, the registered at the Consulate concured.
and China Mail newspaper
proprietor of the This publication Licensed Pilot shall be given is well printed on good paper, and in size Every printed copy of the General Regulations and shape is very like its well-known name- sake or prototype at home, and is equally a mine containing very curious and useful information
tion regarding the language, litera
· B
well a
and Local Rules and shall produce the same as his License when required. On the first of July each year every
肉
3-Up
Taels for the
ONATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News-Pilot
papers, Clothes, o, will he most hankfully received.
A. OVERBURY, Superintendent. Hongkong, October 29, 1868.
renewal of his License.
shall pay the sum of Teu Haikwanture, history, manure and customs of the Chinese and in a less degree of the Japanese. It says a good deal for the extent and stability of the footing of Europeans in sliculd be established and conducted with China, that such a publication as this
GENERAL REGULATION VI Apprentice Pilnts; how to be taken.
1. It shall bealionable for each Licens shall be responsible; on the
Pilot to take an apprentice, for whom he successiul vigour.
Ap
publication is altogether a very in- tereating one, and wishing it every success,
our reagiers.
of the Post Office of India which have been genee oopan wil if he see fit, require the sive of postage) 16, 12 per annum; payable Prentices with special cer of the Port we commend it to the attention and support
confirmed by His Excellency, SIE RICHARD Gray - MACDONNELL, the fast Opion Post-Olice Notifications. Steamers plying between Hongkong, the Straits and Calcula will benceforward be MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES MAIL PAC olsasor an Indian Mail Packets," and that
KET "JAPAN,” -
of the Postage on ordinary For YOKOHAMA,
FRANCISCO, SAN
prepayment
forwarded -Letters
by them will be optional, THE UNITED STATES & UNITED Letters however which may be posted insuficiently paid will be charged as wholly Per the United States Mait Packet unpaid.fedo
JAPAN," on SATURDAY, theThe rate of Postage on Letters is
A conts for each half-omuce, or fraction of 19th Inst., at 2 P.M.) The Kates of Postage on Correspondence half an ounce. forwarded by this opportunity, which muat in each case be paid in advance, are as ful- paid with the full amount of Postage at
8-Letters for registration must be pro- JOWA, VIZ:-
ponts for each half ounce, and 12 cents in For Yokohama, San Francisco and the addition for the registration fee on each
United Bater
Letter, irrespectivo of its weight...
For Letters, 8 cents per half-aubos. For each Newspaper not soooding &
ounces, 2 conte - S
For a Packet of Books, & cents per 4
oun 069.
For the United Kingdom.
';
4.- Newspapere and Prices Current inpat he prepaid at the rate of 2 cents each.
5-Book Packats and Packete of Fat- terus must be prepaid, at the rate of 6 cents for each four ounces.
F... W. MITCHELL. Postmaster General. General Post Offico, Hongkong, Lith May, 1889,
For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce.F For each Newspaper not exceeding
DURO 4 cents,
For a Packet of Books or Patterns, 8.
conta per 4 cups, Correspondence addressed to Tokohama, San Francisco and the United States must be superscribed per "Japan," and that addressed to the United Kingdom bot fully prepaid will be sent via Suex.
KWAMITCHELL, Postmaster General.
Junie
General Post-Office, Hongkong, June 1889.
Ju
It is hereby notified that, under the au- thority of a Treasury Varrant dated the lat Hay last, Superintending, or First-Class Schoolmasters in the Army will; in future, be entitled to the same privileges in regard Leitere sent by or addressed to them of their own private affaire as are at present
16. After once paying & Money Order by whomsoever presented, the paying Office will not be liable to any further claim. If a wrong payment, however; be made owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Office, the Postmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negli-
Offlour in fault to make good the loss.
17 No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously roosired.
18-Additional Rules for greater soc rity against fraud, and for the better work ing of the system generally will be made an occasion may require.
19.--Should it appear that Money Orders
are used by mercantile men, or others
in advance.
will supply Published weekly. Subscription (Exclu-Pilots, the Harbour Master application of
1 certificates. 2-When the cirenmstances appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorize apprentices to set tempóra rily and within cartsin limita, as Pilots provided they have received certificates of competeney from the Board of Appoint ment.
AND
of
(From the "Friend of Inutia," June 4, 1868.)
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the numliers for the current year of "Notes and Queries," a most deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr N, B. Dy are so well known. From the whose Treaty Ports of China
atui
that the
tre can see
the Its in-
SUPREME COURT. AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA
GENERAL REGULATION VII. AND JAPAN. THE izzette is a General Weekly Newspa-
Licenced Pilots; to whom subordinated, Oplicensed Piloting, diún per,containing Officially Kevised Reports either in the United Kingdom or at Houg of Cases heard at the Supreme and Commuter 1-Licensed Pilota may carry on their names attached to the "Notes" kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the Courts, Police Cazen, and Proceedings in They must pay due respect to the wishes best
Bither
singly or in Companies best Chinese scholars in the transmission of large sums of money, the Bankruptey; Original Articles; Notes and and instructions of the Barbour Mister, terest is not confined to China, and contributors include some
Esat. British or Colonial Post Office, as the quee Quarian on
it will cressing the Commission, and will exercise Summary, de, &c. may be, will consider the propriety of instings; News fine eposts of Public under whose order and control they are be of valuable assistance to all scholars, who
of the Week, Commercial the power of wholly suspending for a time.
placed, and who is invested with power to have directed their attention towards the the issue of Money Orders
Advertisements will be charged Th. 1.
suspend or dismiss, subject to an appeal to subject of Buddhism and its literature, and the Consul
the appeal to cts, por 10 lines, for saub subsequent inserted guilty of any misconduct for which
to be lodged within ental antiquities. It deserves to be better
known in India. days
(From the "London Examiner," May Shanghai, January, 1867.
Consular punishment has been inflicted; ar
16, 1868.) if proved to have comunitted any offence egaiust
Bevenue Laws, the individual concerned may be suspended or dismissed
By Command,
.
F. W. MITORELL, Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
is
I hereby notifies for general informa.
tion that honeforward the Postage chargeable on Book and Packets of Patterna addressed to the United States of America
per
tion,
10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 Foreigner derned; when the Pilot is a generally to sil who are interested in ori-
Docks.
THE UNION DOCK COMPANY OF
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA, LIMITED
Tois really useful volume "Treaty Ports
of China and Japan" is intended as a
an
Lia the lat October next, and then transmitted via the United Kingdom wiVessels, to their Establishment at Bong") Okenger in accordance with the Laws of his Mr N. B. Denny and the elaborate Draps
forward Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama on all the honey Order Offices in the United Kingdom or Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts nut exceeding £10/ at the rate of Exchange Current for Kash Mail, and charged with Commission, according to the following Conts, For some not
12 exceeding Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5,....
£5.
£7,42 £10,48 3.-No Money Order to include a frac tional part of a Penny
#
3.--Orders drawn in the United King
njoyed by Commissioned Offiours in the dom opon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko- army and all Army. Behoelmistresses will bama, will be paid at the rate of Erchange
entitled (as Army Boboosters of all at which Money Orders are being issued at
the time of their presentation.
but the First-Class now are) to the same phitileges, in regard to their Letters, are jayed by non-commissioned Officers and divate Soldiers,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office Hongkong, July 31, 1869,
4-Alphabetical Lists of over 8,700 Money Order Office in the United King-
be as follows, viz-
SOUTHAMPTON, Under 4 ounce,
12 cents. Above 4 ounce and not ex--
ceeding 8 ounce,
24 Above 8 ounce and not ex-
oeeding 13 ounce,
86
.-
Above 19 ounce and not ex-
ceeding 16 ounces,-
48
"
For every additional 4 ox., 12
Via Manarities. Under 4 ounce, * Above 4 ounce and nut ax.
Deeding Bounce,
18.centes
Abara 8 ounce and not ux-
cosding 12 ounce
Above 12 ounce and not en
ceeding 16 ounce,
64
::9)
For every additional 4 or 16 Propayment of the Postage is compulsory
dom, showing the Counties in which they in esch case. are situated, are hang up for public refer ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai and Yokohama
B-Applicants for Money Ordem must |
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General Port Office, Hongkong, June 18, 1908,
to
by the Harbour, Master, subject to an a guide for travellers and residents in China peal to bis Consul If a Foreigner, the and Japan, and as a book of reference for appeal lodged within three. days.
mercantile men generally. It contains E Company call the attention of Ship Any ons piloting without a license, acent, historical and political, all the Owners, Consignees and Masters of shall be inject to prosecution before his open ports of these countries, together with
own authorities, who will deal with the Puking Tedo,
Hongkong, and Macno, It. kong and Whampoa, for the DOCKING
has been carefully and REPAIRING, of Vessels of all classes, Vountry. Any Pilot lending bis License and pials, with which the work abonnda
compiled and edited by At Hongkong the Company have the with in the same way, in addition to forfeit
another
will be
be proceeded
against and dealt only Dook
in the harbour--a Granite
enhance its vakte. considerably Dock, solidly built, and if dispersions to
We have thus given in outline some of mg bis License, admit Ships of 360 fest in length, and an unlicensed person to pilot bis vel whole volume. Other chapters treating of
Any Commanding Officer employing devoted to Canton.
the more prominent portions of the chapter drawing 4 feet of water.
specimen of the Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose the remainder of the treaty porta, we can will be liable to be fined in the sum of One Macao, Formoes, Ningpe, Shanghae, and jurisdiction he is amenable
only enumerate The pages describing Peking, the capital, are so interesting, and Pilot Boats: Regulations to be observed. contain so much that is new to European 1Pilot Boats shall be registered with readers respecting its
Public buil
Attached to it there are Shipwright, Blacksmiths, Boiler-makers and Machinery works, and everything necessary for the Bepairs of Bailing Vessels or Steamers.
The Company have also opened a Ship
by the aide of the Hongkong Dock, and are ready to contract for the construe tion of Steamers or Sailing Vessels of any
Fice.
"GENERAL REGULATION VIII.
and number. The words.
hair urvive at the Harbour Master'a Difice, flings, and general characteristics, that we where each boat will be given a certificate would fain transfer them to our columns.
Idoated Pilot A cou
complete and
and neighbourhood, gives us aff accurate notion of the relative position of its divisions, streets, and places,"
At Whampoa the Company will take Boat shall, with the number, be legibly perial City a intelligible plan of the Ims
Ships at reduced rates.
The Steani Tug "LITTLE ORPHAN" yau be augaged to tow Vessels to sea, or barth them, at reasonable rates. For particulars, apply to -- -- -
RUB. S. WALKER Secretary, Company's Office, Queen's Road, Corner of Ice House Lape.
Hongkong, April 8, 1860,
painted at the Mainsail; and
at the stern, and on the bead of the horizontal balf shall be yellow, and the
flags of which the
upper lower green, shall be flown Bach register ed Pilot Boats shall deposit their national papers with their Consul or the Customs within the limits of the Pert and Pilotage they shall be at liberty to move freely ground, and alall be exempt from Tonnage dpow. Ou the requisition of the Barbour
In the introductory chapter to the notices of the Treaty forts of Japan wil be found muccinct history of that Empire, together with remarks on ita government, geography, intaresting as throwing a considerable light and limits, which will be found particularly a part of the world so long entirely, and still comparatively, unknown to Europesas,