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AUGUST 1869
Insurances.,
LONDON ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
raigned having been
appointed
of the above Corporation aro grant Fire and Marine Insur eul Terms aliafoegest bas HOLLIDAY, WISH & Co
December 28, 1887. erimuzces LE INSURANCE OFFJORDS erigued baving been Appointer for the above INSURANOR re prepared to scoops Araruar sate Polidies on máy free cha
la or Steamers, ton tan hingg ble in case of lost in Can GALOUTTA, BONRAY OF FIONDOR, ROB. S2 WALKER & CO.1 June 21 1864vides leg
ANOTICE.
INSURANCE COMPANY
wing Rates will be charged for short period Insurances
per cent s
jog One
Month
toeding
per cen
Tthis,
Months
coeding
per
The full
Monthey
BOB B
ints Nogal Insurg April, 1868
NOTICE.
Compo
signed having recurved ent
from THE ROYAL INBUR PANY, are now authorised gamat FIRE as follows
e first-class Building” ör
ad therein in Hongkong,
D $45,000,
ROB. 8. WALKER & D
Ineur: Company
adine 17, 1864,
REDUCTION
of
na tri ba
dram
BATEA OF PERQUE Foz IRE INSURANCE
ignod have as
already int their Circalar dated 14 De cefved authority from the Re HOVAL INSURANCE to Redtice the rate of Preminu 'afrugumstances, on PRIVATE 18.nd on FURNITURE and Er- fr contained.
DWSTLING HOUSER TORO Wa, the rate of Premium will riers per Cent, in place of Ce
Annum s hitherto charged
of Residences, so situsted, or ser-detached, the rate wil
duced to One half per Cent.
Annual Rates
for FIRE 18:
he various classes of Buildings atents will therefore romain ar
further
Toliser (removed Town) and their
- House (nimi-
ted) and their
per cent
per
hinta oues and
devient per cent,
a per special arrangement, OB, 3. WALKER & Co., mts Royal Insurance Company. November 9, 1860, 6 NSURANCE COMPANY AN FRANCISCO.
raigned, Agenta for the abo y' are propated to grant 'Poli- FIRE, on BUILDINGS and arrent rates.
RUSSELL & Co.
1867.
February
SEA & FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
signed having been appointed in Hongkong for the boye ANY are prepared to grant Po SEARIBKE, at currentrates.
RUSSELL & Co. April 1, 1866,
E INSURANCE ASSOCIA
N OF SHANGHAL
・
granted on Marine I iska to
of the world at current rates. to the usual brokerage, this returns to the assured Fifteen ifs yearly profits divided me et premium contributed,
RUSSELL & CO.
Secretaries
June 4, 1869.
INSURANCE COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO,
igned having been appointed Chias for the above Isavi are prepared to grant Poli Marine Blake, at the curren
FUSSELL & Co July 6, 1868.
ARANG SEA AND ORANCE COMPANY OF
SAMARANG.qui dit
righed having been appointed Macao for the above named prepared to grant Policies 18 Risks at the current Rated. RAYNAL & Co... ust 4, 1860, BOOSTERLING
ME.
TEN INSURANUP COM- FY OF BATAVIA, SENDE
SEA AND FIRE INSUR PANY OF SAMARANG,...
gned having been appointed Hongkong for the above ales are propared, to grafik
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JIEMSAAN & CO. --
August 1, 1866,
2
Kinned by OmintaS ABRAHAM
dietor, as No. 2, Wyndhath
ris, Hongkong
No 1935.-
—August 20, 1869.] au£2000)
Post-Office Notifications.
Ou the let Uctober next, and thenco- Forward Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for mounts not "exceeding || £10, at the rate of Exchange PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHILE Ourront for Each Mail, and charged with Odmission according to the following COMPANY.
Scale, va
Bar Cents, ZEROUGH U. 8. MALU LINE TO NEW YORK,
1.For'sume not exceeding £2. ...12. TEAMERS of this line will be despatch-
Above 2 and not exceeding £5,.... 24 ed as follows:-
£7.48 America
£10,....48
Japan, China,
Sept
18
Nov.
19.
Dec. 18.
Great Bepublic,
Steamer will leave Shanghai on or shone samo date, connecting at Yokohams
bove-named stepaner,
20
2 No Money. Order to inalude a frac- tional part of a Penny.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
Intimations,
PAYNE AND COMPANY, BELATER BUNGALOW,
Calcutta,
Intimations.
SERVICE
intimations.
NESE PILOTAGE Mester or his deputies, it will be obligatory on registered Pilot Boats to convey from place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Castors or Harbour Master's Departments, with such stores as
Le MBY wanted for either Light-houses of Light-ships.
It is hereby notified for general in- formation that, the Contract between the Government of Mauritius and the Union Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance of Mails once a Month between Ceylon and FTABLISHED, HALF A PERICÁN, GENERAL REGULATIONS Mauritius, and between Mauritius and Natal, having tormi
terminated, the dence for Mauritius will be forwarded from this Office in the Mail for Aden, from whence it will be sent to its destination by
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. DEPOT, FOR THE BALE OF THEIR EBNOWNED
Chutnies and Indian Condiments. Namely,
WITH LOCAL RULES
FOR THE
PORT
2.-Every Licensed Pilot Boat shall pay a fee of Twenty Taels for renewal of "Li- canse on the first of July each year.
the Fronok Mail Packets losing Amen (181 70.30K 900 Ft Mobase487 4880In case of a Pilot going off in an un-
Reunion and Mauriting on the 23rd of each Montb.
2. No alteration has been made in the rates of Postage on correspondence ad- dressed to Mauritius.
Major Gray's Chey
Perlid 20
}, Pidded Mangoes, 100 in barrel
נו
GENERAL REGULATION L
1. Bye-Laws and Local Rules. Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for
registered Boat, he will be authorized to carry the Pilot Boat Flag during the time is oli board; but no Pilot is authorised
he
special permission from the Harbour Maz to oruize in an unregistered Boat, without
the better ordering of pilotage matters si the Ports are to be drawn up by the Base
4.The owner or hirer of any unregis bour Master in consultation with the Contered Boat making use of a Pilot Flag, and suls and Chamber of Commeres, with whom not having a Licensed Pilot on board, shall also it reste in the same way to fix the nen-be proaccuted before the authorities to bor of Pilota, tariff of charges, and defino whom he is amenable, or whose Flag the limits of the Pilotage ground,
"J
11
Lucknow Chutneys
Cashmere Chutney
"
"Pindares Chutney
Por doz. qta: 90%
Col. Skinner's Chey
Per doz pts. 2181
20
Curry Paste
Curry Ponder
Per der qta 3 Meliigatawbee Faste) Per hud
Feroz pts. 20s
£25
Per lb.
da
"}
Tamarind Fish, 100 °
17
alices in barral, Tamarind Fish Rosegal aŋuare.
20%
Mangoe Fish Roses
bottle
78
Smoked Mangoo Fish,
12
2
100 in tins.
4
Chili Vinegar
Cayenne Pepperk
Per bottle Per bottles
3. As the communication with Natal and the Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, the correspondence for those Colonies, unless 73-Orders drawn in the United King-marked to be forwarded by Private Ship, do apon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Toko-will, in future, be sent in the Mails for hama will be paid at the rate of Exchange London at the following rates of Postage, at which Money Orders are being issued at which must be paid in advance, viz :--- Passengers bicketed through to California, the time of their presentation, mis
Upon Lettets sent by way Mexico, Central and South America, the Alphabetical Laste of over 3,700 of Southampton,..... It cents each toa Atlantic States, and to England or France, bosh ris New York and by lines from Pa- Money Order Offices in the United King- When sent by way of
don, Ahowing the Counties in which they Marseilles,....... is and Aspinwall? Return tickets issued at a redaction of are inated, are hung up for public refer-Newspaper via Sontham-
pton/ 10% upon the whole amount for the round ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai
Nowapapara via Marseil
and Yokohama.
octims are made at Panama FituApplicants for Money Orders must Nearm Lanes upon the West, Coast, of Opp: furnish, in full, the surasme, and, at least, tral sud South America, at Aspinwall with the intial of one Christian name, both of
***West the Bemitter and the the "Royal West India Mail
a Bishop, his or Inda and Pacific Steam-ship Company," fer or Payse be a payee the Remit
be suficient, if a firma, the (Limited) and the "French Transatlantic dinary title
Book
RY
við South-
ampton, ......... 10 tider £ oz, 20 couts above 4 oz and not 02 ceeding 8 62 and 20 cents for every additional 8 ozi
Company And, at New York, with the usual such firia, suchBook Packets via Marseilles, 14 cents!
Enes to Earope Tickets tuned Baring brothers will suffice; but the under 4; 28 cents above for and not for the following Steamship Lines: Inroan, mere term Mesare,, such as "Mesars, Ri- exceeding 8 oz.; and 28 cents for every National General Transatlantic Co., Newington," or the name of a Company trad: additional 8 ounces, York and Havre Steam-ship Co., New York ing under a tile which does not consist of 15 and Braman Steam-ship Co., and North the names of the persons composing it, such Gurma Lloydle.
Favorable arrangements have been made
Be* Carron Co,” is madmissible.
The Remitter on stating that the Or-
for through passengers and freight to Ame-der is to be paid only through a Bank, to cs, from Calentta, Panang and Singapore, have the option of giving or withdrawing And from Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
the name of the Payee; in anch case, the Through Bills of Luling given for Porta Order will be crossed in the same way that el bozoo and on the West Coat of Cen-Chequese are commonly crossed when they tral and South Ameries to as far as Valpa- are intended to be paid through a Bank, and 8t Nazaire, France.
nisu, to New York, Liverpool, Sonthampton 7.--When an Order is presented through Fraight to United States payable in ada Bank, a receipt by any person will be auf- Vanos in Mexican Dollars, or on delivery ficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Bank, and be in American Gold Coin with 8 per cent ad presented by some Person known to be in ditional, at shipper's option,
For further information, apply at the the employ of such Bank, Agency of the Company, Frayn West.
THOMAS A HARRIS, Agent. Hongkong, August 16, 1888.
Post-Office Notifications.
8.The signature of the Payee of a Mo ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the place provided for the purpose.
If the Payou be unable to write he must sign the receipt by making bis mark in the presence ofa Witnese, who must sign his name, with his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Order.
F. W MITCHELL, Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong,
3th September, 1868.
2.-The number of Pilots for the Port ofational Ensign he has the right to use. Swatow shall be six.
3-The Pilotage ground for the Port of Swatow ahall be off Bill Islet to the lower la limit of the anchorage Bahchio Peint. 23 4.-The rates of pilotage shall be as fol- 2lows for all sized vessels between the limits of the Pilotage ground: steamers or sailing JAMS AND JELLIES.
Vessels, $3.50 per foot English measurement -lb. tins 1-lb. tins. To Harbour Pilot for Berthing or Unberth ing, 50 cents per foot English measure GENERAL REQULATION IL
Guava Jelly *
Tippare Jam
Preserved Lazz
Perved Mangoes 560. ,,Fine Apple Jelly
+248
Frei've
Plakled L
Lames
#
25
Bael Preserve
Bengal Humps N. B.-Chatnies, Curry Powders, and Is 6d per lb. Pastes, shipped in bulk, to any quarior of
the Globe.
Payne and Co.,
is hereby notified for general informa- tion that henceforward the Postage chargeable on Book and Fackets of Patterns
Have always on hand a large Stock of addressed to the United States of America superior MANILA CIGARE, of all sizes, transmitted via the United Kingdom willama: Remittance, or referenos in Cal be as follows, viz
eutta, to accompany order.
For orders over £25, 20 par cent discount will be allowed, all Goods free on board in Calcutta.
oris: #
It is hereby notified,by order of His
Should the Payes of a Money Order Excellency Sir Richard Graves ManDoc- Bell, that henceforward, the rates of Posire to receive payment in the Country in fage chargeable on Packets, of Printed which the Order was issued, at some other Papers or Pasteran of light weight sont Office than that in which the Order was from Hongkong to the United Kingdom ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, from forwarded via Southampton, will be provided the Onomes in which it was Postmaster of the Office in it was drawn. In such case a new Order will, be Issued, the Commission chargeable upon cents.hich will be deducted froin the amount of
the now Order.
as follows!
For a Packet not orceeding one
-ounce in weight,
2
For a Packet above one and
not exceeding two burces... 4 cents. and of double these rates whch forwarded vit Marseilles.
Packets of greater weight than two unnos will remain subject to the same rates as are now chargeable, viz.
& cents for every four ondges when for warded vid Southampton, and
12 cents for every four ounces when for- warded via Marseilles.
This alteration will apply to Printed
10. In the event of a Money Order tuiscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will be granted on a written application from the Payee, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an addi- tional Commission) to the Office where the Original Order was payable. *
11. On the receipt of a similar applica tion, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Ordor, or to renes a lapsed Order. The additional Commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount presented with the application for a new Urder.
T
SOUTHAMPTON.
12 cents. Under 4 ounce, t Above 4 ounce and not ex-
ceeding 8 ounce, Above 8 ounce and not ex-
ceeding 12'outloe,
24
Above 19 ounce and not ex-
16 ounces,- ceeding For every additional 4 oz., 12
Via MARERILLES.
16 cents.
ounce and not sz
32
Under 4 ounce, Above
• ceeding & ounce,
Ahovo 8 ounce and not ex-
ceeding 12 ounce,-
• 48 Above 12 ounce and not ex-
ceeding
હું
64
For every additional 4 oz., 16 Prepayinent of the Postage is compulsory in each case.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,
General Post Office, Hongkong, June 18, 1868, .-
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE, The following Regulations for Street-
Chairs and Clair-Coolies, bear date Colo nial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1869.
There are two Classes of Street Chairs, Ordinary and Special.
All Street Chairs may carry persons who have engaged them up to any hour, but Ordinary Ohnics may not ply for leire after after midnight.
SAILORS HOME, WEST POINT.
Trustees.
Hou, W. KESWIUK,
JOHN DENT,
}}
Foans, Esq. BG. TROMSETT,
or
Directors: ( mort
W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SASSOON, Esq.. Ror, W. H. BEACH J. J. MURHAT, M.D.
Hon, H. B. GIB, G. J. HELLAND, Esq. G. HEARD, Esq.
W. LEMANN, Esq.
Committee of Management, Hon. W, KESWICK, Chairman
W. MACAULAY, Esq. R. O. THOMSETT, G. J. HALLAND, Haq. Esq., .N.
ment.
is
5.-A registered Pilot Bost is not per
either a Licensed Filot or certificated Ap nitted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when there prentice on board.
RAI-RAGULATION IX.
GENERAL-
Flags to be exhibited on arrival, When nearing the anchorage the Pilot
shall cause to be exhibited
A Red and White Flag (No. 3), if tho
vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Port
A Blue and White Flag (No. 2), if from any Foreign Port |-
A Yellow and Bine (No. 10), if the yel is in ballast
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the vesicl
11. Pilots Individuals Eligible. The subjects, citizens or proteges of Treaty Powers shall, equally with Natives of China, and without distinction of nationality, bo eligible for appointment when vacancies has gunpowder or other combustibles on ject to the General Regulations now isrupts te Harbour Facts: Fessels in Barbour, cccur, by the Board of Appointment, sub-board.
GENERAL REGULATION X. and the Bye-Laws to be under them euforced at the several Ports respectively.
GENERAL REGULATION LII. III Board of Appointment, how to be constructed.
Berthing, do 1.The duties of the Harbour Pilot, where such exists, 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 Manter as Fresident, the received from the Harbour Master's De- or a) Ɛenior Pilot, and two persons whose partment, take charge of vessels abiting namea ahall be drawn by lot, by the Harberth, going in and out of dock, or to and bour Master, from a list prepared and pub from a wharf or out of the anchorage, and lished by the Harbour Master in consulta to assist and report to the Harbour Master's tion with the Coneuls and Chambers of Office all matters concerning the shipping Commerce.
in Port, and the conservancy of the river or harbour.
2-In berthing
..:
GENRBAL REGULATION IV.
Facancies: how to be filled up. 1.Whenever there may be a vacancy amnog the Pilote, it shall be duly notified in the local prints; and eight days afterwards the Board of Appointment shall proceed to fill it up by a competitive examination.
2.1 The Board may refuse to admit to the examination any one who having one been a Licensed Filat, has bad his License withdrawn, and also any candidate who is unable to procure Consular Certificates, as to Character, &c.
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3-The sxamination shall be public and gratuitous, and the vacancies shall ba given dates without distinction of nationality, to the most competent among the candi
provided always the competency of the first on the list be not relative but absolute,
4.-The Consul concerned may in person, ¡ONATIONÉ of Books, Poriodicala, News- | of DONA
by deputy, be present and tako
part in papers, Clothes, &e, will be must the examination of candidates. bankfully received.
A. OVERBURY,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, October 29, 1868.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
admitted 16 Medicine is universally to be the most efficacious remedy known to the world. No preparation is a suitable to the giunten of India and China medicine! It
The majority of the votes of the members of the Board shall decide the admission of eandidates, for Pilots Li conses, each member having one vote in the Balloy, but in the absence of the Consul concerned the Harbour Maater shall have esating vote: REGULATION V
GENERAL
*Pilots'
a
Facences; by whom to be issued. L-Pilots License shall be issued by the Comunissioner of Customs in the 1
ug vessois the Harbour Mas-
ter will, as far as possible, meet the wishes of Commanding Officers and Consignees and the entrance, working or clearance of vessels taking barths not assigned to them, shall be stopped by the Customs until the Harbour Master's orders are complied with.
3.Yessals are to moor in accordance with orders received from the Barbour blaster, and they are not to remers from the anchorage without his permission.
4.The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable to the Harbour Master are as follows:
Shifting a vessel's berth; taking a vessel full to or from a hesying down Hulk; $10, in
THE STREATY FURTS OF CHINA & JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN." EXTHAUTE FROM REVIER'S.
Putin.
(From the Straits Times," July 27, 1868.)
Circulara, Price Lists, Market Reports and of the new Order Lapsed Orders must be first unfre (8 P.M.), nor Special Chatra as this fine and invigorating constitution of, China shall subsequently be, visdd and China Mail newspaper, Thi
all printed papers other than Newspapers, as well as to Books and Trade patterns or samples.
F. W. MIT HELL, Postmaster General
General Post Office, Hongkong, 12th August, 1809.
12-But when it is desired that any error in the name of the Remitter or Payee should be corrected or that the amount of a Money Order should be repaid to the Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should be renewed for payment in the Country in which the Order was originally drawn, application must be made to the Chief application must be accompanied by an
As Special Obaira are secured for a higher sum ($50) than Ordinary Chairs ($35), it is for the interest of the Públic to engage only the former after gunfire.
Each Street-Chair carries a Number, and its two Coulies a Badge each, beating the same Number as the Chair.
19
It is hereby notified for general inferma. tion that henceforward closed mails for the United Kindoin will be made up at this money Order Office of sucks Country: Ordinary Chairs are Blue, (201 to 700)
Office and forwarded to London by the Un- additional Commission, unless it have re ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco. ference to a Lapseil Order, in which case the Correspondence intended to be forwarded Commission will be deducted from the by this route must be addressed via 5 San ) amount of the New Order. Francisca." 2
* 13 – Repayment whether of an original, the complaint and the Chair's Number to
Letters, Newspapers, Books and Patterns, wil be liable to the same rates of postage as those sent by the British Mail Packet via Southampton viz
For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce, For oooh Newspaper not exceeding 4 bunces, & cents.
For a packet of Books or Patterns, 8 cents per 4 ounces. -
The Postage must in all cases be paid in advance; correspondence not fully prepaid will be sent via Suck,
or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not
be made to the remitter nutil it has been ascertained that the advice has been can- called at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn.
of
is particularly adapted to the
Somo time ago we had occasion to remark upon tho progress that Literature as repre- sented by the Tress had made and was making in the East, and our attention has again been called to the subject by the re- ceipt of a Hongkong publication which deserves some notice and which we have uruch pleasure in introducing to the know- on behalf of the Chinese Government: Li-ledge of our renders. We allude to Notes oenses issued to Pilots net being Eatives Queries on thina and Japan, published monthly by Mr Saint, the proprietor of the publication of European ladies, sa it is never failing in registered at the Consulate concerned. its effects in all diseases peculiar to females,
ix well printed in good And while those who are attenuated by the dea printed copy of the General Regulations sake or prototype at home, and is
2Every Licensed Pilot shall be given and shape is very like its well-known name-
papery
equally of the above climates will and Local Rules and shall produce the same mine containing very carious and useful bilitating offcots
information regarding the language, litera- find in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta- us well as his Licence when lisman whereby they may insure a restera-
6.On the Erst of July acquired
your every turo, history, manners and customa of the tion to robust health.
Pilot shall pay the sum of Ten. Haikwan Chinese and in a less degres of the Japanese. It says good deal for the extent and stability of the footing of Europeans in China that such
a publication as this should be established and condusted with apparently successful vigour,
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT. The solence of Medicine has never before
Taels for the renewal of his Liconso..
in size
The publication is altogether a very in-
we commend it to the attention and support
of our readers.
The Numbers and Coolies Badges of
GENERAL REGULATION VL The Number and Coolies Badges of Special Chairs are White, (1 to 200).
Apprentice Pilots; how to be taken. 1.It shall be allowable for each Licensed When ground of
produced any remedy that can be compared Complaint arises against to this wonderful Ointment, as it cures Pilot to take an apprentice, for whom he any Street Chair Coolio, the person ag- after all per mans have failed, all shall be responsible; on the grieved may either hand the offender over
application of to the Folice, or send a memorandum of wounda, sores, ulera, and also the mast Pilots, the Harbour Master will supply Aptereating one, and wishing it every success,
inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the cli-prentices with special çertificaton,
2.When the circumstances of the Fort mates of India and China. It is the trie Registrar General. When Street Chair-Coolias
friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as car appear to demand it, the Harbour Master are suspected having retarded missing property, the tain old sores can be removed by it that may authorize sprentices to act tempira (From the Friend of India," June 4, 1868.) Number of their Chair should be sent to not be conquered by any other treat- ily and within certain limite, as Pilots;
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt the Registrar General at onge,
provided they have received certificates of of the numbers for the current year of without any
competeney from the Board of Appoint-Notes and Queries," a most deserving loss of time,
Hongkong, February 1, 1887.
ment. Each Street Chair carries on the back of
Anglo-Chincac monthly, edited by Mr N. GENERAL REGULATION VII.
B. Denny Its Number Hosed & Tarit of Fares con
Licensed Pilots; to whom subordinated,
whose "Treaty Ports of Chine densed from the following,
Unlicensed Piloting, de
and Japan" are so well known. From the LEGALISED TARIFY OF FARES FOR CHAIRS,
1.-Licensed Pilots may carry on their that the contributors include some of the names attached to the "Notes" wo can 520 ORAIN BEARERS, AND BOATS,
basiness either singly or in Companies. best Chinese scholars in the East. Its in- They must pay due respect to the wishes terest is not confined to China, and it will and instructions of the Harbour Master, be of valuable assistance to all scholars, who under whose order and control they are have directed their attention towards the placed, and who is invested with power to subject of Buddhism and its literature, and
IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG. Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Bouts. Half hour,....12 ct Three hours,..60 cts, Four 20 ete.Six hours,..... cts. Night Fares (after B P.M.) Day (from 6 to 0.
Une Dollar, ...10 ets. extra
14 Payment of an Order must be ob tained before the end of the Sisth Calendar Mouth after that in which it was drown for instance, if drawn in January, payinent must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Order will become lapsed, add a new Order (for, which a second Com- anissinn, tu be deducted from the amount PAW MITCHELL of the Order, will be charged) will become
Estanter General.cessary
T General Post Of
151f an Order benot paid before the Hongkong Februal, 18697 -
ens of the Twelfth Calendar Manth after that in which it was drawn, for instance, Chare to Out Districts. heroby notified that, under the ag. It is thewity of a Treasury Warrant dated the lat May
last, Superintending, or First Class Schoolmaters in the Arpy will, in future,
·
If drawn in January, and not paid before the end of the following January-all claire to the Money will be forfeited, anless, under peculiar circumstances, the Post be entitled to the same privileges in regard Office of the Country which the Order
was drawo think proper to allow it. A
fo Letters sent by or addressed to them ou their own private affairs as are at present 16.After once paying a Money Order enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the Army; and all Army. Schoolristicos will by whomsoever prosented, the paying Office
be entitled (as Army Schieblingsters of all will not be liable to any further claim. I me wrong payment, however, be made owing
but the First Class upware) to the same to negligence on the part of any Officer of privileges, in regard to their Letters, aro enjoyed by non-commissioned Officers and the Foot Office, the Postmaster General of
Private Soldiers,
the Country or Colony in which the negli- genoe occurs will, if he seo tit, require the
FW MITCHELL, Postmaster Geriøral,
Offices in fanit to make good the lone..
General Post Office. Hongkong, July 81
Beyond Victoria and back, 50 cte, per man. To Stanley and back,
BO
23
Victorin lics below the level of Robinsen Road, and includes all the town between the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, with the Race-course,
Licensed Bearers (each).) --
8 cents, Hour,
20 cents. Half day,
30 cents.
Day,...
Intimations.
Published weekly-Subscription (Excin-
in advance.
nient,"
1
NOW READY.
(AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.) PRICE $1.00.
THE
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
MANUAL.
if
suspend or dismiss subject to an
the Consul: concerned, what appeal generally to all who are interested in terre
Pilot is a Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged, within eutal antiquities. It deserves to be better
known in India. A mination of Chinese Daten, during the If guilty of any misconduct fiet ech
Handbook of reference for the deter three days.
2.If for which
(From the "London Examiner," May 16, 1868.) period from 1860 to 1869; with comparativa Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, tc., de. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE RICK MAYERS, H.M,C..
studies
by
We have the
17 No Money Order will be paid unless sive of postage) Tls. 12 per annum; payable months, and other perioda is also frequentan unlicensed person to pilot his vesel whole volume. Other chapters treating of
the advice has been previously received.
Additional Rules for greater secti
if proved to have committed, any offence
This really beeful volume ("Treaty Ports Against Revenue Laws, the individual of China and Japan" is intended nos a concerned may be suspended or dismissed
guide for travelers and residents in China the Harbour Master, subject to an aand Japan, and as a book of reference for peal to his Consul. If a foreigner, the mercantile men generally. It contains an Author's Preface,
appeal to be lodged within three days, Most persons whose avocations or 3.Any one piloting without & Tacense,count, historical and political, of all the are connected even remotely with Obinese shall be subject to prosecution before his Peking, Yedo, Hongkong, and Macao. It open ports of I these countries, together with subjects are wont to confess the need of a own authorities, who will deal with the has been carefully compiled and edited by convenient manual of reference for the pur-offender in accordance with the Laws of his Mr N. B. Dennys; and the claborate mixpa pose of determining dates according to Country. Any Pilot lending his License to and plans, with which the work abounds, either the European or the Chinese method shother will be proceeded against and dealt of computation; and a system of compari- with in the same way, in addition to forfeit considerably enhance its valve.
given in outline some of ing his license, son for the names attributed to
the more prominent portions of the chapter Any Commanding Officer employing devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the will be liable to be fined in the sum of One
Masso, Formoss, Ningpo, Shanghae, and the remainder of the treaty ports, we can jurisdiction he is amenable.
The pages describing Peking, the capital, are so interesting, and contain so much that is bew to European In Hongkong or at any of the Ports in- 19-Should it appear that Money Orders
readers respecting its history, public buil China and Japani gddressed to Egypt, or are used by mercantile met, or other,
dings, and general characteristics, that wo posted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong or
either in the United Kingdom or at Hong- ang of theorie in Chisk and Jag kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the Caretta fan General Weekly Newaps the exception of the Dyclical Table of where each boat will be given a certificate would fain transfer them to our columns. per, containing Officially Revised Reports Years, and the Table of Solar Terms, both and number. The words "Licensed Pilot A complete and intelligible plan of the Im veyed in the Mails by British Packet, saamission of large sums of money, the fodgerd from Twenty-four Cehts to Twelve British or Colorsial Post Diflice, as the case Cobris, Pution Caure, qurd Proseculings as Morrisuh, and afterwards, published with Boat shall, with the number, be legibly perial City and neighbourhood, gives tis st
Police and in painted at the stern, and on the head of the accurate notion of the relative position of may be, will consider the, propriety of in- Baukruptcy Original Articles; Notes and improvements in Willidins? Commerctul Mainsail and a flag of which the opper its divisions, strests, and places. cending half-an-ounce in aressing the Cottmission, and will exercise For Letters exceeding, half-an-ounce in
In the introdotory the notices weight a further rate of Tweire dents for the power of wholly auspending for a tineries on Legal points: Reports of Public Guide, from which (with some alteration) horizontal half shall be yellow, and the
The issue of Money Orders,
Meelings News of the Wook, Commercial they are now copied, the whole of the mat lower green, shall be flown. Such ragister of the Treaty Forts of
will be found dach half ouúce is chargeable,
Summary, so, lạ
ter assembled in the following pages in for ad Pilot Boats shall deposit their national a specinct history of that Empire, together Prepayment of the Postage is compulatry,
Advertisements will be charged Th. 1 the first time made accessible to general papers with their Consul or the Customs; with remarks on its government, geography, per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 60 reference.
they shall be at liberty to move freely and limits, which will be found particularly ots. per 10 lines, for each subsequent inser
within the limits of the Fort and Pilotage interesting as throwing a considerable light Hon.
Published by C. A. SAINT, China Mail ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on a part of the world so long entirely, and Office, Hongkong.
Aues. On the requisition of the Harbour will comparatively, unknown to Europens
Tie hereby notified that, under the pro-rity against fraud, and for the better work
visions of a Treasury, Warrant dated log of the system generally will be made the 7th May, the Forage ont à Letter not a gocasion may require. Eroeeding half-an-vince in weight posted
Celtic
FW MITCHELL «Postmaster General,
General Post Offee, Hongkong, July 15, 1868,
By Command,
EW. MITCHELL Postmaster General,
General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1888,
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, Law REPORTER FOR THE SUFREMB AND
AND
PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA AND JAPANYA
Shanghai, Jannary, 1867,
ly a desideratum with translators and readers of Chinese literature. The com- piler of the following tables has thought, Hundred Taeks by the authorities to whose accordingly that their publication in convenient form may prove useful, although GENERAL REGULATION VIII. much yet remains to be done for the elabo Pilot Boute: Regulations to be observed. ration of comparative calendars, etc. that Pilot Boats Aball be registered with should leave nothing to be desired. With their crews at the Harbour Master's Office,
only enumerate.