3-OCTOBER
Insurances. NOTICE
EN INSURANCE COMPANY,
owing Rates will be charged in.
for short period Insurances,
ng 10 days, of the annual rate,
g1 month,
ath and not
8 months,
onths and
ling 6 athe...
do
do tadq
def by aniz the full annual rate;
BAN, LAMBERT & Com
the Queen Insurance Company, 3, May 20, 1868.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
araigned, Agents for the above ny are prepared to grant Poli, FIRK, on BUILDINGS and current rates.
RUSSELL & Co. February 6, 1867,
SEA & FIRE INSURANCE
-COMPANY.
raigned having
a v
been appointed
in Hongkong for the above. ASY RTS prepared to great Fo BEA RISKS, at currábitrates,
RUSSELL & Co. April 1, 1865,
ZE INSURANCE ASSOCIA ON OF SHANGHAI
3. granted on Marine ilisks to
a of the world at current
rates
n to the usual brokerage, this returns to the assured. Vifteen its yearly profia divided pro net premium contributed.?! RUSSEL&Co.:
Secretarico
June 4, 1869 146 INSURANCE COMPANY BAN FRANCISCOURA
raigned having been appointed in Uhins for the above t NY are prepared to grant Poll
Marine Risks, at the current
RUSSELL & Go, July 6, 1868, najem in
HABANG SEA AND SURANCE COMPANY OF
SAMARANG,
brsigned having been appointed in Macao for the above named prepared to grant Policies zine Risks at the onrrent Rates.
BAYNAL & Qo,
gust 1866,
E OOSTERLING FIRE INSURANCE COM- ANY OF BATAVIA.
rigued having been appointed in Hongkong for the above. pany are prepared to grant inst Bes Risks on the usual
SIEMSSEN & Co.
, August 1, 1886.
Docks
JON DOCK. COMPANY OF
G&WHAMPOA, LIMITED
pany call the attention of Ship ra, Consigneer and Masters of heir Establishment at Hong Thampos, for the DOCKING RING of Vessels of all classen. Fong the Company have the in the harbours Granite
built, and of dimensions to
of 850 feet in length," and
feet of water, ag
to 18 there are Shipwrights,
Boilermakers sud
Machinery
everything necessary for the
iling Vessels or Steamers, any have also opened » Ship aide of the Hongkong Dock, to contract for the construc ers or Bailing Vessels of any
Time
bon the
pos Company will take
uced rates.
Tug LITTLE ORPHAN"
ted to tow: Vensel to sex, or
at reasonable rates,
lars, apply to
ipurd
ROB. 8. WALKER.
Secretar
Office, Queen's Road, Corner Lane.
song, April 8, 1869,
ON DOCK COMPANY OF ONGʻAND, WHAMPOA,
(LIMITED)
NOTICE.
Company, having recstly at their Docking Katablish loon, FIRST CLASS MA- are prepared to furnish Teklers ufacture and Repairing of sing, and for the making of Stashi Machinery (marine or of Sugar crashing and
Rein y-Shafting, Gearing
Factory, or Mill work
Löf:
is lar course of completion,
hich Vessels drawing 18/fest.
ky at any state of the tide
he Jetty are Shears dapable of
ROB. 8: WALKER,
Secretary
June 21, 1809,
blished by CHABLES ÁREASÂM briator, at No. 9, Wyndkam
1973
October 4 1969.)
#B
Post-Omec Nott&eationss
Tix the
447 NOTICE, dinar COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA. RITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.
PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS,
STEAM FOR BE
I hereby notified that, warrant, dated the 7th May, the Postage on a Letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight posted in China and Tuban, addressed to Beypt, or posted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong or of the Ports in China and Japan, and conveyed in the Mails by British Facket, is reduced
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
Intimations.
desire to receive payment in, the Country in sive of postage) Tis. 19 per anuum ; payable
-Should the Payee of a Money Order Published weekly,-Subscription (Excla
which the Order was issued, at some other in advance. Office than that in which the Order was ori the transfer will be granted, provided the be inclosed to the Postmaster of"
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
"Hongkong fit any of the Porta in ginally dra Ollice in which it was AW RxPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND
drawn. In such case a new Order will be issued, the Commission chargeable upon
AND
C
Intimations,
intimations.
HINESE PILOTAGE Master or his deputies, it will be obligatory
SERVICES O
on registered Pilot Boats to convey from place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Customs or, Harbour Master's Departments, with such storey ap may be wanted for either Light-houses or Light-ships.
GENERAL REGULATIONS WITH LUCAL RULES
PROVINCIAL COURTS OF Cg warge
PORT OF SWATOW.
AND JAPAN.
Centop-10 Cents to Twelve which will be deducted from the amount HE Gazette is& General Weekly Newspa
SAIGON SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, id peeding, half-an-ounce the new Ur
POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ,
ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES ALBO
WOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS,
A CALCUTTA THE Company's Steam-slip "IMPERA
TRICK," Domandant MACAIRE, will fare this Port for the above places, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and TUESDAY, the 12th October, CARGO,
Cargo and Special will be registered to nadons well as for Marseilles, and couple high Masettice for
of Europe the principal places ved on board until 4
Carge will be
Noon
6.x, of the 11th. (Parcels are not to be f sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Ofice); } < 1 < ILTAD
For, Particulars regarding Freight and PEPE CONTENTS AND VALUE at the Company's office, Hougtong OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED; T BERTRAND, Principal Agent,
0012 Hongkong, September 21, 1869.
PACIFIC MALL STEAM-SHIP
Candon COMPANY of onderne THEOBOH U. 5. MAIL LINE TO NEW YORK.
TEAMERS of this line will be despatch-
od as follows
Japan
Creat
October 19. MORE 199
A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or About same date, connecting at Yokohama with above named steamer
Passengers ticketed through to California, Mexico, Central and South America, the Atlantic States, and to England or France, both Tia New York and by 16s from Pa Data and Aspinwall.
Beturn tickets issued at a reduction of whole ammunt for the round
Toyga
Connections are made at Panama with Steam Lines upon the West Coast of Cen-
weight & further rate of Twelve Confa for
chargeable,
Greteral Post Office,
ulsory..
Liter Henerály.
114.
10-In the event of a Money Order miscarrying for being lost, a duplicate will bo granted on a written application from the Payee (ontaining the necessary particulars dccompanied by an addi- sional Commission) to the Office, where the Original Order was payable. Muztasy H
per, containing Officially Revised Reporta of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular Courts, Police Casse, and Proceedings in Bankruptay Original Articles; Notes and Queries on Legal points; Reports of Public Meetings; News of the Week, Commercial Summary, &c., du
Advertisements will be charged Tha, 1 11.-un the receipt of a similar applica cia, per 10 lines, for each subsequent inser per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 Tia heroby.notified for general informas Money Order, or to renew lapsed
tion, orders will be given to stop payment tion. tion that henceforward this Postage
Commission in the shargeable on Book and Fockets of Patterns Order The addressed to the Uniladatában. Americ, Jason40 will haud from the amount transmitted via the United Kingdom will of the now Order, Lapsed Orders must be be as follows, vis
presented with the application for a new
Under 4 ounce,
SOUTHAMPTON
Above 4 ounce and not ex-
ceeding 8 ounce, Above 8 ounca and
ceeding 12 once,
not ex-
Above 13 ounce and rot
*12 canta,
24
#
ceeding 16 unneed
For every additional 1912
Via MARSEILLER.R
Under 4 ounce, F 16 conte Above & since, and Rox,
*
Urder.
19-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 Lapaed Urder should bomenrod for payment in the Country in which the Order was originally drwn, application must be made to the Chief Money Ord Office of such Country Th application hust be accompanied by additional Commission, unless it have re- ceading Queenference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the Above & cunco and not ex-> Commission
amount of the
will be deleted from the
New Order, 13.-Repayment whether of an original, or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not Prepayment of the Postage is catapulory be made to the remitter until it lashed ancoriained that the advice has been can-
| originally drawn,
ceeding 12 ounce
Above 12 ounce and not ex-
ecoding 16 ounce,
Fer every additional 4
22
Shanghai, January, 1867.
NEW BOOK,
HE Speculations of
The Old Philosopher'
Lau-Ta Translated from the Chinese
BY
JORN CHALMERS, A‚M. Price $1.50. The Origin of the Chinese" by the anne auther: Price $1.
Apply at Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & CO. or The London Mission House,
Hongkong, October 17, 1868.
FOR SALE
AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE THE following SETS of the "CHINA in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cents PUNOH" vari be obtained, stitched
GENERAL REGULATION 1. -L. Bye-Laws and Local Rules. 1.-Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for the better ordering of pilotage matters at
Every Licensed Filot Boat shall pay a fee or Twenty Taels for rouewal of La-
on the
CEDES of a Pilot going off in an i
registered boat, he will be authorized to carry the Pilot Boat Flag during the time he is on board; but no Pilot is authorised to ernize in an unregistered Bost, without
.ex.
special permission from the Barbour Mas the Porte are to be drawn up by the Har bour Master in consultation with the Con-wered Hoat making use of a Filot, blag, and The owner of hirer of any unregis also it rests in the same way to fix the numbe prosecuted before the authorities to auls and Chamber of Commerce, with whom not having a Licensed Filet on board, shall ber of Pilots, tariff of chat,es, and deane about he is amenable, or whose Flag or the limits of the Pilotage ground.
The number of Pilots for the Part of 6.-A registered lot buat is not per
uational Ensign he has the right to use. Skatow
lill be is
mitted to ty she Pilot blag, aave when there." The Pilotage ground for the Port Swatów aball be of Bill Islet to the lower prentice on board.
is either & Licensed Filot or certificated Ap limit of the anchorage halchio Point.
of
The rates of pilutage shall be as fol- lows for all sized vessels between the limits of the Pilotage ground: steamers or sailing vessels, $2.50 per foot English measurement. To Harbour Pilot for Berthing or Unberth- ing, 50 cents per foot English measure ient
GENERAL REGULATION 1. II. Pilots-Individuals Eligible. The subjects, citizens or proteges of Treaty Powers ball, equally with Natives of China, and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies occur, by the Board of Appointment, sub- jest to the General Regulations now ibsted, and the Bye-Laws to be under the enforced at the several Ports respectively.
~
GENERAL REGULATION IX. Flags to be exhibited on arrival. shall cause to be exhibited-
When nearing the aneborage the Pilot
A Red and White Flag (No. 5), if the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese, Port.
A Blue and White Flag (No. 2); it from any Foreign Port,
A Yellow and Blub (No. 10), if the vessel iin bailset, P
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 6), if the veséel gunpowder or other combustibles" un
GENERAL REQULATION Barbour Filotz: Vessele in Harbour Berthing, de. GENERAL REGULATION LII,
1The duties of the Harbour Filot, III. Board of Appointment, how to be
where such exists, will be to take charge of constructed.
vessels at the outer bit of the anchorage, The Board of Appointment shall consist harth them in accordance with the ordern. 11 sets completo from 11, $3.50. of the Harbour Master as President, the received from the Harbour Master's De
$2.50. or a) Senior Pilot, and two persons whose partient, take change of vessels abilting $2.26. names shall be drawn by lot, by the Harberth, going in and out of deck, or to and
in each case W. MITCHELL celled, so the;Ofice on which the Order was fer copy viz
Postmaster General
General Post Office
Oskar
ور
No. Price.
10,
Hongkong, June 18, 1809 dalained before the end of the Sixth Calendar-lo a few aeparate copies of Nos.1,bour Master, from a list prepared and pub, from a whari or out of the anchorage, and
thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the 1st It is hereby dotified that, wider the au May last, Superintending, or First-Class Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future, be entitled to the halne privileges in regard to Letters sent by or addressed to them on their own private affairs all are at present
By snjoyed Commisioned Officers in this
be entitled (as Amy Schoolmasters of but the First Class now are) to the same arijoyed by our comitisivuned (pors and privileges, in regard to an
ard their Letters,
C. A. SAINT.
14 Payment of an Order must be ob54 Mouth after that in which if was drawn: must be ontamed before the end of July, for instance, if drawn in January, payment $7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and from 19 to 24. lished by the Harbour Master in consulta to assist and report to the Harbour Master's otherwise the Order will become Japa and a hay Order (for which a second top- ission, to be deducted from the amount of the Order, will be charged) will become
scepty.
inland South America, at Aspinwall with Ariny; and all Army, Schoolmistresses Wer end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after
the Royal West India Mail Line West India and Paville Steam-ship" (limited) and the French Transetikute New York, with the Company” And, Farious lines to Europe Tickets issued for the following Steam-ship Lines: InmaU, National, General Transatlantic Co; New York and Havre Stoam-ship New York
B., New
North
and Bremon Steatu-ship Coy, and ot German Eloyds
Favorable arrangements have
have been madé
for through passengers and freight to Ame- Unkutts, Penang and Singapore, from rica, And, from Swithw Amoy and Fooshow.
Through Bills of
of Lading gayon for Ports of Mord Both on the to an far to Valga
Mexico and West Coast of Cen-
Paso, to New York, Liverpool Southampton and 8.
Hojector
Vege Frates payablo in ad-
Tailės
to
United
In Mizioan Dollars, or of delltery
to 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.
T A. HARRIS,
Agent, Fongkong, August 10, 1869.
„„Post-Dice Notifications.
Private Soldiers.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, JBJS,
15.If an Order bo not paid before the that in which it was drawn, for instance, it draws in and not paid before
the onil of the following janusty--all claim
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT.
Trustees..
Hen. W. KwK, FORBES, Esq.
JOHN DENT, H. G. THOMAETT,
Esq.; R.N.
11
tion with the Colisule and Chambors office all matters concerning the shipping in Port, and the conservancy of the river or harbour.
Commercola
GENERAL RESOLATION IV.. Vacancies: how to be filled up. 1.-Whenever there may be a vacancy aninog the Pilots, it shall bo duly notibed in the focal printa; and eight days afterwards the Board of Appointment shall proceed to fill it up by a competitive examination.
2.The Board biay refuse to admit to the
any one he, having once examination bean a
Pilot, bas lsd his License withdrawn, and also any candidate who is unable to procure Consular Certificates as J. J. MORKAT, M.D.to Character, &o. Committee of Management,
Bon. H. B. GIEM,
Directors
to the Money will be forfeited, anless, G. J. HELLAND, Esq. under peculiar circumstances, the Post G. HAND, Esq. Office of the Country in which the Order W. LEMANN, Esq. was drawn think proper to allow it
16. After once paying a Money Order
by whomsoever presented, the paying Office
of
W. MKOAULAY, Eneg. D. SASSOON, Eng, Rev. W. R. BEACH.
2.In berthing vessus the Harbour Mas ler will, as far as possible, meet the wishes of Commanding Uthcers and Consignees; and the entrance, working or clearance of vessels taking berths not assigned to then, shall be stopped by the Customs until the Barbour Master's orders are complied with
S.--Vessels are to moer in accordauce with orders received from the Harbour
blaster, and they are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4.-The Barbour Filotage Fees payable 3.The oxamination shall be public and to the Harbour Master are as follows
Shifting a vessel's berth; taking a vessel gratuitous, and the vacancies shall be given Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairnien,
to the most competent among the caudito or from a heaving down Hulk; $10, în dates without distinction of
full. nationality, provided always the
of the first competency on the list be not relative but absolute.
THE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA THE 4.The Conal concerned way in person, QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN! & JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND or by deputy, be present and take part in the examination of candidates.
It is hereby notified, by order of His will not be liable to any further claim. If W. MACAUZAY, Esq. H. G. THOMHTT, Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDona wrong payment, however, be magsowing, J. HELLAND, Esq. Esq.N. nell, that henceforward, the rates of For- to negligence on the part of any. tage chargeable on Packota of Printed the Post Office, the Postmast Papers Patterns of light weight sent the Country or Colony i
en via Southampton will be in fout af from Hongkong to the United Kingdom gouce occurs will, if l
follows
For a Puckat not exceeding one
ounce in weight,
cents
For a Packet above one and.
not exceeding two ounce,... 4 canta. and of double those rates when forwarded vid Marseilles.
the
17. Na Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received
18.Additional Rules for greater secu rity against fraud, and for the bettor work- ing of the system generally will be made aa occasion may require.
ORATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News- Do
papera, Cluthes, &c., will be most bonkfully voceived..
A. OVERBURY, Superintendent, Hongkong, October 20, 1868,
· HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S FILLS.
18 Medicine is universally admitted to bo the most efficacious remedy
Tho' majority of the votea. of the mombers of the Board shall decido the admission of candidates for Filots, Lif ceuses, cach member having one vote in the Ballut, bu
but in the absence of the Consul concerned the Harbour Master shall have casting vote,
EXTRACTS FRUM REVIEWS..
From the "Straits Times," July 27, 1808.). upon the progress that Literature as repre
Some time and ye had occasion to remark. sented by the Press had made and was a waking in the East, and our attention Ims again been called to the subject by the re-
& eipt of
Hongkong publication which deserves some notice much pleasure in introducing to the know- bitvo and which
Japan, published
GENERAL REGULATION V. Pilots Licenses by whom to be issued. 1.-Pilots' Idcenses shall be issued by the
and Queries on hind
We
Packets of greater weight than two ounces will remain subject to the same rates
19-Should it appear that Money Orders! as are now chargeable, viz.
are used by mercantile meu, or others, kunwn to the world. No preparation is no Commissioner of Customs in the name and ledge of our readers, We allude to Noles B. cents for every four ounces when for either in the United Kingdom or ut Hong suitable to the climates of India and Chips on behalf of the Chinese Government; Li
warded via Southampton, and kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the 12 cents for every four ounces when far- transmission of large sums of money, the warded via Alarseilles. British or Colonial Post Office, as the case This alteration will apply to Printed may be, will consider the propriety of in-
samples.
F. W MITHELL, Postmaster General.
By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General," General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868,
mouthly by Mr Saint, the proprietor of Chim China Mail newspapro. This publication
at the
ipped Pilot shall be 28 it is never face,
at the Consulate concerned.
is well printed on good paper, and in size
given
copy of the General Regulations
as this fine and invigorating medicine. It contes, insaed to Filote not being natives is particularly adapted to the constitution of Cline shall subsequently be vised and of European ladiva, white those who are attenuated by the de- its effects in all diseases peculiar to
fisman whereby they may insure a restora tion to robust hesiti.
a
.
as well us
as his License when required. 3 the first of July each your every Pilot shall pay the sum of Ten Haikwan Taels for the renewal of his License,
and shape is very like its well-known name--
ako or prototype at home, and
and is equally a litera- information regarding the language, ture, history, manners and customs of the Chinese and in s leas degree of the Japanese It says a good deal for the extent and stability of the footing of Europeans in China, that such a publication as thia should be established and conducted with apparently successful vigour.
1. It is hereby notified for general in- Oirulars, Price Lists, Market Reports and creasing lue Commission, and will exercise taking offects of the above climates will and Local Rules and shall produce the same ne contalving very curious, and useful: formation that, the Contract between the af printed papers other than Newspapers, the power of wholly suspending for a time and in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta Government of Mauriting and the Union woll as to Books and Trade patterns or the lusus of Money Orders. Steam-ship Company; for the Conveyance of Mails once a Month between Ceylon and Mauritius;atid between Mauritius and Natal, baving terminated, the correspon denes for Mauritius will be forwarded from this Office in the Mail for Aden, from whence it will be sent to its destination by
L-On the 1st Octaber next, and thence the French Mail Packets leaving Aden for forward Money Orders will be sued at and Mauritius on the ard of each this Office and at the Agencies thereof at 20 Shangbai and Yoholisms on all the Money
2. No alteration has buen hade in the
General Post Offico, Hongkong, 12 August, 1860.
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE, The following Regulations for Street Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Chairs and Chair-Coolies, bear date Colo- rates of Postage on correspondenes - reat Britain and Ireland, for amounts not nial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd
exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange April, 1869. Current for Bach Mail, and charged with Commission according to the following Scale, viz
dressed to Mauritius.
通
As the communication with Natal and Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, the
correspondence for those Colonies, unless marked to be forwarded by Private Ship, will in fatare, be sent in the Mail for London at the following rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance, viz f
Upon Letters sunt by way
Cents.
For sums not exceeding £2,............... 12° Abore £2 and not exceeding £ 5,4.24
£5
€ 7,42 AST:
£10,48
11
15
2.No Money Order to include a a frac
Penny, d
There are two Classes of Street Chairs, Ordinary and Special,
All Street Chairs may carry persons who huva engaged them up to any hour, but Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after Grat unfire (8 P.M.), nor Special Chaire after midnight
As Special Obairs are secured for a higher. sun (50) than Ordinary Chairs ($26), it
of Southampton,,... 46 conte cuon o tional, part of a Pom the United King-is for the interest of the Public to engage
When sent by way of
Marseilles, 64
Newspaper via Southam-
Apson,..... Bowspapers via Marseil
Book Packets via South-
6
Ampton 10
3.Oolers
dom apon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko-only the former after gunfire. bama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange Each Street-Chats carries a Number, and
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.
GENERAL REGULATION VI. The science of Modine has never before Apprentice Pilots; "how to be taken.
1. It shall be allowable for each Licensed produce any reinedy that can be compared to this wonderful Ointment, as it cures Pilot to take on apprentice, for whom he after all other means have failed, all shall be responsible; on the
application of
wounds, sores, ulcers, and also the most Pilots, the Harbour Master will supply Apteresting cue, and wishing every success,
inveterate shiu diseases peculiar to the oli prentices with special certificates. mates of India and China. It is the true friend of the Soldier and Civilian, aa cer- tain old sores can be removed by it that not be conquered by any other treat Hongkong, February 1, 1867.
ment,
NOW, READY.:
(AT THE "CHINA, NAIL" OFFIC.) PRICE $1,00.
THE
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
mout.
GENERAL REGULATION VII.
Liemaed Pilots; to whom subordinated,
The publication is together a very in-
of our readers. we commend it to the tention and support
2.When the circumstances of the Port appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorize apprentices to act tempora (From the "Friend of India," June 4, μ1868.) ; rily and within certain limite, as Pilots
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt provided they have received certificates of of the numbers for the current yest of competency from the Board of Appoint"Notes and Queries a most deserving Anglo-Cbluene monthly, edited by Mr N. B. Dennye, whose Treaty Ports of China and Japan are so well known. From the Unlicensed Piluting, &c. 1-Licensed Pilots may carry on their that the contributors include some of the names attached to the "Notes" we can kee business either singly or in Companies.beat Chinese scholars the East. Its in They must pay due respect to the wishes terest is not confined to Chizia, and it will and instructions of the Harbour Master, be of valuable assistance to all scholars, who ander whose order and control they are have directed their allention towards thin placed, and who is invested with power to subject of Buddhism and its literature, and suspend or dismiss, subject to an appeal to generally to all who are interested in ori the Consul concerned; when the Pilot is Foreigner,
the appeal to be lodged within tal antiquities. It deserves to be better
known in India, three
days. 2.If guilty of any misconduct for which Consular punishment has been infifoted, or
(From the "London Examiner," May 16, 1868.3 if proved to have committed any offence against Repen Landed or diard of China and Japan is intended as concerned may be suspended or dismissed by the Harbour Master, subject to an apguide for travellers and residents in China peal to his Consul. If
daya. appeal to be lodged within thereigner, the and Japan, and as a book of referendina mercantile men generally. It contains an ter or Payen be a Fear or Bishop; his or When Street Chair-Coolies are suspected dinary ville will be anticiont; if a hem, the of having retained missing property, the are connected even remotely with Chinees shall be subject to prosecution before his Poking, Vedo, Hongkong, and other vitit 3.Any one piloting without a Toense, account, historical and political, of all the of these with "Bering Brothers” will aufce but the the Registrar General at once without any convenient manual of reference for the pur-offender in accordance with the Laws of his Mr N. B. Denbys; auf the elaborate mana and edited by
MANUAL,
at which Money Orders are being issued at isa two Coolies a Hadge each, bearing the the time of their presentation.
same Namber as
as the Chair. 4-Alphabetical Lista of over 3,700 The Numbers and Coolies' Badges of Money Order Offices in the United King-Special Chairs are White, (1 to 200), dom,
The Numbers and Cooties' Badges of Handbook of reference for the deter- mination of Chinese Dates, during the are hung up for public refer- Ordinary Chairs are Blue, (201 to 700). ence at this Uföce, and also at Shanghai
period from 1880 to 1809; with comparativa and Yokohama.
When ground of Complaint arises against Tables of Annusi and Mensual Designationis, Street Chair Conlin, the person aged. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE grieved may either band the offender.over faraish, in full, the surname, and, at least, to the Police, or send a meatorandum of KICK MAYERS, .M.CS.
under 4 R the Counties in which thoy
os., 20 bants, above 4 oz. had not ex- ceding 8 oz.; and 20 cents for every additional 8 oz.
Book Packets via Maraeilles, 14 canta
under 4 vz. 28 cents above for and not
exceeding & nz; and 28 cents for every widisional & qunces,
* ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General,
General Post Office, Hongkong,
9th September, 1868.
ате
5.Applicants for Money Orders must
ABY
the initial of one Christian lace, both of the complaint and the Chair's Number to
the Remitter and the Payes; if the Remit- the Registrar General,
It is bereby modified for general informa-ing turier a title which does not consist of
Author's Preface. Boat persons whose avocations or studies'
This really useful volume Treaty Ports:
plans,
with which the work abounda
more term Messrs,, sul Messrs. Ri-loss of time,
pose of determining dates according to Country. Any Pilot lending his License to the use of Company tra
and Each Street-Chair carrios ou the back of either the European or the Chinese-method another will be procceded against and dealt vington," or
its Number Board & Tarif, of Fares con- of computation; and a system of compari- with in the same way, in addition to forfeit considerably enhance its value, *** ** deased from the following.
son for the names attributed to years, ing his Licenso
have thus We has
given in outline some of montbe, and other
Any Commanding Officer employing the more prominent portions of the chapter periods is also frequent-
devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the readers of Chinese literature. The com will be liable to be fixed in the sum of One piler of the following tahes has thought, Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose the remainder of the treaty ports, we can Macao, Formoss, Ningpo, Shanghae, and Boardingly, that their publication in a jurisdiction he is amenable convenient farm may prove naeful, although touch yet remains done for
tion that henceforward closed mails for the the names of ile persous composing it, such United Kindom will be made up at this as "Carton Co." is inadmissible, Office and forwarded to London by the Un-
CHAIN BEARERS, AND BOATE, ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco, der is to be paid only through a Bank, to
Correspondence intended to be forwarded have the option of giving or withdrawingIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG,
6-The Remitter on stating that the Or. LEGALLED TARIFF OF FABES FOR CHAIR a desideratum with translators and an unlicensed person to pilot his yeast whole rolnime. Other chapters treating of
by this route, must be addressed via San the name of the Payes; such as the Chairs, or Ordmary Pullaway Boots.
Order will be crossed in the same way that Half hour, 12 sts. Three hours,..50 eta. ny, Nowagapore, Booksand Patterns, are commonly crossed they
through a Bank.
12
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be liable to the same rates of postage are intended to be presented through Night Fares (after 8 P.M.) 10 eta, extra should leave nothing to be desired. With their crews at the Harbour Master's Office, ding and general characteristics, that we
those sent by the British Mail Packets vis Southampton via 1---
For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce,
For each Newspaper tiot exceeding 4 out conta
For paokes of Books or Patterns, 8 cents per & ounces.
7-When an Order.
Chair Fire to Out Districts, --
only enumerate, The pages describing GENERAL REGULATION VILL Peking, the capital, are so interesting, and Pilot Boats Regulations to be obserced, contain so much that is now to European 1-Pilot Boats shall be registered with readora respecting its history, public ball- One Dollar.ration of comparative calendars, etc. that
the exception of
of the Cyclical Table of where each boat will be given a certificate would fain transfer em Year and the Table of Solar Terms, both and number. The words "Licensed Pilot A complete and intelligible plan of the Im to. our columns. of which were originally compiled by Dr. Boat" shall, with the number, be legibly perial City and neighbourhood, gives us ad Morrison, and afterwards republished with painted at the stern, std on the head of the neurale untion of the relative position improvements in Williams Commercial Mainsail and a flag, of which the upper its divisions, streets, and places, Guide, from which (with some alteration) horizontal half shall be yellow, and they are now copied, the whole of the mat lower green, shall be flown. Snch register of the Treaty Ports of Japan will be found the in the introductory chapter to the notices ter assembled in the following pages is for ed Pilot Boats shall deposit their nationala succinct history of that Empire, together the first time made accessible to general papers with their Consul or the Customs with remarks on its government, geography, referencs....
they shall be at liberty to move freely and limite, which will be found particularly within the limits of the Port and Pilotage interesting as throwing a considerable light Published by 0,-. SAINT. China Mall ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on a part of the world so long entirely, Office, Hongkong.
lues. On the requisition of the Harbour & still comparatively, unknown to Europeans,
Day (from 0 to 8), "..... A Bank, & receipt by any person will be suf- ficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Bank, and be Beyond Victoria and back, 50 eta per man. presented by some Perstis known to be in To Stanley and back, 60.
Victoria lies below the level of Robinson the employ of such Bank
She signature of the Payeo of a Mo Road, and includes all the town between The Postage rust in all asses be paid in ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the the bine and the Western Slaughter House, advance; correspondence not fully prepaid place provided for the purpose
If the with the Race-course, Payes be anable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of a Witness, who must sign bis name, with his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Order,
-
will be sent via dues
F. W. MITCHELL, Pastmaster (fenerdi.
Uphoral Post Office, Hongkong February 1, 1869.
Licensed Bearers (each). Hour, Half day, Day...
8 cenia, 20 cents. 36 cents.
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