Page
OCTOBER 5, 1869.
Insurances.
NOTICE.
N INSURANCE COMPANY...
ing Rates will be charged in
for short period Insumo
10 days, of the annual rabai; b and not
21 month, ¿, dozad, so sioit 3 months,
inths and ng 6
tur
dobrinom oli Share the full annual rates GAN, LAMBERT & Co, gi the Queen Insurance Company May 20, 1869, zbunjejti SURANCE COMPANY PRE
IN FRANCISCO, ole ett
signed; Agents for the above ars prepared, te grant Polis VIBE, on BUILDINGS, and
rept rates.
RUSSELL February 8, 186
EA & FIRE INSURANCE-
COMPANY
at all w
to font it not bilny
igned baving been appointed
Hongkong for the bays
Ny are prepared to grant Foy BEARISKS,
A
RUSSELL & Dow
April 1, 1866dd to wis INSURANCE ASSOCLL" OF SHANGHA
ranted on Marina, Itisks to
of the world at current rates, Lo.the neus brokerage. Lik
turns to the asruzed Byfest a yearly, profits divided premium contributed
BUSSELE & OU
Secretaries.
June 4, 1869. NSUBANOR COMPANY AN FRANCISCO.
med having been appointed China for the above insura are prepared to grant Poli- arine: Risks, at the current
RUSSELL & CO. uly 8, 1866, from $31 RANG SEA AND h 47 RANCE COMPANY OF AMARANG, "pre
word "blue
gned having been appointed Macao for the above, named repared to grant Policies Kinks at the current Rate RAYNAL & Co.,
OOSTERLING hedat REINSURANCE COM Z OF BATAVIA
med having been appointed Hongkong for the shore
y are prepared to grant Sea Bisks on the sunl
BIEMSSEN & CO agast 1, 18667 pmid
Docks, da nak katk
DOCK COMPANY OF * WHAMPOA, LIMITED
y call the attention of Ship Consignees and, Masters of
Establishment at
poa
for the DOOKING
of Vessels of all class, the Company have the the harbour, Granite hilty and of dimensions to 860 feet in lengths and of water it may sylf. {
there are he
Her-makers and ything necessary for the
Versele or Steamers. have also opened a Ship- of the Hongkong Dock, contract for the construc or Sailing Vessels of any
will take
the Company
LITTLE ORPHAN"
to tow Vessels toes, or asonable rates, heoph happly tomu AAN
BOB, S. WALKER fan of Secretaryo vi rë, Queen's Road, Corder
April 8, 1889,
DOCK COMPANY OF AND WHAMPOAph IMITED JARRAI
OTICE. leghe
mpany, having recently heir Docking Establish
FIRST
repared to wor
sture and Repairman of
and for the making or in Machinery (marine ugar crushing, and Redn Shafting, Gearing, and of Factory, or Milkw
work.
in contre of completion, Vessels drawing 18 feet any state of the tide tty are Shears capable of
ROB. S. WALKER,
Secretary
21, 1809.
No: 1074 OCTOBER 5) 1869,};
NOTICE
COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA- RITIMES DES MESSAUERIES IMPERIALES. PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS. STEAM FOR
SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, FOINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ,
ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES
ALSO, 19 BOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS,
AND CALCUTTA
THE Cosipanje Stein-ship IMPERA
TRICE" Commandant MAUAISE, will leave this Port for the above places, with PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and MAILS, CARGO, TUESDAX, fuo,1 12th October
at Noon
the
Cargo and Spears will be registered for london as well as for Marcilles, and in transit through Marseilles for arincipal places of Europe Cargo will be received on board until 4 . of the 11th; Specie, and Parcels until 5 FM of the 11th (Parcels ats not to be ent on board; they not be left at the Agency's Offico.)
ROJ
For Particulars regarding Freight and Patge apply at the Company's office, Hesringer CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED."
BERTRAND, Pimelmat dginie Hongkong, September 21,1800012
PACIFIO MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY
THROUGH U. & MAIL LINE TO NEW YORK.
Post-Office Notifications.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post Office Notifications.
Intimations,
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
C
Intimations.
SERVICE
IT hereby notified that, under the pro I is ons by tech cast Warraut, dated desire to receive payment in the Country in sive of postage) Tis, 12 per annuot; payable
9.-Should the Payes of a Money Order Published weekly. Subscription (HighHINESE PILOTAGE the 7th May, the Postage on a Lekton not which the Order was issued, of some other in advance. exceeding half-an-otice the waight posted Office than that in which the Order was ori in Hongkong or at any of the Parts in ginally drawn the transfer will be granted, Ubiga, and Japan addressed to Egypt, or provided the Onlar be inclosed to the Dusted YP addressed, a. Hongkong or master of the Office in which it was any of the Ports in Chica and Japan, and drawn. In rich see a new Order will be covered in the Meila by British Facket, is isoned, the Commission chargeable upon reduced from. Twenty-four, Conte to Twelve, which will be deducted from the amount of
the new Order??"
For Later exceeding half-an-pungs in 10.In the event of a Money Otof weight further tate of Twelve Dente forniscarrying or being lost, a duplicats will Bach half punon in char Prepagupant of the
be granted on a ritten application from Payee (containing the necessary Particulars, and evcompanied by an addi. Conal Comtrio) to the Office where the Griginal Order Wid payable.
Postmaster Genera Gengal Post Office
Hongkong Jrky 15, 1868.
a
AW REPORTRE FOR THE SUPREME AND
PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA AND JAPAN
HE
it hat
GENERAL REGULATIONS WITH LOCAL RULES
FOR THR
intimations.
Master or his deputies, it will be obligatory on registered Pilot Boats to convey from place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Customs or Barbour Master's Departments with such stores as
He may be wanted for efther Light houses or Light simps
Every Licensed Pilot Boat shall pay a fee of Twenty Taels for renewal of Li-
e
esch
His firat of Thiy year.
Gazette is a General Weekly Rewige? PORT OF SWATOW care of a Pilon going off in an un-
Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular per, containing Officially Baxial Reporte Courts, Police Cases, and Proceedings-to Bankruptcy Original Articles; Notes and Queries on Legal points; Reports of Public Meetings; Nows ofthe Week, Commercial Bomery, ko, da
Advertisements will be charged Tis. 1 its per 10 lince, for each subsequent inser per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50
Shanghai, January, 1867,
NEW BOOK, HE Speculations of
"The Old Philosopher'
LAU-TRZE Translated from the Chinese
tion,
11.-Un the peript of a similar applies IT is hereby notified for general information, orders will be given to stop erment.
tion that henceforward to. Postage, of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed chargeable on Book and Fackets of Patterns Order. The additional Commission in the -- addressed to the United States of Amerion last case will be deducted from the amount transmitted via the Ungdom of How Order 24rders must be be as follows, viz----
presented with the application for a new Order.
Pia SOUTHAMPTON,” Under 4 ounces=Adm Above 4 ounce and not ex-
・ceeding 8 ounce,****** - 24 Above 8 ounce and not ex-
creding sung
Above 12 ounce and, not ex- ceeding 16 cances pr For every additional 4.95, if
12 cents 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
Under 4 onno
t
cent
Above 4 cuppe, and
Above,8 gunge and nat: ex-
ceeding 12 ounos, Above punes and not ex,
TEAMERS of this line will be despatch-ceeding 10 pace,
October 10,
.10.
as follows Japail
Νον. China Grad Raaklis: 11501G ESS, DIE A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or aboos same date, connecting at Yekoliams with above-named steamer,
Pasangersiokete through tó California, Mexico, Central and South America, the Alantic States, and to England or France; both via New York and by lines from Ps. Es and Aspinwall
16
For every additions! 4 oz. Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory in each ca68)
EW, MITCHELL Hostmaster General, General Port Offices an Hongkong, June 18, 1888,
A Money Order should be repaid, to the Remitter or that a Lapsed Order should be rondwed for payment in the Country in which the order was originally drawn, spplication, minst be made to the Chief Money Order Office of such Country: Thie application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless have ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the Completion will be deducted from the amount of the
the New Order.
BY
JOHN-CHALMERS, A.M. Price $1.60. ALBO
**The Origin of the Chinese" by the same author: Price $1.
Apply at Mesara LANE, CRAWFORD & Oq. r The London Mission House
Hongkong, October, 175-18687-
FOR SALE.
AT THE CHINA MAIL" OFFICE
18 -Repayment whether of an original, or renewed, or a implicate Order, will not be made to the remitter until it has been, ascertained that the advice has been pala celled at the Office on which the Crier was originally drawn,
14-Payment of an Order must be ob- tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which it was 'drawn ;
It is hereby notified that, under the au- instance, if drawe in January, phynent thority of a Treasury Warrant, dated the lat must be obtained before the end of July, May last, Superintending, or Turst-Class otherwise the Order will become lapsed, Return tickets issued at a reduction of Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future, and a new Order (for which a secanil Dart- 10% span the whole simount for the rounded to the same pribileges in regard thission, to be deducted from the ulcust to Letters sent by or addressed to them on of the Order; will be chocote Tons are made at Panama with their own private allaire as are at present necessary
Connections Staan Lines upon, the West Coast of Cenjoyed by Cornmissioned Offers in the tral and South America Aspinwall with Army and all Arty Schoolmistresses will the "Royal West India Mail Lane, West be entitled (as Army Schoolmastors of all India And Facilic Bleans ship Company but the First-Class now are to the same Company: And, at Now York at the enjoyed by non-commissioned
Private Soldiera, various lines to Europe Tickets for the following StahipLines: Inman, National General Transatlantic Co., New York and Havre Steam-ship Co. New York and Bremen Steamship Co., and North
If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn for laktatice,
if drawn in January and not paid before
following SETS of the CHINA PUNCH" can be obtained, stitche paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cents Fer copy vis
Price.
15 Br "2
16,38,46 8, 7, 71, 12, 13, 16, 17, wird from 19 to 24 Also a few separate copies of Noa 1, 2
C. A. SAINT."
II sets complete from 11. $4
13
27
$3.50, $4.60.
SAILORS' HUME, WEST POINT.
Trustees.
Hou, W., KESWICK, FORASS, Esq.
JOHN DENT,
HG. THOMES,
Esq., .N
(Limited) and the. French Transatlantic Privileges, in regard to their Totters, are the and of the following January allclaim Hón, H. B. Gra
Aud
Vedrible for through passengers and freight to Ame rice, from Calcutta, Penang and Singapore, and, from Swaton, Amoy and Ropation.
arrangeulerts have e£ìunde
foers and
F. W. MITCHELE, Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 18689 E-
It is hereby notified, by order of flis Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDon, nell, that henceforward, the rates of Pos- tage chargeable, qu. Fackets of Printed from Hongkong to the United Kingdom when forwarded via Southampton, will be as follows
Directors
to the Money will be forfeited, anless, G. J. HELLAND, Esq, under pabuliar cheninstances, the Past G. HEARD, 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 will not be liable to any further claim. If W. a wrong payment, however, be made owing.J. to negligence on the part of any
any Officer of the Post Office, the fastmaster General of
W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. Sasson, Esq. Rey. W. H. BEACH. JPJMORKAY, M.'D.
Committee of Management. Hon. W. Keswick, Chatrnían. MACAULAY, Esq.. | H. G. THOSET,
HELLAND, Esq. Esq., ..
28
registered Boat, he will be authorized to carzy: this Pilot Boat Fig during the time he is on board; but no Pilot is authorised to cruize in an unregistered Boat without special permission from the Barbour hisa- ter
GENERAL REGULATION L 1. Bye-Laws and Local Rules. 1.-Bye-Laws and Bules necessary for the better ordering of pilotage matters at the Ports are to be drawn up by the Bar- bour Master in consultation with the Coutered Boat making use of a Pilot Fing, and
4--The owner or hirer of any RICER also it rests in the same way to fix the numbe prosecuted before the authoritice to aals and Chamber of Commerce, with whom not having a licensed Pilot on board, shall ber of Pilote, tafil of charges, and deline who he is amenable, or whose Flag or the limite of the Pilotage ground
2-3he number of Pilote for the Port of Swatow shall be Bix:
3.The Pilotage ground for the Port of Swatow shall be off Bill lelet to the lower limit of the anchorage Bahchio Point
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The rates of pilotage shall be aa fol- love for all sizel vessels between the limita of the Pilotage ground: steamers or sailing Vessels, $2.50 per fook) English measurement. To Harbour Pilot for Berthing or Unberth- ing 50 cents per foot kuglial ment.
To measure GENERAL REGULATION H. II Pilote Individuals Eligibles The subjects, citizens or proteges of Treaty Power shal equally with Natives of China, and without distaliction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when raandies jet to the General Regulations now issued, occur, by the Board of Appointment, sub
and the Bye-Laws to be under them enforced at the several Ports respectively;
GENERAL
how to be
national Ensign he has the right to use:
5.-A registered Illot Boat is not per witted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when there is either & Licensed Pilot or certificated Ap prentice on board.
GENERAL REGULATION IX. Flags 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 Ühinese Port
A Blue and White Flag (Ne. 2), if from any Foraigh Port,
A Yellow and Blue (No. 10), if the vessel is in ballast,
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the vessel. gunpowder or other combustible op board,
GENERAL REGULATION X. Barbour Pilote: Pessels in Harbour. Berthing, do..
1-The duties of the Barbour Pilot, where anch existe, will be to take charge of vessels at the outer limit of the anchorage, berth them in accordance with the orders. received from the Harbour Mastor's De- partin, going in una gul of vesels shifting
in out deck, to assist and report to the Barbour Bishter's from a wharf pr out of the anchorage, and in Port, and the conservancy of the river Ooo all ipatters concerning the abipping tr harbour,
III. Board of
constructed The Board of Appointment shall consist of the Harbour Master as President, the a) Squier Pilot, and two persons whose names shall be drawn by lot, by the Harberth, going i lished by the Harbour sater in consulta bour Master, from a list prepared and pub tion with the Coneuls and Chambers of Compren
the
GENERAL REGULATION IV. Kacancies; how to be filled up, 1-Whenever there may be a vacavoy ammog the Pilots, it shall be duly notified in the Board of Appointment shall proceed to local, prints; and eight days afterwards
fill it up by a competitive examination.
2-The Board may refuse to admit to the examination any one who, having once been a Licensed Pilot, has had his Lies withdrawn, and also any candidate who is unable to procure Consular Certificates äg to Character, c
The examination shall be publie and gratuitons, and the vacancies shall be given
2.-Ia berthing vessels the Harbour Mas for will, Baf
far as possible, meet the wishes of Commanding Officers and Consignees vessels taking berths not asigned to them, and the entrance, working or clearance ahall be stopped by the Customs until the Harbour Master's orders are complied will
Of
with orders received from the Harbour 3-Vessels are to noor in accordance Master, and they are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4.The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable
to the Larbour Master are as follows
Shifting a reggel's berth; taking a vessel
fall.
THE
to the most competent on the caudito or from hearing down Bulk: $10,.in dates without distinction of nationality, provided always the competency of the first on the list be not relative but absoluto,
TREATY PURTS OF CHINA JAPAN AND NOTES AND 4-The Consul coucerned may in person,
Through Falls of Ling given for Ports Papers or Patterns of light weight cent the Country Gelong which the nogi papers, Clothes, de will be most, by deputy, present and take part in ¿QUERIES ON CHINA AND JAPAN."
and Sh
of Mexico and on the West Coast of Ce tral and South America to sa far sa Valpa raiso, to New York, Laverpool, Southampton
France mited States payable in evi- Dollars, or on delivery in American Gold Com with 8 per cent ad- ditional, at supplore option.
For further inforuation, apply at the Agency of the Company, Praya Weat.
A. HARRIS,
Agent. Hongkong, August 16, 1869.
Post-Oice Notifications.
* It is hereby notifies for general in formation that, the Contract between the Government of Mauritius and the Onion Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance of Mails once a month between Ceylon and between Mauritius and
Mauxili
Natal
germinated, they prijspon- dence for Mauritius will be forwarded from this Office in the Mail for Aden, from whence it will be sent to it destination by the French Mail Rsokaty leaving Adon for Reunion and flauritius on the 23 of each o alteration has book inate in the rates of Postage on correspondence ad dressed to Mauritius,
For a Packet not exceeding one
ounce in weight, For BParket above one and
genoe occurs will, if he see fit, require the Officer in fault to make good the lasa
:
17-No Money Order will be paid unless 2 cents, the advice has been previously received. not exceeding two ounces,....contarity against fraud, and for the better work- 18-Additional Rules for greater secu- and of double these rates when forwarded ing of the ayatem generally will he
IA Marseilles,
be made as occasion may require Packets of
O greater weight than two ounces will remain subject to the same rates
19.Should it appear that Money Orders na are now chargeable, viz. :
are used by mercantile men, or others, either in the United Kingdom or at Hong kung, Shanghai or Yokobama for the transmission of large sums of money; the British or Cplonial Post Offies, as the case may be, will consider the propriety of in- crossing the Commission, and will exercise the power of wholly snapeading for a time the issue of Money Ordera.
8 cents for every four ounces when for warded vid Southampton, and 12 cents for every four ounces whers for
warded via Marseilles.
This alteration will apply to Printed Circulars, Price Lists, Market Reports and all printed papers atlier than Newspapers, as well as to Books and Trade patterns or samples.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, 12th August, 1869.
By Command,
F... MITCHELL Postmaster General. General Post Olice, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
ONATIONY of Books, Perlodicals, News- bankfully retuived.
AQYERBURY, Buperintendents
Hongkong, October 29, 1868.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
T
HIS. Medicine is universally admitted to be the most efficacious remedy
known to the world. No preparation is so suitable to the climates of India and Cline
is
the examination of candidates,
The majority of the votes of the mombers of the Hoard shall decide the admission of candidates for Pilots Li consts, each womber having one vote in the Ballet, but in the absence of the Consul abngerned the Harbour Master s shali have a casting vote.
GENERAL REGULATION V. Pilots Licenses; by whom to be issued.. 1. Pilots Licenses shall be issued by the Commissioner of Customs in the same and on behalf of the Chinese Government; Lt મોં tlus fine and invigorating medicine. It senses issued tu
Piloten particularly adapted to the constitution of China shall subsequently be visad and not being natives of European ladies, as it is never failing in registered at the Consulate concerned. its effects in all discuss peenar to females, Hvery Licensed while those who are attenuated by the de-a printed copy of the General Regulations Pilot shall be given. bucating outs of the above cinstes will and a bill produce the same fnd in this wonderful remedy a kind of te- as well as his License when required. lisman
whereby they may sure a reitor Pilot shall per the sum of Ten Haikuan 3.On the first of July each year every
tion to robust health.
Teels for the renewal of bis License.
GENERAL REGULATION VI. Apprentice Pilots; how to be taken, 1.It shall be allowable for each Licensed Pilot to take an apprentice, for whom he shall be responsible on the application of
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWE
(From the "Straits Times," July 27, 1868.)
Some time ago we had occasion to remak upon the progress that Literature as repre sentad by the Press 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 much pleasure in introdncing to the know- deserves some notice and which we have ledge of our readers. We allude to Nefes and Queries on thing and Japail, pablished China Mait newspaper. This publication monthly by Mr Skint, the proprietor of thie is well printele good and
paper, sad shake is very like its well-known
instie
he containing very curious and ugcial sako or prototype at home, and is equally
Chinees and in a less degree of the Japanese tare, history, manners, and custobis of the information
lion regarding the Language, litera
pays a good deal for the extent apd stability of the fouting of Europeans in should be established and conducted with China that such a publication as this apparently successful vigour.
it
a
The publication is altogether a yery in-
we commend it to the attention and support 2-When the circumstances of the Port of our readers.
HOLLOWAYS OINTMENT. The science of Medicane has never before produced any remedy that can be compared to this wonderful Dintinent, as it cures after all other means barn failed, all wounds, sotee, silgers, and also the most Pilots, the Harbour Master will supply Apteresting, one, and wishing it every success, CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE.
inveterite skin diseases peculiar to the cli-prentices with special certificatos. The following Regulations for Street-mates of India and China. It is the true Chairs and Chair-Coolies, bear date Colo- friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as cer appear to demand it, the Harbour Master zial acretary's Office, Hongkong, Zud tain old sores can be removed by it that may authorize apprentices to act tempora cannot be conquered by any other treat rily and within certain limits, as Pilots
provided they have received certificates of Hongkong, Febrowy 1, 1867.
from the Board of Appoint if competency
mcpt.
GENERAL REGULATION VII. Licensed Pilots; to whom subordinated, Unlicensed Piloting, Ce.
1. On the 1st October next, and thenes- forward Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shuanghai and Yokohama or all than Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange April, 1860. Current for Each Mail, and charged with There are two Classes of Street Chairs, ment. porzespondence for those Colonies; uno Cominission according to the following street-Chairs may carry persons who
and Special Scale, viz. H
5.9 as the communication with Natal and the Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, the
barked to be forwarded by Private Ship Svillin fature, be sent in the Mails for London at the following rates of Portago, Which must be paid in advance, vir Upon Letters sent by way of Southampton,
46 penta each o When sent by way of
Newspaper vit Southam
Newspapers vié Marseil
1
6
22
"}
25
31
Cente
For mums not exceeding £2,12 Abaye £2 and not exceeding £ 5,...24 742 £10,...48 2-No Money Order to include a frac tional part of a Penay
3-Orders drawn in the United Kingis dora pot Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko
Iba paid at tlie rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at -the time of their presentation...
4.Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Money Order Offices in the United King Book Fackets via South-
ampton.................. 10 1.,,
dom, shewing the Counties in which they under 4 oz, 20 vente, above 4 oz., and not ex- are situated, are hung up for public refer ceading 8 on an 20 cents for every noe at this Office, and also at Shanghal
and Yokohama additional 8 62, 1
Bank Packet vid Mamelles, 14 conta
ander 4 oz.; 28 cents above for and not razõeeding 8 oz.; and 28 cents for every
additional 8 ounces
FW. MITCHELL, Postmaster General Geral Post Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1869,
kuse engaged them up to any hour, but Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after furat guthfire
var Spacial Chairs ¡ after mitt
As Special Chaim are secured for a higher for the interest of the Public sum ($60) than Ordinary Chairs ($25), it only the former after gunfire, th
engage Bach Street-Chair cherics a Number, aud its two Coolies' a. Badge each, bearing the same Number as the Chair,
10
The Numbers and Coolies Badges of Special Chairs are White, (1 to 200),
NOW READY, (AT THE "OBINA MAIZ
PRICE $1.00.
THE
OFFICE.)
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
MANUAL.
Handbook of referencs for the deter
1.-Liceused Pilots may carry on their that the contributors include E
2
(From the London Beaminet," May 16, 1888.)
5.Applicants for Money. Orders any Street Chair-Cholfe, the person age,&c. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE Concerned may be suspended or dismissed of China and Japan"] is intended as a
the
:
Author's Preface.
The Numbers, and Confies' Budges of Amination of Chinese Dates, during the Ordinary Chairs are Blue, (201 to 700).
period from 1860 to 1869; with comparativo. When ground of Complaint arises against Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, must grieved furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, red may either band the offuder over BIOK MAYZES, H.M.C
Police, or send a memorandum of initial, of one Christian name, both of the complaint and the Chair's Number to the Bemitter and the Payes; if the Remit- the Registrar General. ter or Payee be a Peer or & Bishop, his or When Street Chair-Coolies are suspected dinary title will be sufficient, if a frin, the of having retained missing property, the nsual designation of auch firm, ssh as Number of their hair should be sent to Baring Brothers" whil suffice; but the the Registrar General at once without any mere term Mesa, such as Messi. Ri-loss of time
or the name of a Company trad- vington
This really useful volume [Treaty Portia
and Japan, and as a book of reference for guide for travellers and residents in China mercantilo men generally It contains an account, historical and political, of all the open ports of these countries, together with Faking, Yeda, Hongkong and Macao. It Mr N. B. Denoys; and the elaborate maps has been carefully compiled and edited by
considerably enbence its value. ****
(From the Friend of India," June 4,11888.) We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the number for the current year of Notes and Queries," most deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr N. B. Dennys, whose "Treaty Ports of China and Japan" are so well known. From the names attached to the "Notes"
SRB can res business either singly or in Companies. best Chinese scholars in the East
of the They must pay due respect to the wishes terest is not gonned to Chiva, 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 fl placed, and who is invested with power to subject of Buddhism and its literaturs, and suspend or dispise, subject to an appeal to generally to all who are interested in ori the Cousul converfied; when the Pilot is ental antiquifics. It deserves to be beater Foreigner, the appeal.
Ho
be lodged within known in India. three days. Consular punishment has been inflicted, or -If guilty of any misconduct for which if proved to have committed any offence against Revenue Laws, the individual by the Harbour Master, subject to an ap peal to his Consul a Foreigner, the appeal to he ledged within three days. Most persons whose avocations or studies 3.Any one piloting without a License, are connected even remotely with Chinese shall be subject to prosecution before his subjects are wont to confess the need of sown authorities, who will deal with the convenient manual of reference for the pur-offender in bocordance with the soft pose of determining dates according to Country. Any
f he proceeded against and dealt of computation; and a system of compari- with in the same way, in addition to forfeit sun for the names attributed to years,ing bis License. moutbe, and other perioda is also frequent -Any Commanding Officer employing a desideratum with trauslators and an unlicensed person to pilot his vessel readers of Chinese literature. The com will be liable to be fined in the sum of One pilor of the following tables has thought, Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose accordingly, that their publication in jurisdiction he is amenable.. much yet remains to be done for the Convenient form
may prove useful, although GENERAL REGULATION VIII.
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Pilot Boats Regulations to be observed.
Peking, the aspital, are so intereses ration
contain so much that is new to comparative calendars, etc. that should leave nothing to be desired. With
1-Pilot Busts shall be registered with readers respecting its history, public ball the exception of the Cyclical Table of where each bost will be given a certificate would fain transfer them to our eclumns, their crew at the Harbour Master's Office, dings, and general characteristice, that we Morrisut, and afterwards republished with painted at the stern, and on the head of the accurate notion of the relative position of Years, and the Table of Solar Terms, both and number. The words Licensed Pilot A complete and intelligible plan of the Im of which were originally compiled by Dr. Bost" shall, with the number, be legibly parial Clly and neighbourhood, gives us aft improvatueute in Williams Comp.ercial Mainssal and a flag, of which the upper its divisione, streets, and they are now copied, the whole of the mat lower green, shall be flown. Such register of the Treaty Ports of Japan will be found Guide, from which (with Aome alteration) borizontal half shall be yellow, and the
places In the introductory charter to the noticed tor assembled in the following pages is for ed Pilot Boats shall deposit their national a succinct history of that Empire, together the first time inade accessible to general papers with their Consul or the Custafos with remarks on its government, geography, they shall be at liberty to move freely and buite which will be found particularly within the Umits of the Port and Pilotage Interesting as throwing a considerable light Published by C. A. SAINT, China Mail ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on part of the world to long entirely, and Office, Hongkong
du. On the requisition of the Harbour 1 till comparatively, unknown to Europeans,
Eael Street-Chair carries on the back of either the European of the Chinese method another wil Pilot lending his License tod plans, with which the work abounds,
LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, CHAIR BEARERS, AND BURTS,.
It is hereby notified for general informa tion that henceforward closed inalis for the ing under a title which does not consist of its Number Board a Tariff of Fares.com
the names of the persons composing it, such densed from the following. United Kindom will be made up at this na Carron Co. is inachoisible. Office and forwarded in London by the Une The Remitter or stating that the Or- ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco. der is to be paid only through & Bank, to Correspondence intended to be forwarded have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the Payee in ob oase, the Order will be oromet in the same way that
by his route must be addressed via San
Letters, Newspapers, Booksand Patterns,
will be liable to the same rates of postage
those sent by the British Mail Packets
Via Sonthampton vit --
For Letters, 24 cents por half-ounce,
For each Newspaper not exceeding
Poitiers, 4 cents.
Para packet of Books or Patterns, 8 cents per 4 ounces,
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The Postage must in all cases be paid in advance; correspondence not fully prepaid will be sent via Suez
FW. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office Hongkong February 1, 1860.
IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG. Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Bouts.
Cheques are commonly crossed when they Half hour,12 ct. Three hours, 50 cts, are intended to be paid through a Bank. Hoor, 20 cts. Six hours, 76 ota.
7.When an Order is presented through Day (from 6 to 6)........ Bank, a receipt by any person will be auf Night Fares (after 8p.s.) ficient, provided the Order be crossed with
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One Dollar. 10 ots, extra the name of the receiving Bank, and be Beyond Victoria and back, 50 cts, per man.
Chair Hire to Out Districts, presented by some Person known to be in To Stanley and hack, the employ of auch Bank
Victoria lies below the level of Robinson The signature of ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, the Payee of a Mo Road, and includes all the town between place provided for the purpose. If the with the Race-comite, Payee be unable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence
of Withese, who artist sign his name, with
Licensed Bearers (each); Hour, Half day,
8 cents.
20 sants.
Day
!!!
his address in the presence of the. Oficor.
who pays the Order
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We have thus given in outline some of the more prominent portions of the chapter devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the whole volume. Other chapters treating of the remainder of the treaty port, we can Macao, Formosa, Ningpo, Shanghae, and The pages describing
only enumerate.
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