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INSURANCE COMPANY
mg Rates will be charged ins or short period Insuranooty -
10 days, of the annual 1month,
And not
months,
tha and
annual rate.
he Queen Insurance, Company, May 20, 1868.
BURANCE COMPANY OF N FRANCISCO,
igned, Agents for the above And prepared to grant Poli EE, on BUILDINGS”"id" rent rates on
RUSSELL & Co, February 6, 1867
& FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
gned having been appointed. Hongkong for the above are prepared to great Bar CARINKS, at currentraión.
RUSSELL & Co. april 1, 1866, UZZINGA
INSURANCE ASSOCIA- OF SHANGHAL
ranted on Marine bukse to
the world at current r the naus
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BAINAL&Co.
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having been pp Hongkong for the yard prepared" "to" BBs Risks on the
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the Company will take
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loe, Queen's Road, Corner
3 April 8, 1869,
DOCK COMPANY OF"
AND WHAMPOA, SIMIVVED. YOUR Mga ta
NOTICE.
ompany, having recently their Booking. ErN FIRST CLASS prepared to furnial Ten ature and Replinindf end for the making for Mecbinary (macine Sugar crashing and Refin Shafting Gearing, and
Millwor of Factory, of Mill, WorA
in-course of completion,
a Vessels drawing 18" food
at any states of the tide
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1868
STEAM FOR
Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle, Aden, Suez, Malta, Marseilles, and Southampton; ALSO, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta,
HE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam ship f EMBU Oaptain J. C. BABU, with Her Majesty's Maile, Passengers, specse, atd Cargo, will leave this for the shove places, o TUESDAY, the 19th October, at 9. AM PARCELS and CARGO will be received on board until Noo, and SPECIE antil 4 PA on the 18th Uctober
For particulars regarding freight and Passage, apply at the P&O. S. N. Co. Obe, Hongkong wall and
ONTENTE AND VALDE OF PACKAGEŃ
RE REQUIRED.side Ingwritten destoration of the Conten's and Value of the Packages for the Cherland Notte
Post Office Notifications.
All transactions in fractional parts of a Dol- lar will be conducted in the Colna pre- scribed by Ordinance 1 of 1864, and the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, and no other Colas, but those therein specified will either be received dr given in change as fractional parts
4 Dollar ayment for Portage Stamps must be made in the current Dollars of the Colony or Bank Noter Money Orders on any of the Money Order ya, Uffices in the United Kingdoni, will be
granted until PPM on the 18th Oct thened
F. W, MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong,
October 19, 1869. Delber
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Ordar,
9. Should the Payee of a Money Order caire to repoive payment in the Country in which the Order was issued, at koips other Office than that in which the Order was uri ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Postmaster of the Office in which it was irawn. In mich case a new Order will be isted, the Commission chargeable
прод which will be deducted from the amount of the new Order
10. In the event of a Money Order miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will be du a written applestion from
granted the Payce, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an addi MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES MAIL PACtional Commission) to the Office, where the
Original Order was payable, JAPAN
MAILS WILL WOME
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For YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE UNITED STATES AND, THE UNITED KINGDOM;- · |... Per the United States Mul Packet JAPAN," on TUESDAY, the 19th September, at 2 r.M The Rater of Postage on Correspondence forwarded by this opportunity, which suust in each caso be paid in advance, are as ful-
is required by the Egyption Government, and low Yokohama, Sun Francisco and the
with
the Com must be delivered by the Shippers to pany's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or Parcels; and the Company do not hold theweet zsponsible for any detention o prejudice which may happen from incorrect- sa on such declaration; og marka 201
rare particularly requested to note
the terms and conditions of the Company's
Aldek Bius of Lading, NEMAN
W MACAULAY, Superintendent.
P. & 0.8. N. Co,'s Office, Hongkong Oct. 8, 1869,
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PACIFIC MAI STEAM-SHIP
COMPANY... 12. MAIL LINE TO NEW YORK,
Via Panama e Overland Route, "
TEAMERS of this line will be despatch-
od as follows
Japan China,
October 19,
Nov. .19. America, Dro 18
A Steamer will leave: Shanghai on or about same date, connecting at Yokohama with above-named steamer.
Pagedagers ticketed through to Califormis, Mexico, Central and South America, and by Overland Route to princips points in the United States and Canadas, and necting it: the various Steam lines for New York, to Liverpool, Southampton, Bremen, Brest, and Havre,
to New Through Tickets issued also Tork and Europe via Panama Route and
To
United States,
For Letters & cents per half-ounce
For each Newspaper not exceeding
ounces, 2 cents.
For a Packet of Books, 6 cents per
4
4
Intimations
Published weekly.--Satscription (Exclu Esive of postage) Tls. 12 per annum ; payable
in advance.
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
AND
LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPERICK AND PROVINCIAL COUETS OF CHINA
AND JAPAN
C
Intimations.
intimations,
HINESE PILOTAGE Master or his deputies, it will be obligatory on registered Pilot Hoats to convey from SERVICES
place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Customs or Harbour GENERAL REGULATIONS
Master's Departments, with such stures as may he wanted for either Light-houses or · WITH LUCAL RULES
Light-ships. FOR THE
THE Gazette in a General Weekly Now PORT OF SWATOW. of Casch beard at the Supreme and Consular
per, containing Officially Revised
Reports
Courts, Police Cases, and Proceedings in Bankrupter Original Articles; Notes and Queries on Legal Meetinga, New of the Wook, Commercial points; Hoports of Public Summary, &, c
Advertisements will be charged Tls. 1 per la linea for the first insertion, and 50
cts, per 10 lines, for each subsequent inser- tion.1
Shanghai, January, 1867-
NEW BOOK
12- the receipt of a similar applica tion, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed Order. The additional Commission in the RE peontations of last case will be deducted from the amount of the now Order. Lapsed Orders must be presented with the application for a new Urder,
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 Manoy Order should be repaid to the Remittery or that a Lapsed. Order should be renewed for payment in the Country in which the Under was originally draw application must be made to the Chief Money Order Offles of such Country: This additional Commission, unless it have re- application must be accompanied by an
To the United Kingdom⠀⠀⠀⠀ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the Commission will be deducted from the For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce. For each Newspaper not exceeding amount of the New Order.
ounces, cauta...
Ounces
Book Packets must not exceed to feet in length or one foot in width or depti
For a Packet of Books or Patterns, &
cents per 4 ounces. Correspondence addressed to Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States must be superscribed
and that addressed to the United Kingdoin must be superscribed pic San Francisco. Correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom Lot fully propaid will be sent via Bus
.:
MITCHELL, Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, October 7, 1869.
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or
The Old Philosopher'
LAU-TSZE." Translated from the Chinese
JOHN CHALMERS, A.M. Price $1.50.
AERO, The Origin of the Chinese" by the same Author: Price $1.
Apply at Mesars LANE, CRAWFORD & Co, or The London Mission House
Hongkong, October 17; 1868,
FOR SALE
AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE, THE following SETS of the "OH IN A PUNGM" can be obtained, stitched in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 centa per copy viz
No.
13.-Repayment whether of an original, renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the remitter until it has been ascertained that the advice has been can 11 sets complete from 31. celled at the Ofice on which the Order was originally drawn, a phy
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Every Licensed Filot Boat shall pay a too of Twenty Taels for renewal of "Li- cense on the first of July each year,
In case of i Pilot, going off in an un- registered Boat, he will be authorized to carry the Filot Boat Flag during the time he is on board; but no Pilot is authorised to eruize in an unregistered Boat, without
ez. special permission from the Harbour Maa-
GENERAL REGULATION I. I. Bye-Laws and Local Rules.
the better ordering of pilotage matters at 1-Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for the Ports are to be drawn up by the Har
4-The owner or hirer of bour Blaster in consultation with the Contered Boat making use of a Pilot Fing, and of any uuregia- suis and Chamber of Commerce, with whom not having a Licensed alot on board, shall also it rests in the same way to fix the sun be prosecuted before the authorities to ber of Pilots, tariff of obarges, and define whom he is amenable, or whose Flag or tire limits of the Pilotage ground.
national Ensign he has the right to uso. The number of Filots for the Port of Swatow bhall be six,
3The Pilotage ground for the Port of Swatow shall be of Bill Laiet to the lower limit of the anchorage Bahchio Point.
The rates of palotage shall be as fol lows for all sized vessels between the limita of the Pilotage ground: steamers or sailing vessels, $2.50 per foot English measurement. To larbour Pilot for Berthing or Unberth- 3ng, 60 couts per foot Hzglish measure- ment,
GENERAL REGULATION II, II. Pilots-Individuals Eligible. The subjects, citizena e protegés of Tresty. Powers aball, equally with Natives of China, and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies occur, by the Board of Appointment, sub. ject to the General Regulations now issued, and the Bye-Laws to be under them enforced at the several Parts respectively,
NRRAL HEGULATION III. III. Board of Appointment, how to be constricted.
5.A registared Filot buat is not per mitted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when thayo is either a Licensed Filut or certificated Ap prentice on board.
GENERAL REGULATION FX. Flags to be exhibited on arrival. shall cause to be exhibited-
When nearing the anchoage the Pilot
A Red and White Flag (No. 3), if the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Port
A Blue and White King (No.: 2), if from any Foreign Port.
A Yellow and Blue (No. 10), if the vessel is in ballast,
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the vessel has gunpowder or other combustibles on board.
GENERAL REGULATION X Barbour Pilats Vessala in Harbour Berthing, dc.
1. The duties of the Harbour Pilot, where auch exists, will be to take charge of ressels at the outer limit of the anchorage, berth them in accordance with the orders
The Board of Appointment shall consister
$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 partment, take charge of vessela abifting $2.95,
bertli, names shall be drawn by lot, by the Har-
a what or out of the anchorage, and lished by the Harbour Master in consults tion with the Consuls and Chambers of Comnierce.
Also a few separate copies of Nos. 1, 2, bour Master, from a tist prepared and mut I from going in and out of dook, or to and
Q. A. SAINT,
tained before the und of the Sixth Calendar 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and from 19 to 24. Month after that in which it was drawn: for pistance, if drawn in January, payinent must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Order will became lapsed, and
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT.
new Order (for which a second Com
Trustees. mission, to be deducted from the amount Bon. W. Keswick, FORDES, Eag of the Order, will be charged) will become
H. G. THOMSET, JOHN DENT, necessary.
Ksq., B. N.
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GENERAL REGULATION IV. Vacancies: how to be filled up.. 1.- Whenever there may be a vacancy amnog the Pilote, it shall be duly notified in the Board of Appointment shall proceed to the local prints and oight days afterwards
fill it up by a competitive oxamination.
2-The Board may refuse to admit to examination any one who, hacing once the W. MADAULAY, Esq.boun a Licensed Pilot, bas had his Liconze withdrawn, and also any candidate who is D. SASSOON, Esq.
unable to procure Consular Certificates as to Character, &c.
Directors
It is hereby notified for general informa tion that henceforward closed mails for the United Kindom will be made up at this
15.-If an Order be not paid before the Office and forwarded to London by the Un- and of the Twelfth Calendar Month after ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco.that in which it was drawn, for instance, Hon. H. P. Gia,
Correspondence intended to be forwarded if drawn in January and not paid before G. J. HELLAND, Eag. to Europe per steamers of the Royal May this route must be addressed via San the end of the following January all claim G. BEARD, Esq. Steam P. ckut Company, the West India Francisco,"
to the Money will be forfeited, unless, W. Lewann, Esq. and Pacific Steamship
Letters, Newspapers, Booktan Pattorna,ander peculiar circunstances, the Fast Office of the Country in which the Order
|_ Transatlan-
and The Compagnie Général Limited,
? tight fróin Aspinwall direct Connections will be liable to the same rates of postage tade at Panama with Steam lines upon thee those sent by the British Mail Fackets
via Southampton viz. West Coast of Central and South America,
by which passengers are ticketed through.
Through Bills of Lading given for Freight via Ceutral Pasifo Railroad and its con tions to the principal points in the United States and Cananas and for Freight Overland for England and the Continent.
Through Bills of Lading given als for New York aud-Europe via Panama route, and to Europe via Aspinwall Lines to porte rol México sad porta on the West Coast of America to se Central America, and South America to
B
For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounce. For eacb Newspaper not exceeding unere, 4 centa,
For a packet of Books or Patterns, Bcouts par 4 ounces.
The fostage must in all cases be paid in advance; correspondence not fully prepaid will be sent via Suez.
W. MITCHELL, Fostraster General." General Post Offics, Hongkong February 1, 1869.
was drawn think proper to allow it.
Rev. W, K. BEACH, J. J. MORRAY, M, D,
Committee of Management, Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairman
10. After once paying a Money Order W. MADAULA, 8. H. G. THOMSETT, by bananever presented, the paying Office G. J. HELLANT, Esq. Esq., v. will not be liable to any further claim. If
wrong payment, however, bo mate owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Offico, the Postmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negli gence occurs will, if he see fit, require the Officer in fault to make good the loss.
17.-No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received.
18-Additional Rules for greater secu- rity against fraud, and for the better work- It is hereby notified that, under the an- thority of a Treasury. Warrant dated the sting of the system generally will be made MAY ·last, Superintending, or First-Claas Schoolmasters in the Army:
will, in future,
as occasion may requirere due PL
ONATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News D
papers, Clothes, e, will be most hankfully received,
A. OVERBURY,
Superintendent
Hongkong, October 29, 1868.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT, HOLLOWAY'S PILLS,
3.-The oxamination shall be public and gratuities, and the vacancies shall be given to the most competent, among the candl
dates without distinction of nationality, provided always the competency of the first the list be not relative but absoluto.: 4.The Consul concorned may in person, or by deputy, be
present and take
part in the examination of candidates.
to assist and report to the Barbour Master's Office all matters concerning the shipping L'ort, and the conservancy of the river or harbour.
in
2.In berthing vessels the Harbour Mis ter will, as far as possible, meet the wishes of Commanding Officers and Consignees 1 and the entrance, working or clearance of
shall be stopped by the Customs until the taking berths not assigned to them, Tessela
Harbour Master's orders are complied with. 3. Yeseals are to moor in accordatics with orders received from the Harbour Master, and they are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4-The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable
to the Harbour Mastor are as follows
Shifting a vessel's berth; taking a vessul to or from a heaving down. Hulk, $10, in full.
HE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA & JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND QUERIES ON URINA AND JAPAN," EXTRẬеrs, YŔÓM REVIEWS.
The majority of the votes of the nombers of the Board aball decide the (From the "Stress Times," July 27, 1668.) admission of candithics for Filots' Li-
Some thue a
ago we had occasion to remark censes, each inember baring one vote in the upon the progress that Literature as repre- Ballot,
mutiti tho obecs of the Consul seated by the Press Dan made and was concerned the Harbour Master shall have a making in the East, and our attention has casting-vuto.
again buon called to the subject by the re-.
of ધ Hongkong publication which deserves some notice and which
We Бате much pleasure in introducing to the know- ledge of our readers. We allude to Notes and Queries on (hina and Japan, published monthly by Mr Saint, the proprietor of China Muil newspaper.
This
publication is well printed on good papaud in and shape is very like its well-known naine sake or prototype
ious and useful very curioue information regarding the language, litera- ture, history, isauers and customs of the Chiness and in a less degree of the Japanese. It says a good deal for the extent an stability of the footing of Europeans in China, that euch a publication as thia should be established and conducted with apparently successful vigour.
GENERAL REGULATION V. 3 Favorable arrangements have been made
Pilots Licenses by whom to be issued. for through passengers and freight to Ams
to be the most efficacious remody 1-Pilots' Licenses shall be issued by the rics from Uslisitta, Pedang and Singapore,
Medicine is universally admitted known to the world. No preparation is so Commissioner of Customs in the name and and from Swatow, Amoy and Fouchow,
19-Should it appear that Money Orders suitable to the climates of India and China on behalf of the Chinese Government; Li- All: Fraight payable in adance in Mexi-
Pilots to not being natives Bs this fine and invigorating medicine. It censes issued can Dollars, zor on delivery u American be entitled to the same privileges in regard are used by merantile men, or others, is particularly adapted to the constitution of China shall subsequently be vised and Gold Coin with 8 per peut el itional, at to Letters sent te afairs as are at present kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the its effects in all diseases peculiar to females,
or addressed to them on either in the United Kingdom at Houg of European ladies, as it
as it is never failing in registered at the Consulate concerned. their own private hipper's option.hiphay thu
2-Every Licensed. Pilot shall be given tattutorn some any and all Army Schouinaistresses will British or Colonial fust Office, as the case thuat Local Rules nud shall produce at home, and is equally
eruca Passage Tickets issued at are enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the transmission of large sums of monoy, the while those who are attenuated by the dea printed copy of the General Regulations
be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all may be, will consider the propriety of in- but the First-Class now are) to the same areasing the Commission, and will exercise Gnd in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta--as well as his License when required. privileges, in regard to their Letters, are the power of wholly suspending for x time, whereby they may insure a restera. enjoyed by non-commissioned licera, and Private Soldiers. TA HARRIS,
·Agent.
for the Round Voyager 1
For further information as to Passare and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Far-Company, Fraya West
"
Hongkong, October; 7, 1869.
"Post-Once Notlications.
"MAILŃ BY THE "EMRU”—
for the reception of
V. W. MITCHELL, Pastmaster General, Conoral Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 1868,
On the lat, Uctober next, and thence-
the issue of Money Orders.
By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General," General Post Officà, Hongkong, 22nd Augnat, 1868.
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE,
The Contract Packet EMBU" will be forward Money Orders will be issued at
dispatched with the usual Mail, for this Office and at the Agencies thereof at The following Regulations for Street Europe, da, on TUESDAY, the 19th Shanghai and Yokohains on all the Money Chairs and Chair-Coolies, bear data Colo- *** October, pt 9 A., and the Post Office Order Ofices in the United Kingdom of nial Sucretary's Office, Hongkong, 2ud
will be open
April, 1869, Britain and Iroland, for amounts not Great Ordinary Letters, Letters for Registri exceeding 10, at the rate of red 36 Ordinary and Special.
There are two Classes of Street Chairs, tion, Newspapers, Books, &c., until 8 Current for Each Mail, and charged with on the 18th October, Letters Commission socording to the following
postel in the night:box Scale, viz. from 8 on the 18th October until For suma not exceeding $2,19
Above £2 sad not exceeding £ 5.24- 7. on the following morning
£6
£7.42 £10.48 27
be
All Letters posted between 7 and 8 A.M.
11
Cente
base engaged them up to any hour, but All Street-Chairs may carry persons who Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after first gunfire (8 r.a.), nor Special Chairs after midnight.
Special Chairs are secured for a higher 2.No Money Order in include a fracun ($60) than Ordinary Chairs ($26), it is for the interest of the Public to sugage tional part of a Penny,
only the farmer after gunfire.
on the 19th October will be charge able, in addition to the usual postage, with a Late Fee of 18 vents. The latest time for posting Letters at this 3,Ordere draw in the Cited King Office is 8 AM, and for Nuwspapers, doin upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko- Books, or Patterns 7:2. on the 19th bama, will be paid at the rule of Exchange Further, inte letters (but Letters only) saat which Money Orders ore being saved at
the time of their presentation. dressed to the United Kingdom vit 4Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700
October
Marselles or to Singapore, huay be Money Order Offices in the United King posted on board this Packet from 6.50 dom, shewing the Counties in which they
Each Street-Chair carries a Number, and the
its two Goulies 3 Badge each, bearing
The Numbers and Coolies Badges of same Number as the Chair, Special Chairs are White, (1 to 200)
Ordinary Clinirs are Blue, (201 to 700).
The Numbers and Coolles Badges of
tion to robust health.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.
3.Ou the first of July each year every Pilot shall pay the sum of Teu Haikwan Taels for the renewal of his License.
GENERAL REGULATION VI. The science of Medicine bus never before Apprentice Pilute; how to be taken.
1.It shall be allowable for each Liceused produced any remedy that can be compared to this wonderful Ointment, as it cures lot to take an apprentice, for whom he after all other means have failed, all shall be responsible; on the
wounds, sores, ulcers, and aleo the most Pilots, the Harbour Mastercation of
inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the cli-prentices with special certificates. mates of India and China. It is the true friend of the Soldier and Civilion, as cer- thin old sores can be removed by it that cannot be conquered by any other treat
Hongkong, February 1, 1867,
ment.
NOW READY,
(AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFIE) PRICE $1.00.
THE
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
MANUAL.
tf
ment.
BJavan "
are
The publication is altogether a very in- will apply Ap-teresting one, and wishing it every success, we commend it to the attention and support 2.When the circumstances of the Port of
four readers. appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorize apprentices to act tempora. (From the Friend of India," June 4, 1868.) vily and within certain limits, as Filots;
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt have received certificates of of the numbers for the current year of they provided competenoy from the Board of Appoint Notes, and Queries," a moat deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr. GENERAL REGULATION VII.
whose "Treaty Ports of China Licensed Pilota; to whom subordinated, and..
20 well known. From the Unlicensed Piloting, de..
names attached to the "Notes" we can see 1.-Licensed Pilots may carry on their that the contributors include some of the business either singly or in Companies best Chinese petiolars in the East. Its in- They must pay due respect to the wishes torest is not confined to Cbins, and it will arul 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 and who is invested with power to subject of Buddhism and its literature, and suspend or diamis, subject to an appeal to generally to all who are interested in ori- the Consul concerned, when the Pilot is a ental antiquities. It deserves to be better Foraigner, the appeal to be lodged within known in India. three days.
2-lf guilty of any misconduct for which
(From the London Examiner," Muy Consular punishment has been inflicted, or
16, 1868.) if proved to have committed any offence This really useful volume [Treaty Ports concerned may be suspended or dismissed guide for travellers and residents in China by the Harbour Mater, subject to an ap and Japan, and as a book of reference for peal to his Consul. If a Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged within three days.
placed,
Handbook of reference for the deter
miustion of Chiness Dates, during the period from 1860 to 1809; with comparative When ground of Complaint arises against Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, grieved may either hand the offender over RICK MAYERS, H.M.C.S. to the Police, or send a memorandum of 6.Applicanta for Money Orders must Sealed Boxes containing the sorrespondence farish, in fall, the surname, and, at least, the complaint and the Chair's Number to
of Box Holders will be received at the the initial of one Christian name, hoth of the Registrar General,
When Street Chair-Coolies are suspected
of 48 centa each in addition to the ence at this Oilies, and also at Shanghai any. Street Chair-Coolle, the person age, &o Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE- against Revenuo Laws, the individual of China and Japan"] is intended as a
-1 to 816014.m on payment of a late for are situated, are hung up for public refer-
postago, after which no Lettere can be and Yokohama. received..
the East Side of the building.
#
CHAIN BEARERS, AND Boštaj - -
IN THE COLONE OF HONGKONG.
this United Kingdom will be sent on, ⠀⠀ obeyed with a line of One Shilling in
addition to the postage.
the names of the persons composing it, such LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, Leiters ported i efter. on the 18th Carron Co," insdmissible.
forwarded unless October will not be
The Remitter on stating that the Or- the Late Fee as well as the pustage is der in to be paid only through a Bank, to
Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Boats. have the option
of giving or withdrawing propalit. Letters insuficiently stamped or unatamped the name of the Payee; in stigh case, the Half hour, 12 ets. Three hours, 50 eta addressed to places to which they can: Order will be grossed in the same way that Hour 20 cts: Six hours.75 sts. not the forwarded unpaid, will be open Chequea are commonly aroused when they Day. (from 6 to 6), Une Dallar, ed and returned to the writers as early are intended to be paid t through a Bank.
Night Fares (after 8 P.M.): 10 cts, extri possible, but no guarantee can beWhen an Order is presented through
Chair Fire to Out Districts: gitan that such Letters, if posted after Bank, a receipt by any person will bostit Beyond Victoria and back, 50 cte. per tonu.
the Omler he crossed with To Stanley and back, 60 provided
NB
4any Commanding Officer employing as adisoned person to pilot his resend will be liable to be fined in the sum of One Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose Jurisdiction he is amenable.
mercantile men generally. It contains an
Author's Preface.
Any one piloting without a license, account, historical and political, of all the window set apart for the purpose, one Remitter and the Payee; if the Remit of having retained missing property, the are connected even remotely with Chinese own authorities, who will deal with the has been carefully compiled and edited by
Most persons whose avocations or studies
shall be subject to prosecution before hir Peking, Yede, Hongkong, and Macao. It open ports of these countries, together with
ter or Payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his or Number of their Chair should be sent to subjects are wont to confess the need of a All correspondence for places to which pre-dinary title will be sufficient, if a firme, the
convenient manual of reference for the pur-offender in accordance with the Laws of his Mr N. B. Dennys; and the elaborate maps payment is compulsory must be prepaid usual designation of such firm, such as the Registrar General at once without any pose of determining dates according to Country: Any Pilot lending his License to and plans, with which the work abounds, in Hongkong Postage Stampa
Baring Brothers" will suffice it the loss of time,
Each 'Street-Chair carrier on the back of of computation; and a system of compared with in the same way, in addition to forfeit considerably enhance its vabın.. *** either the European or the Chinese method another will be proceeded against and dealt BeMestra, Ri- Insufficiently-atamped Letters addressed to mere term Messrs., anch
We have thus given in outline some of ing his License. Compitny tradita Number Board a Tariff of Fares con- son for the names attributed to yeara, rington," or the name of a
the more prominent portions of the chapter. devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the also frequent and other periode ing under a title which does not consist of densed from the following.
months
ya desideratum with translators and
whole volume. Other chapters treating of readers of Chinese literature. The com-
Macao, Formosa, Ningpo, Shanghas, and of the following tables has thought,
the remainder of the treaty ports, we can Pendingly that their
publication in a
only enumerate. The pages describing GENERAL REGULATION VIII... convenient form may prove useful, although
Peking, the capital, are so interesting, and Pilot Boats: Regulations to be observed. much yet remains to be done for the elabo
contain so
so much that is now to European ration of comparative calendars, etc. that 1-Pilot Boats shall be registered with readers respecting its history, public bully should leave nothing to be desired. With their crews at the Harbour Master's Office, dings, and general characteristics, that we the exception of the Cyclical Table of where each boat will be given a certificate would fais transfer then to our columna Years, and the Table of Solar Terms, both and number. The words Licensed Filot A complete and intelligible Morrison, and afterwards republished with painted at the stern, and on the head of the accurate notion of the relative position of ood, gives us st
Guide, from which (with some alteration) borizontal half shall be yellow, and the In the introductory chapter to the notices they are now copied, this whole of the mats lower green, shall be flown. Such register of the Treaty Ports of Japan will be outd tor assembled in the following pages is for od Pilot Boats shall deposit their national succinct history of that Empire, together the Brat time made accessible to general papers with their Consul or the Customs; with remarks on its government, geography, they shall be at liberty to move freely and limits, which will be found particularly within the limits of the Port, and Pilotage interesting as throwing a considerable light Published by O. A. SAINT, China Mail ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on a part of the world so long entirely, and Office, Hongkong.
Bues. On the requisition of the Harbour still comparatively unknown to European
of which were originally compiled op Dr. Boat" shall, with the ntimber, be legibly perial City and neighbour Plan of the Im P., on the 18th October will be re of the receiving. Bank, and be Victoria lies below the level of Rebinson improvemente in Williams' Commercial Mainsail; and a flag, of which the upper its divisions, streets, and places.
turned until after the mail is closed. the name Postage
Stampa should be placed on the
presented
by some Person known to be in Road; and includes all the town between ipper right hand corner of the corres the employ of such Bank, pondence, except in cater where they &The signature of the Payes of a Mothe Mint and the Western Slaughter House, may be used in payment of "Late Fees gey Order te he affixed to the Order in the with the Race-coarse,
place provided for the purpose: -If the
When the Stalap of Stamps represent
Licensed Bearers (each),"
Half day,
8 centa 20
centa.
1. of a Witness, who must sign his name, with
36 venir.
lug Late Feen or Registration Payee be unable to write ha mitust sign the Hour, Fres" should be placed on the lower left receipt by making his mark in the presence hand corner.
reference.