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09 NOVEMBER 1860,
Insurancest
NOTICE
L INSURANCE COMPANY Alan canape to with butt anual Retes for Fish Pekyises Tinns classes of Buildings here! will remisiasi followi KOOVIE <PLETU Is fugle to cop
and semi-detacha
ig Houses (removed for lubit nod the Town) and thEIZENZIE PAR: MAIN, rolling Houses (rimizin od plynd stastedy and helper det. dGodowns and their bush
aks by special arrangement,
lowing rates, will be loharged for
hod Polisiest was pu
ding: 10 days per cent eding One fair
ne Month path areál, 603 fedt
exoeeding,per contats 12555
Lonths
ee Monthse
exceeding
auch-foun dile
Me te da past-
7 per cent, and f
The full Annual Rate
Monthi, offt per set, ROB. 5. WALKER & COOLI gents Royal Lavarande Campóny, g. September 13, 19605
BLE INSURANCE OFFICE, HA dersigned having been appet
for the above? TheSTELENOR are prepared to dobipted" tried io Policies on any fenendang
bis
sin case of low An Ohm, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY OF LONDON?
ROBS WALKER & O Ky June 21 1864do ? biðu mund INSURANCE COMPANY OF JAN FRANCISCO doing
ور
rugned, Agents for the above are prepared to grab Poul on BUILDINGS
14
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BEA LAZER ANNIS HEALT
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|COMPANY. --~joileáimų
His Pin s 10 rigned having been appointed in Hongkong, foratorsboss ANY are prepared to grimit Fes SEA BJBKS touwen vin baki ted RUSSELLze Capri, April 1, 1866, lundi Fry, use INSURANCE ASSUOTI? NOF SHANGHERIA DE
granted on Marines
to the usual brokerage, this returns to the assured.
zia yearly" projk, divideo pre et premium contributed.
*** RUSSELL & CH." aaral,bum
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RANG SEA ANDIESINÍ RANGE COMPANY OF! SAMARANGAREDDEZ QUE Bejkompensos que kne
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RATNAL SCH int 4. 1866.
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gned having been appointed Hongkong for the shore Yare prepared, forant Bow Risks, on Yang ngale
бузнать SIEMSSEN & Co...
ugust 1, 1868
Docks,
DOOK COMPANY OF WHAMPOA, LIMITED
call the attention at Ship Consignees, And Mastori ní Establishment at Hong- pony for the::DOCKING Fof Vessels of all,bisanin.- the Company haren the he harbour Graite
of dimsamajore ko anddof 360 feet in length and watenuz lo linginn u he Company have arnoted ry, and ato. prepared to repair Marine and station- Steam Machinery of bill and repair Boiler pfall y for sugar crushingṇadd (graving, and every de- yor Mill work G TRU Fatty has been completed, Vossela drawing iă fest kany states of the side; Stty are Shears
have also opened
of the Hongkong Docs ontract for the
Bailing Yousela
KZIZILF ORES tow Vemel to'l
sonable rates,
Byply to say
ROB'S, WALKERS
Queen's Road, Comor
1889
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No
1909 NOVEMŐER 3, 1869)
NOTICE.
COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA- RITIMES DES MESSAGERIES
IMPERIALES PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANCAIS.
SAIGON, SINGAPOREPÉBATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ,
ALEXANDRIA MESSINA, Al MARSEILLES fond
BOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS AND CALCUTTA,
HE Company's Steam-ship TIGRE
Commandant: BordEVE, will leave this
THE
Post-Office Notifications.
tion that henceforward the Postage is hereby notified for general informas- chargeable on Book and Packets of Patterns addressed to the United States of America transmitted via the United Kingdom will be as follows, viz:~-~
14 SOUTHAMPION. Under & punice, Above 4 ounce and not seeding 8 ounce, ́ ́ ̄` Above & prince and not e
Deeding, 12 ounce,
ounce and not ex- eding 16 ounces, For every additional 4 oz.,
Via MARSEILLES
Under 4 ounce,
Above ounce and not ex-
Port for the above pisces with MAILS,eding 8 ounce, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO
Noon
TUESDAY, the 7th November de
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lendon as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in tramit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.
Cargo
will be received out board until 4 .. of the 8th; Specie and Parcels until 5 y.. of the 18th (Paresis are not to be wut on board's they must be left at the Agency's Office.)
For Particulars fogarding Freight and Passage, apply lab the Company's office, Hongkong CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED!
C. BERTRAND, Principal Agent Hongkong, October 23; 1869.
noe
PACIFIC MAIL STEAM.SHIP COMPANY.
THROUGH G. 8. MAIT LINE TO NEW YORK, Via Panama or Overland-Route:
$12 cents
92 botting 2 ounce Above Bounce and not ex."
Above 12 ounce and not ex-
For very additional 4 pz., eding 16 ounce,* Prepayment of the Postage is compulso
16 bach case,
......
RECAP W. MITCHELL Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, June 18, 1968) artamen
THE CHINA MAIL
Post-Office Notifications.
Prints, and any quantity of paper, vellum
waitton or plain, or any mixture of the in advance. Maps, Paper, &c., may be either printed, sive of postage) Tis, 12 por annum; payable or parchment (to the exclusion of letters whether sealed or opan); andle Books Published weekly. Subscription (Exslu-
Intimations.
three.
Or
there
the
AND
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, Law REPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA AND JAPAN.
desire to receive payment in the Country
9. Should the Payou of a Money Order which the Order was insned, at some other Office than that in which the Order was ori ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, All legitimate binding, provided the Order be inclosed to the covering of the same or of a poru Postmaster of the Office in which it was of, will be slowed, whether such binding drate slagi saran Order will be be loose or attached as also rollers issued, the Commission chargeable upon or otherwise) in the case of Books, and in
bade of prints,
in markers (whether of paper which will be deducted from the amount of short whatever is necessary for the safe the new Order.
10.- the event of Money Order transmission of literary or artistic matter or miscarrying or being shea helingstal Book Het must be either with
appertains thereto, be granted on a written application from out a cover, or in a cover open at the ends. 101 Had the Pye,oontaining the necessary for sides. particular, and accompanied by an addi---It must not contam sny letter, open or tional Commission) to the Office where the sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever; Original Order was payable.
the name and address of the sender is how over not only permitted but recommended, so that if the cover come off, or for any other reason the packet cannot be forward-tion ed, it may be returned,
IL-Un the receipt of 'kimilar applies tion, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed Order. The additional Commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount. No packet must exceed two feet in length, of the naw Order. Ladders must be breadth or depth; exceeding those dimen presented with the application for a new sich it cannot be forwarded through the Order,
Port 80
12-But when it is depral that any BRGARDS PATTERNÉ, error in the name of the emitter or Pay They must not be of intrinsic value. aliould be corrected or that the amount of
be renewed for payment in the Couture, and indeed whatever may have
3
bB
HE Gazette isa General Weekly Newsp courts, Police Chies, and Proceedings in per, containing Officially Revised Reports Bankrantoy: Original Articles Notes and of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular
Meetings News of the Week, Commercial Summary, do, bu Queries on Legal pointa; Reports of Public
par 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 cts. per 30 lines, for each subsequent inser Advertisements will be charged Tis, 1
Shanghai, January, 1867.
NEW BOOK,
THE Speculations of
The Old Philosopher'
LAU-Tazy," Translated from the Chinese
BY
JOHN CHALMEES, A.M. Price $1.50.
ALED,
The Origin of the Chinese" by the same
Apply at Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. or The London Mission House.... Hongkong, October 17, 1868. person for
a Money Order should be repaid to the This rule excludes all articles of a saleable Remitter, or that a Taped Order formation that, the Contract between the
1. It is hereby notified for general in which the Order, was originally drawn pattem, and the guantity of any a valdo of its own, spart from its mere nee Government of Mauritius and the Union application must be made to the Chief material sont ostensibly as a pattern must Steam-ship Company for the Conveyance Money Order Office of such Country. This dot be so great that it can fairly be conanthor: Price $1. of Mails once a Month between Ceylon and applicio oust be accompanied by i Mauritius, and between Mauritius and ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case these address of the
aidered aa having on this ground an intrin Natal, having terminated, the correspon Commision will be deducted from the whom the packet is intended and that of
Colomission, unless it have read val
There must be no writing or marks other dence for Mauritius will be forwarded from this Office in the Mail for Aden, from amount of the New Order. whence it will be sent to its destination by 13.-Repayment whether of an orignal, prices of the artibles; otherwise the Packet the French Mail Packets leaving Aden for or renewell, or a duplicate, Order, will not will be detained or forwarded obarged us the sender, 4 trade mark and numbers, and Reunion and Mauritius on the 23rd of each be made to the remitter until it has been an unpaid letter... Month.
ascertained that the advice has been can- Nov 192. No alteration has been made in thecelled at the Office on which the Order was
rates of Postage ton correspondence ad-originally drawn.
must be sent in covery dressed to Mauritius.
Open at the
so as to be
of exami nation. Samples, however, of seeds, druge Month after that in which it was drawn other materiai, tied at the neck, baga so 34 14-Payment of an Order must be ob- and so forth, which cannot be sent in open tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar covers, vaay be enclosed in bags of linen or 11 asts complete from 11. must be obtained before the end of July, even although they be transparent, muat for instance, if drawn in January, payment clised that they cannot readily be opened, otherwise the Order will become lapsed, not be
15. auid, a new Oriler (for which a goooud Compliance with, this rule, peos.com 8, 7, 11, 12, 13, 10, 77, and from 10 to 23,
16.
usoessary. mission, to be deducted from the amount packet to be detained or forwarded as an will subject the of the Order, will be charged) will become, unpaid latter.
Amulet
TEAMERS of this line will be despatah
ed as followe
China, americas
Dec. ia.
A Steamer will leave Shangbai on or about same date, connecting at Yokohama with above-named steamer.
Psesengers ticketed through to California, Mexicu, Central and South Americ, and by Overland Rota to principal poin's in the United States and Canadas, and con- with the various Steam lines for nogork, to Liverpol, Southampton,
Now
Bremen, Brest, and Havre,
to
Through Tickets issued also to New Tork did Europe vis Panama Route and Entopa per sceaters of the Royal Mail Steam P.ckot And Pacific Steam the West India Company Limited, and The Compagnie. Générale Transatlan tique from Aspinwall direct. Connections made at Patlama with Steard linen upon the West Coast of Central and South America, by which
passengers are ticketed through.
Through Bill of Lading given for Freight vie Usuty 1. Pacino Rafiroad and its con nections to the principal points in the United States and Canadas and for Freight Overland for Eagland and the Continent
Through Bills of Lading given also for New York and Europe via Panama route, and to Barope via Aspinwall Lines to ports of Mexico and parts on the West Coast of Central America, and South America to us far as Valparaiso.
Favorable arrangements have been made for through passengers and freight to Ame risa, tromi Caloutte, Penang and Singapore,
the Cape of Good Hope is thus cat of the 3. As the communication with Natal and
marked to be forwarded by Prisate Ship, correspondence for those Colonies, unless will, in future, be sent in the Mails for London at the following ratos of Postage, which must be paid in advance, riz:—
way, Upon Letters sent by was 46 cents esch oz. When sent by way of
Marsailles,
Newspaper via Southam-
ptob...... Newspapers via Diarmail.
·les,....... Book Packets via South-
ampton,
54
The
Packets or the contents thereof.
thereof must not contain any incloure, sealed or other wise closed against inspection
AT THE “CHINA MAIL" OFFICE FOR SALE.
BE following SETS of the "CHINA TBE
PUNCH can be obtained, stitched iz paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cente per copy vir
No.
Price:
22
25
$3.50. $2.50,
$2.25. Also a few separate copies of Nos. 1, 2
C. A. SAINT.
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT,
Trustees.
Bou, W, KIBWIOK,
JoAN. DEST
"
FORBES, KEQ... H. G. THOMBETT,
Directors
15.-If an Order be ut paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn, for instance, tions of the Book Past between Hongkong. In all other reipsote the general regula if drawn in January and not paid before and the United Kingdom will apply to the the end of the following January-all claim to the money will be forfeited, unless, Pattern Fort, Under these regulations, in under peculiar circumstances, the Post order to prevent any interruption, to the Office of the Country in which the Order Patterns may; when it is necessary, be kept G.J. HELAND, Esq,
regular transmission of letters, a Pecket of Hon. H. B. GIBS, under 4 was drawn think proper to allow it back for the follow ng Mail by which, in G. HEARD, ENG.
6
11
10
Book Packets via Marseilles, 14 conts under 4 oar 28 cents above for and not exceeding 3.0; and 28 cents for every additional 8 ounces,
F W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1868.
a
02., 20'dents, above 4 oz. and not ex-16.After once paying a Money Ordor ceeding 8 oz.; and 20 cents for every by whomsoever presented, the paying Office additional 8 oz.
will not be liable to any further claim. If wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Past Office, the Postmaster Genaral of the Country dr Colony in which the negli Officer in fault to take good the loss. gence occurs will, if he see fit, require the 17.-No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously roceived.
18.-Additional Rules for greater accu- It is hereby notified that, under the an-rity against fraud, and for the better work thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the lating of the system generally will be May last, Superintending, or First-Class 38 occasion may require
D. SASSOON, EAQ W. MACAULAY, Esq.
Rev. W. R. BEACH, J. J. MURNAR, M, D. Committee of Management. Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairman,
the ordinary course, it would be forwarded: W. LEARN, ENG. as to the ebgibility of any Packet, pattern The decision of the Postmaster General or sample contained therein, to be for- warded under these regulations, will be W. final and conclusive
MACAULAY, Esq. | H. G. TRONSETT,
Eaq., EN,
NATIONS of Books, Periodicale, News- bankfully received.
papers, Clothes, de, will be most
A. OVERBURY,
Superintendent. Hongkong, October 29, 1868.
The rule which forbids the transmission, HELLAND, Eng. through the Poet of say article likely to injure the contente of the Mail Baga ur Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Pattern Post; and a packet containing any“ thing of the kind will be stopped, sud not sent to its destination Artfelen such as All Freight papable in Evaker to World an Dollars, or on delivery in American be entitled to the same privileges in regard are used by mercantile men, or others, Iain and China, fruit, vegetabuchod awing have been occasionally posted Gold Coin with per seat aditional, at to Leurs sent by or addressed to them on either in the United Kingdont or at Hung of flowers, duthings of plants, spurs, raives, been detained aa Dippor's option.
their own private affairs as are at present onjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the ong, Shanghai or Kokabine, for the scissors, needles, piss, pieces of newhinery, Army and all Army Schoolmistresses will British or Colonial Post Ofice, as the case inolali, samples of ore, samples in glass
transmission of large suuna of money, the sharp pointed instruments, samples be entitled (as Army Bohoolmasters of but the First-Class now are) to the same may be will consider the propriety of in- bottles, pieces of glass, acids of varions privileges, in regard to their Letters, dressing the Commission, and will exercise kinds, curry comha, copper and steel eu enjoyed by non-commissioned Officéta
the power of wholly suspending for a time graving plates, and confectionery of all Private Soldiers,
And the issue of Money Orders.it!
1 tatura Passage Tickets issued at a re dugo of upon, the whole amount for the Round Vayage.
For further information as to Passage and freight, apply ty the Agner of the Company, Prays West.
•
T. A HARRIS,
Agenti Hongkong, October 7, 1860.
Fla.
Post-Omce Notifications.
For LETTERS:
FW. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office,
Hongkong, July 31,-1868. -----
Clayder mess
By Command,
FW MITCHELL Postmaster General. General Poet Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
REGISTRATION OF LETTERS AND BOOK PACKET STEIRAS ZATEASED TO THE COAST FORTS
AND JAYAN
Kinda
F. W. MITCHELL, Portmaster General,
Genral Post Office, Hongkong, Uctober 13, 1809.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & WINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
Intimations.
THE
CHINESE COMMERCIAL
GUIDE
BY S. WELLS WILLIAMS, LL
Published at the Oura Mail
Hongkong.
638 FP. DEMY 879, WITH AFFENDIX.
FIFTH EDITION, 1863. Price $2
Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollars,
The following is an Abstract of the Con tants of thia Book:
CHAP. I.--SEC, 1 to 4. Four Treaties with China. 1.-Treaty with Great Britain,
Chinese Text of the same. 2.Treaty with the United States, 3.--Treaty with France, 4-Treaty with Russia.
Supplementary Treaty with Russia.
CHAP. I.—930. 1 To 5. Articles of Trade with China, 1-Tariff on Articles of Import 2 Tariff on Articles of Export A 3.--Rules respecting Trade and Dues,
Chinese Text of the same." 4.Description of Articles of Import." 5.-Description of Articles of Export,
OBAL. II-BEC, 1 To 14-! Foreign Commerce, with Ching. 1-Part of Canton.
Port of. Chanchan or Swatow. : S.-Port of Kiungebau in Hainan. 4-Port of Amoy....
Dr-Port of Foochow
&Ports of Tamshui and Taiwas in For
17. Part of
1. 8. Romhai
Forts on the
the Interior.
Yangtar and Trade in
10-Port of Taugehan or Chefoo.
11-Port of Tientsinks
can
12 Port of Newchwang or Yangter'. 18 Colony of Hongkong
14-Colony of Macao,
OHAP. IV. 850, 1 TO B
- Foreign Commerce, with Japan.
1.-Intercourse with Japan
2-Treaty between Great Britain, and
...Japan
S-Porta open to Foreign Commerce,
Nagasaki
i
Kanagawa and Hakodadi 4-Japanese Coins, Weights and Mes. sureate Maria'irmiş -American Compact with Lowchewg.
CHAT: REC. 1 TO 7.
Moneys, Weights, do, in China.
Chinese Currency.
-Chiacse Numerals::
3.-Chinese Conimercial Weights
-Measures of Capacity. Meamures of Length, 6-Chinese Land Measures. Chinese Division of
Times.
CHAP. VI.BEC, 1To∙11. Western Moneys, Weights, do -Anpanese Moneys, &c. -Port of Saigon. -Treaty with Sinn, Tariff, &e, Siamese Moneys, Weights, &c. 4-Netherlands India.
HIS Medicine is universally admitted known to the world. No preparation is so suitable to the climates of India and China to be the most efficacións remedy
as this line and invigorating medicine. It of European latice, as it is never failing in is particularly adapted to the constitution its effects in all diseases peculiar to females, while those who are attenuated by the de- bilitating effects of the above climates will find in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta-Bormene liaman whereby they may insure a restora tion to robust
Health,
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT,
It is hereby notified for general informa-
1.-On the 1st October next, and thence, tion that under the Provisions of a Tres forward Money Orders will be issued at Warmuth, which villtust, the A caseins thefoof at
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE. tion on the 1st October next, correspon- Shanghai and Yokohama on all the dence addressed to Constantinople will be Order Offices in the United Kingdom of
The following Regulations for Street produced any remedy that can be compared The science of Medicine has never before forwardel at the following reduced Rates Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not tion, by order of His Excellency Sir April 1860,
Chairs and Chair Coolies, bear date Colo-to this wonderful Ointment, as it cures, It is hereby notified for general informa-pial Scerstary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd after all other means have failed, all of Postage, which must be paid in advance, Current for Each Mail, and charged with system of registration has been, from this Ordinary and Special....
exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Richard Graves MacDonnell, that, the
wounds, sores, ulears, and also the most Commission according to the following date, extended to letters and other descrip- A Street Chairs may carry persons who tain old sores can be removed by it that There are two Clauses of Street Chairs, inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the oli- Scale, viz.
mates of
India and China. It is the true Cenis tions of correspondence transmitted by the have engaged them up to any hour, but cannot be conquered by any other treat For me not exceeding £2,13]
friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as car Post, in the Mails by both the British Ordinary Chaise may not ply for hire after ment, Above £2 and not exceeding : 5,...24 Contract Packets
between this
Office and son Agency thereafter midnight.
Private
Ships, first gunfire (8-..), nor Special Chairs £10.48 of in Chins and;
Canton, Swatow, Amy,
Ningpo, Shang- hat, Nagaan Hiogo, and Yokobama, and between any two of those Agencies. letter, &o.
The fee for registration is 8 cents each
20 cents each half-an-cunco weight. For NEWSPAPERS, PACKETS OF PATTERNS,
AND BOOKSong, Lodats each two ounces up to half-pound, and 8 cents for every additional half-pound
14
F. W. MITOHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 23rd September, 1800.
£7
i
tional part of a Penny
2 No Money Otter to include a fract
SOrders drawn in the United King dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Kokp
It is hereby notified for general informa-hama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange tion that henceforward closed muile for the as which Money Orders are boing isaned at United Kindom will be made up at this the time of their presentation. Office and forwarded to London by the Un-
W
No Letter, Book, or Packet of Patterns can be registered unless the full postage pon it, as well as the registration fee, be paid in advance in postage Stamps. received up to half an hour before the time Letters, & for registration will be fixed for closing the Mails.
F. W. MITCHEL
furish, in full, the surname, and, at least
General Post Office, 5.Applicants for Money Orders must Hongkong, 18th October, 1800.
4.Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco. aloney Order Offices in the United King Correspondence intended to be forwarded. dom, showing the Counties in which the this route must be addressed via San are situated, are hung up for public refer Brancisco,
ence at this Office, and also at Shangha Lettere, Newspapers, Booksand Patterns, and Yokohama, will be liable to the same rates of
those sent by the British Mail Packets portage
ris Boushampton viz
For Letters, 24 conta per half-ounce
For each Newspaper not exceeding 4 ounces, 4 cents.
per pumps P
will be sent via Snez.
the initial of one Christian name, both of
As Special Chairs are secured for a higher sur ($50), than. Ordinary Chairs ($20), it is for the interest of the Public to engage only the former after gunfire.
its two Coolios & Badge each, bearing the Each Street Chair carries a Number, and same Number as the Chair
Hongkong, February 1, 1867.
NOW READY,
(AT THE "CHINA MAN," UPPICE.) PRICE $1.00.
THE
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR MANUAL
.tf
5- Philippine Islands
Direction for Panay L States-Singapore, &
8-Indian Prostdancies ---Bengal.
dras Bombay. 9-Ceylon.
10-English and French Weights, &c. 11.-United States of America
CHAP. VILEC. 1 TO 6. Tables on Prices, rohanges, 1:Comparison of Tricos... 2.Relating to Exchanges. 3.Relating to Time. 4.Comparison of Weights. Measurement of Cargo. 6.Bullion Operations.......
AFFENDIA.Containing Sailing Direc tions for the Coast of China, and for the Japan Islauda also giving the meanings of Chinese Words occurring in-Charte and Sailing Directions and also a Table of Po- sitions of places on the Chinese and Japa
деве Сова.
The Numbers and Coalies Badges of Special Chairs are, White, (1 to 200).
The Numbers and Coolles Badges of Ordinary Chairs are Blue, (201 to 700).
When ground of Complaint Arises against A Handbook of reference for the deter dollars or pence have Postmaster General.
apy Street Chair Coolley the person ag- period from 1860 to 1860; with comparative mination of Chinese Dates, during the griovel may either hand the offender over Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, to the Felice, or send a memorasidam of &o, & Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE the complaint and the Chair's Number to RICE MAYERS, H.M.C.S. the Registrar General d
ter or Payée be a Fear of a Bishop, his ortion, by order of His Excelency Sir Bighard the Remitter and the Payon; if the itemit It is hereby notified for general informs
usual designation of such firm,
the Graves MacDonnell, that henceforward
When Stret Chair-Coolies are suspected
of having retained missing property, the
the Post by the Mails made ions of tim
Author's Preface
bad
The pathor in his Preface says-The Bubles in Chap. VIL, for estimating prices, measurement of goods; exchanges, &c. bave been selected from those constantly in use among
the foreign merchants in Chios Those for calculating the prices of tea in sion of the author, P. Loureiro, Esq. more extended tables, by thee from the
boun
last section of the same chapter on More the kind permis mente in Bullion," ban been propered and The furnished for the Guide by Patrick B For a packet of Books or Patterns, 8 cents wary title.will be sufficient,ches Book Packets, and Packets of Patterns or Number of their Chair should be sont to
Harper, Esq, of the Commercial Bank of Baring Brothers will auffice; but the Samples of Marchandize, pay be trane the Registrar General at once without any subjects are wont to confess the need of a been reprinted from the China Pilot, ' The Postage must in all cases be paid in there term Mosers, chess-Rimitted throng both by the British
India at Hongkong, who has Most persons whose avocations or studies of the precious metais Eastern Asia
perience in the advance; correspondence net fully prepaid vington of the haine of a Company: trad ptract Packets and by lrivate Ships its amber Board Tariff of Fares con- either the European or the Chinese method it; sud (de the Chinese coasts, the Direc
mach exchanges and movements are counected even remotely with Chinese The Appendix of Sailing Directions has ing under a title which does not consist of Contract
Each Street-Chair carries on the back of pose of determining dates according to Singapore to Hakodadi are all described in convenient manual of reference for the par- With short interruptions, the coaste from the names of the persons composing it, such bitween this Ofice and each-Agency thereof dansed from the following 36 "Carron Co." is inadmissible.
China and Japan, viz.: Canton, Swatow The Reinitter of stating that the "Or
Amoy, Fonchow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nag LatteSED TARIFY OF FARES FOR Crane, son for the names attributed to year of the Chinese characters for the naines of of computation; and a system of comparitions have been improved by the insertion der is to be paid only through a Bank, t between any two of these Agencies, at the
waki Hogo and nohama and slør URAIE BEARBEN, AND BOLTS," have the option of giving or withdrawing the ae of the Faves in such us, the following rates of postage, which must be
months,
and other periode is also frequent all places that could be scertained." Order all be used in file same way that padd in advance vik
IN THE COLONY OF HORUKORG,
a desideratum with translators and readers of Chinese literature. The com Cheques are commonly crossed when they Nat exceeding 40%........... 6 cent. Half hour,....19 ote. Three hours, 50 eta. Accordingly, that their publication in China Mail Agents, or direct so are intended to be paid through a Bank. Kbove 14 or, and not sreeding
Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Boats. piler of the following tables has thought, Orders may be sent through any of the Hour 20 cla, Six hours, 76 ots.venient form may prove useful, although 7-When an Order is presented througho
Day (from 6 to 8) in
Chie Dollar, much yet remains to be done for the elabor
CHARLES A. SAINT, Night Fares (after 8 PM.) 10 st extra should leave nothing to
ration of comparative calendars, etc. that
(Late A. Shortride & Co.). Chair Hire to Out Districts.
be desired. With the exception of the Cyclical Table
China Mail Offoe, Jan. 6, 1868. of which were originally compiled by Dr Years, and the Table of Solar Terma, both of
Morrison, and afterwards republished with mprovemonta in Williams Commercial they are now copied, the whole of the mat Guide,
from which (with some alteration) ter assembled in the following pages the first time made accessible to genera} reference, re
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office Hongkong February 1, 1869.
hereby notified that, under the proe visions of a Treasury Warrant dated the 7th May, the Postage on 3 Letter not treeding half-an-onace in weight posted Hongkong or at any of the Ports in China and Japan addressed to Egypt, or peted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong
from
Bank, a receipt by air peaon will be mut. Above 8 oz., and not exceeding ay of the Ports in China and Japan, and ficient, provided the Order be crossed with
gor
1b, com Twenty-four Cents to Twelve presented by some Person known to be in Above 1 lb., and not exceeding
the employ of such Baliki
12
12
24
11.
30.
quveyed in the Mails by British Packet, is the name of the receiving Bank and be reduced
For Latters exceeding half-su-outica in The signature of the Payee of a Mo. Weight & further rate of Twelve Cents forney Order, to be affited to the Order in the
half quase is chargeable. Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory. Payes be unable to write he fast algh the pisce provided for the purpose. If the receipt by making his mark in the price Witness, who must alga his hame, with his address in the prematios of the Ulcer who the Order
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General,
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General Post Office,
Hongkong, July 15, 1889,
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