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21, 1868
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FIRE INSURANGI Buildings and the follows, until f
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their per cent their
per cent Trangements will be charge fo
per cent.
per cent.
per cent,
per cent,-
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of 1 per cent
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13, 1869, 57
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to accept Marine
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MBAY, OF LONDON ALKER &
COMPANY OP ISCO.
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1807,
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Marine Fisks to ab-current rates
brokerage, title Bssured Fifteen fits divided pre ontributed SSELL & Co.:: ecretaries,
COMPANY DISCO.
been appointed
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at the current
SSELL & Co.
AND MPANY OF
been appointed
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No. 2040-DECEMBER 21, 1869.]
STEAM FOLL
Post-Office Notifications. MALLS BY THE “EMEU”— The Contract Packet*EMEU" will be dispatched with the dsual Maila for Europe, &c., on TUESDAY, the 28th Instant, at 9 AM., and the Post Uffice will be open for the reception of Ordinary Letters, Letters for Registra Singapore, Penang, Point de Galletion, Newspapers, Books, &c., until
Aden, Suez, Malta, Marssilles, PM on the 27th Instant. Letters, &c, may be posted in the night box from 8 PM, on the 27th Instant until 7., on the tollowing morning All Letters posted between 7 and 8 A.M. on the 28th Instant will be charge. able, in addition to the usual postage, with a Lata Fee of 18 cente. he latest time for posting Letters at this Office is 8 A.M. and for Newspapers, Buoke, or Patterus 7 A., on the 28th Islant
and Southampton;
ALSO,
Bombay, Madras, Calcutta.
INHE PENINSULAR AND ÜBIENTAL STEAM |
NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam-ship EMEU," Captain J. O. BAROT, with Her Majesty's tails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargu, will leave this for the above
places, on TUESDAY, the 28th Instant,
at 9 AM.
PARCELS and CARGO will be received on board until Noon, and SPECIE until 4PM, on the 27th Instant.
For particulars regarding Freight and Pamage, apply at the P. &0. 8, N. Co.'s Ofice, Hongkong.
CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES
ARE REQUIRED.':'
A written declaration of the Contents and
و المهنية
THE GRINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
be loose or attached; as also rollers in the case of prints, markers (whether of paper 9-Should the Payee of a Money Order or otherwise,) in the case of Books; and in desire to receive payment in the Country in short whatever is necessary for the safe which the Order was issued at some other transmission of literary or artistic matter or
ice than that in which the Order was ori-sually appertains thereto. ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, Every Back packet must be either with provided the Order be melosed to the out a cover, or in a cover open at the ends Postmaster of the Offs in which it was or sides. 3 drawn. In such case
It must not contain any letter, open or now Order will be issued, the Commission chargeable upon sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever; which will be deducted from the amount of the game and address of the sender is how- the new Urder.
ever not only permitted but recomended, miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will other reason the packet cannot be forward- 10.-In the event of a Money Order 20 that if the cover come off, or for any be granted on a written, application fromed, it may be returned. as Payee; (containing the necessary breadth or depth; exceeding these dimen- No packet muet exceed two feet in length, tional Commission) to the Office where the sions it cannot be forwarded througli the particulars, and secampanied by an addi- Uriginal Order was payable.
11-Un the receipt of a similar applica
AS REGARDS PATTERNS, tion,
orders will be given to stop payment a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed This rule excludes all articles of a saleable They most not be of intrinsic value. Order. The additional Commission in the nature, and ideed whatever may have last case will be deducted from the amount value of its own, apart from its mere use
Further, late letters (but Letters only) ad- dressed to the United Kingdom vid Marseilles or to Singapore, may be posted on board the Packet from 8.30 to 8.80A.M. on payment of a late fee postage, after which no Letters can be received. Seated Boxes containing the correspondence of Box Beiders will be received at the window set apart for the purpose, on the East Side of the building.
All
of
Post
of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be as a pattern; and the quantity of any presented with the application for a newatorial rent ostensibly as a pattern must
uot be ao
ao great that it can fairly be con- 12-But when
sidered as
Pubusted weekly.Subscription (Exclu- Intimations.
sive of postage) Tis, k per annuma; payable
in advance.
AND
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, *LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPKERE AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA ANE JAPAN,
THE Gazette isa General Weekly Newspa of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular per, containing Umerally Revised heperts
Queries on Legal points; Heports of Public Bankruptcy; Original Articles; Notes and Courte, Polien Csses, and Proceedings in
Meetings; News of the Week, Compiercial Summary, de, dc.
Advertisements will be charged Tis. I ets. per 70 Lines, for each subacquent inser per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50
Shanghai, January, 1867.
NEW BOOK,
*
of 48 cents each, in addition to the Order. in desired that any fic value ring on this ground an intrin-THE Speculations of
error in the name of the Remitter or Payee should be corrected or that the amount of
the
than the address of the person for There must be no writing or marks other whom the packet is intended and that of will bo detained or forwarded charged as the sender, a trade mark and numbers, and prices of tus articlça; otherwise the Packet
Money Order should be repaid to Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should Value of the Packages for the Overland Houte correspondence for places to which pre-which the Order was originally drawn bo renewed for payment in the Country in required by the Egyptian Government, and payment is compulsory inust be prepaid application must be made to the Chief unpaid letter must be delivered by the Shippers, to the Com-insufficiently-stamped Letters addressed to application must be accompanied by an in Hongkong Postage Stampa, Money Order Office of such Country This pany's Agents with the Bill of Lading, or seith Parcels; and the Company do not hole
the United Kingdom will be sent on, additional Commission, ntless it have re-open at the themselves responsible for any detention
charged with a fine of One Shilling in ference to a Lapsed Order, in which oase the addition to the postage
Commission will be deducted from the Instant will not be forwarded unless
3-Repayment whether of. the Late Fee as well as the postage is or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not ati original, prepaid
be made to the remitter until it has been Letters insufficiently stamped or unstamped ascertained that the advice has been
addressed to places tu which they cancelled at the Office on which the Order was not be forwarded-unpaid, will be open- originally drawn. ed and returned to the writers as early 14.Payment of an Order must be ob!
09
· prejudice which may happen from incorrect Letters posted after M, on the 28th amount of the New Order covers, may be enclosed in bags of linen or
new on such declaration.
hippers are particularly requested to note
the terms and conditions of the Company's Black Hills of Lading,
W. MACAULAY, Superintendent..
P. & 0.8. N. Co.'s Office,
Hongkong, Deo. 20, 1869,
NOTICE
de 28-
COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA- BITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.
PAQUEBOTS
POSTE FRANÇAIS. STEAM FOR
SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ,
ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES,
... ALBO
TOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS,
AND CALCUTTA, ATZ
IN TUESDAY, the 4th January, at Noon, the Corapany's S. 8: DON- NAI," Commandant BOURDON, (H.1.M,N.}, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO, will leave this Port for the above places.
Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe
The Patterns must be sent in covers
enda, so as to be easy of exam nation. Semples, however, of seeds, drugs, and so forth, which cannot be sent in Oper other material, tied at the neck; bage so closed that they cunnot readily he opened, even although they be transparent, must not be used for this purpose. Non-cota: pliance with this rule will also subject the packet to he detained or forwarded as an unpaid letter.
The Old Philosopher'
LAU-TSZE." Translated from the Chinese
BY!!
JOHN CHALMERS, A‡M, Price $1.50, A180,
anthor: Price $1.
The Origin of the Chinese" by the rame
or The London Mission House
Apply at MiessTE LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.. Hongkong, Catober 17, 1888,
FOR SALE.
AT THE CHINA MAIL" OFFICE
EE following SETS of the "CHINA. TUNE can be obtained, stilchest in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cents
as possible, but no guarantee can be tained before the end of the Sixth Calendarnot contain any inclosure, scaled or other. For copy viz
given that such Letters, if posted after BP.M. on the 27th Irutant will be re turned until after the mail is closed.
Month after that in Which it was drawn for instance, if doen in January, pay-nent must be obtained before the end of July, Postage Stamps should be placed on the otherwise the Order will become lapsed, upper right hand corner of the corres- and a new Order (for which a second Com pondence, except in cases where they mission, to be deducted from the amount may be used in payment of Late Fees, the Order, will be charged) will become when the Stamp or Stamps represent-necessary. ing Late Fees" or Registration 16-If an Order be not paid before the Fees should be placed on the lower left ond of the Twelfth Calendar fonth after hand corner.
that in which it was drain--for instance, it drawn in Jannery and not paid before
All transactions in fractional parts of a Dol- fer will be conducted in the Coina pre- scribed by Ordinance 1, of 1864, and the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, and no other Coins, but those therein specified will either be reunived or given in change as fractional parts Payment for Postage Stamps must be made in the current Dollars of the Colony Bank Neten,
of a Dollar.
The Packets or the contents thereof must wise closed against inspection.
No.
Price
11 aéto complete from 11.
$9.50:
เร
10. 16.
$2.50. $2.26.
0. A. SAINT.
In all other respects the general regula- 4 tione of the Book Post between Hongkong Pattern Post Undes these regulations, in 3, 7, 11, 12, 18, 16, 17, and from 19 to 24. and the United Kingdom will apply to the
4
Also a few separate copies of Nos.1, 2, order to prevent any interruption to the regular transmission of letters, a Packet of Patterns may, when it is necessary, be kept the ordinary course, it would be forwarded. back for the follow ng Mail by which, in The decision of the Postmaster General
SAILORS DOME, WEST POINT,
Trustees.
A. G. THOMSUIT,
ESQ., B. N.
as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern Hou, W. Kesw10, FORBES, Esq. the end of the following January-all claim or sample contained therein, to be for to the honey will be forfeited, unless, warded under thans regulations, will be under peculiar circumstances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order
fins and conclusive. was drawn think proper to allow it.
The rule which forbids
the transmission
31
JOHN DENT,
Directors
Rev. W. K, BEACH,
16.After.once paying a. Money Order/through the Post of any article likely to Hon. H. B. GiB, W. Macaulay, £og.. by whomsoever presented, the paying Office injure the contents of the Mail Bags G. J. BELLAND, sq. D. SasSOON, Esq.
Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Pattern Post; and s packet containing any. thing of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Artioles such as
will not be liable to any further claim. If a wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of Money Orders on any of the Money Order the Post Office, the Postinaster General
"Ofices in the United Kingdom will be the Country or Colony in which tho negli granted until 6 P.M. on the 27th In-gence ocours will, if he res fit, require the
Officer in fault to make good the lows.
17.-No Money Order wi be paid unless F. W., MITCHELL, Postmaster General."
the advice has been previously received,
atau
General Post Office, Hongkong,
December 20, 1809.
4028.
It is hereby notified for general informe Cargo will be received on board until 4 F.. of the 3d Specie and Parcels until on that puder le Provisions of a Trea F., of the 5th (Parcels are not to boxury Warrant, which will come into opera- sunt on board; they must be left at the dence addressed to Constantinople will be tion on the lat Cctober next, correspon. Agonoy's Office.)
forward at the following reduced Rates For Particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply at the Company's office, of Postage, which must be paid in advance, Hongkong
CONTENTS AND VALUE
OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.
U. BERTRAND, Principal Agent. Hongkong, December 20, 1869,
PACIFIC MATE STEAM-SHIP
COMPANY.
“ŽUROVGŇ V, ŠIMAIL LINK TO NEW-YORK. Via Panama or Overland Route.
TEAMERS of this line will be despatch
ed as follows-
1870-
Jan. 12. Feb. ·12 March 12.
America, Japast,
Japan,
been appointed
China
for the abov
12,
redito grant
on; the umle
China,
12.
America,
BEN & Con
June July 12, August 12
America,
IPANY OF
A, LIMITED.
ention of Ship
ad Masters of Fit At Bont
-DOOKING of all classes. ny have the
Granite
Are Urected
making and
every de
wing 18 feet
of the tide
are capable of
kang Dook,
ALEFL
onde Corner
Гарав, China, America,
Sept. 12
October 12,
Nov. 12, -Dec 12,
A Stamer will leave Shanghai on or shout same dates, connecting at Yokohama with above-named ataamess.
Passengers ticketed through to Califonia, Mexico, Central and South America, and by Overland Route to principa pops in the United States and Canadas, and con- necting with the various Steam lines for New York, to Liverpool, Southampton, Bremun, Brest, and Havre.
viz,
For LETTERS
20 cents each half-an-ounce weight, For NEWSPAPERS, PACKETS OF PATTERNS, AND BOOKE:
2 cents each two ounces up to half-pound, and 8 cents for every additional half-pound,
FW MITOBALL Postmaster Generul. General Post Office, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1869.
}
For sums not exceeding £2,12 Above £2 and not exceeding £6.24
25
£7.42 17
21048 2-No Money Order to include a frac- tional part of a Penny
23
3-Orders drawn in the United King.
the following have been occasionally posted
W. LEMANN, ERŋJ. J. MURRAY, M‚Ð, G. LEAND, F
Committee of Management, Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairman.
Esq., K,N.
as Patterns, and have been detained as W, MACAULAY, Esq. H. G. TROMSETT isia and Chica, fruit, vegetables, bunches unit for the Post, viz: Metal boxes, poreo, J. LELLAND, Beg.
ONATIONS of Booke, Periodicals, News- hankfully received,
papera, Clothes, &e. will be moat
A OVERBURY, Nuperintendent,
Hongkong, October 29, Tous, HOLLOWAYS PILLS & OINTMENT, HOLLOWAY'S FILI
18. Additional Rules for greater soc-soissors, needles, pina, pieces of machinery, DONAT
of flowers, cuttinge of plants, spurs, knives, rity against fraud, and for the better work sharp pointed instruments, samples of ing of the system generally will be made metale, samples of oro; samples fu glass as pecheion lay registr that Money Orders butler pieces by acidad steer of Hongkon
occasion require.
bottles, of glass, of are wed by inertile men, or there, aging place, and continty of all either in the United Kingdom or at Hong long, Shanghai or Yokobags, for the British or Colonial Post Office, as the case trubemission of large sums of money, the may be, will consider the propriety of in- ereusing the Commission, and will exercise the power of wholly suspending for a time the issue of Money Orders. By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General Post Oflice, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.-
HEBJEIRATION OF LETTERS AND BOOK PACK
SYSTEMS EXTENDED TO THE GUAST PORTS AND JAPAN,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office, Rongkong, 13th October, 1869..
It is hereby notified for general informs
e. W. MITCHELL, Postauster General, Hongkong, October 13, 1869.
Genera! Post Office,
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE, The following Regulations for Street Chairs and Clixir-Coolies, are published for general information,
No Strent-Chairs Buy ply for hire after midnight; they may, however, carry their fares as long as required.
Should articles of a higher value thau this Faol Chair is secured for a sum of $50. be lost in any Chair, there will be very Security Tittle hope of their recovery through the
HIS Medicine is universady admitted
is tend known to the world. No preparation is so suitable to the climates of India and Chira as this five and invigorating medicine. It is
particularly adapte to the constitution its effects in all diseases peculiar to females, of Buropean ladica, ke it is never failing in while those who are attenuated by the do-
man whereby they may insure a rostera- in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta- bilitating effects of the above climates will
tion to robust health.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT,
The science of Medicine has never before. produced any remedy that can be compared to this wonderial Ointment, as is onres
Hongkong, February 1, 1887.
NOW READY. (AT THE OPINA MAIL" OFFICE.) PRICE $100,
THE
ANGLO-GRINESE CALENDAR
MANUAL
tf.
Intimations.
THE
CHINESE COMMERCIAL
GUIDE.
w
by S. WELLS WILLIAMS, LL Pithalied at the CA Man* Office, Hongkong,
688 PT. DENY SVO. WITH APPENDIX. PIFTA KUITION, 1869. Price, $0.
Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollars.
The following is an Abstract of the Con tents of this Book
CHAP, T.-SEC. ITO 4 Four Treaties with China, 1.-Treaty with Great Britain,
Chinese Text of the same. 2-Treaty with the United States 3-Tresty with Franes. 4-Treaty with Russia,
Supplementary Treaty with Russia
Collar. SEC. 1 r 6. Articles of Traite with China, 1.-Tariff on Articles of Import. 2-Tariff on Articles of Export. 9.--Rules respecting Trade and Dues,
Chinese Text of the same. 4-Description of Articles of Import.
~Description of Artícler ai Experts?
CHAR. III.-SEC, 1 TO 14. Foreign Commercs with Chinai- 1-Port of Canton. 2-Port of Clauchau or Swatow, 3Port of Kiuugchau in Hainali. 4.-L'ort of Amey.
6.-Port of Fouchow.
6.-Ports of Tamshui and Taiwan in for
7.-Port of Niugpo. S.-Port of Shanghai,
9-Ports on the Yangtsz and Trade in
the uterior.
10.-Port of Tangchan or Chefoo 1.Port of Tientsin.
12-Port of Newcrwang or Yangtas",
15. Colony of Hongkong 14.-Colony of Macao.
CHAP. 17. ERC. 1 To 5.
Forsign Commerce with Japan.... 1-Intercourse with Japan.
2.-Treaty between Great Britain and
Japan,
3.Ports open to Foreign Commerce,
Nagasaki.
Kanegara and Bakodadi...
4-Japanese Coins, Weights and Mra-
gures,
5.-American Compact with Lewchewy.
:
CHAP, F.SEC. Fro7.
Moneys, Weights, d, in China, L-Chinese Currency, 2.-Chinese Numerala,
9.-Obinese Commercial Weight 4.Measures of Capacity 6Measures of Length... Chinese Land bleuenres. 7-Chinese Division of Tinies,
CHAP. VI, SEC, 130 11. Western Bloneys, Weights, do," --Anusmese Moneya, de 2-Port of Saigon.
3.-Treaty with Siaus, Tarifi, &c., Siamese Bloneys, Weights, de. 4.-Netherlands Ind.
5.- Philippine Islands,
Sailing Directions for Panay 6-Malayan States Singapore, & 7.-Burmese Moneys, Weights, du, :: 8-Indian Presidencies, Bengal, Ma
dras, Lombay,
D.-Coylon.
10.-English and French Weights, & 11.-United States of Ameriva.
CHAP, FIL-SEC. 1 TO 6.
Tables on Prices, Exchanges, de.. 1-Comparison of Prices 2-Relating to Exchanges. 8.-Relating to Time, 4-Comparison of Weights. 5.-Measurement of Cargo. 6-Bullion Operatious.
It is hereby notified for general informs tion, by order of His Excellency Sir When loss of property in any Street! 1.- the lat Dutober next, and thence Pichard Graves MacDonnell, that, the Clair is suspected, its number should be forward Binney Orders will be issued at system of registration has been, from this forwarded to the Registrar General at once thie Offee and at the Agencies thereof at date, extended to letters and other descriywithout any lose of time. Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money tiona of correspondence transmitted by the Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Post, in the Mails by both the British any Street Chair-Coolie the person sg-inveterate skin disesess peculiar to the cli When ground of Complaint arises against after all other means have failed, all Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not Contract Packets and by Private Ships, grieved may either hand the offender ever mates of India and China. It is the trae wounds, sores, uluere, and also the most exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange between this Office and each Agency there to the Police, or sand a memorandum of Current for Each Mail, and charged with of in China and Japan, viz.: Canton, the complaint and the Chair's Number to friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as cer- Commission according to the following Swatow, Amey, Fooshow, Ningpo, Shang the Registrar General. It must however tain old sores can be removed by it that Scale, viz,-
Centenai, Nagasaki, Hingo, and Yokohama, and be remeinbered, that the Registrar Genoral cannot be conquered by any other treat
alan between any two of these Agencies, can inflict only a reprimand, but neither meut,
The fee for registration is 8 cents cochine nor imprisonment, without the testimony letter, &c.
of an eye-witness on oath. This however
APPENDIX-Containing Sailing Direc No Letter, Book, or Packet of Patterns may be supplied by any Chinese who wit
tions for the Coast of China, and for the enn be Registered unless the full postage nessed the Offence, if accredited by a con-- upon it as well as the registration fen, be firnatory note from his employer.
Japan Islands; also giving the meanings of Chinese Words occurring in Charts and paid in advance in postage Stamps.
Porsens, who are inconvenienced by the down upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko-received up to half an hour before the time should notify the Registrar General, who Telters, & for registration will be pongregating of Chatra near their premises
Sailing Directions; and also a Tably of Po- sitions of places on the Chinese and Japa- bama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange fixed for closing the Mails.
neno Corsts, at which Money Orlers are being issued at
will, if practicable, establisk a Chair
The author in bis Preface says the time of their presentation.
The Stand in the nearest convenient place,
tables in Chap. Vil., for estimating prices, Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700
and as far as possible enforce the Ordinanco
measurement of good, exchanges, &c. bars Money Order Offices in the United King
in regard to it.
been selected from these constantly in pas dom, showing the Counties in which they
An attempt will be made to enforce the
among the foreign merchants in China Through Tickets issued also to New are situated, are hung up for public refer
Queen's Road, more especially in the even-Amination of Chinese Dates, during the more extended tables, by the kind ordinary Rule of the Road," York and Europe via Panama Route and ence at this Office, and also at Shanghaition, by order of His reellency Sir Richarding. It is requested that all Persons riding period from 1860 to 1869; with comparative sion of the author, P.
Those for calculating the prices of tea in along
Handbook of reference for the deter-dollars or pence have been copied from the to Europe per steamers of the Royal Mail and Yokohama.
Graves MacDonnell, that henceforward in Chairs or driving Vehicles will co-ope Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, last section of the same chapter on Move- Steam Fcket Company, the West India
pertis -pplicanta for Money Orders must.
Loureiro, Esq.
The and The Compagnie Générals Transatlan the initial of one Christian name, both of Samples of Merchandise, may be trans. of keeping the left side. tique from Aspinwall dirout Connections the Rewitter and the Payee; if the Remit up to be forwarded both by the British its Number Beard a Tariff of Fares con- mitted through the Post by the Mails made Each Street-Chair carries on the back of
BICK MAYERS, H.M.C.S.
furuished for the Guide by Patrick Harper, Esq., of the Commercial Bauk of West Coast of Central and South Americs, dinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the between this Office and each Agency thereof LEGALISED TARIEF OP, FARES FOR Cares, are connected even remotely with Chinese made at Panuma with Stoam lines upon the ter or Payee be a Pear or a Bishop, bis or Contract Packets and by Private Ships, densed from the following,
・Author's Preface.
india at Hongkong, who has had much ex by which passengers are ticketed through usual designation of such firm, such BLA
Most persons whose avocations or studies of the precious metals in Eastern Asis,
perience in the cachanges and movements Through Bill of Lading given for Freight Baring Brothers" will sufice; but the Antoy, Fond Japan, viz.: Canten, Swelow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nag-
OHAIR BEARERS, AND BOATS, vis Coute 1 Pacific Railroad and its coumers term Mears, sich as "Messrs. Ri-asaki, Hingo, and
IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG...
subjects are wont to confess the need of s been reprinted from the China Pilot,
The Appondiz of Sailing Directions auctions to the principii polute in the vington," or the name of a Company, trade between any two of these Agencies, at blie okohama, and also United States and Canadas end for Freight ing under a title which does not consist of fellowing rates of postage, which must be Half hour, 12 ets. Bour,..........20 cts. either the European or the Chinese method it; and for the Chinese coasts, the Direc convenient manual of reference for the pur- With short interruptions, the coasts from Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Bonts. pose of determining dates according to Singapore to Hakodadi are all described in Overland for England and the Continent. the names of the persons composing it, suob paid in advance, viz.
Through Bills of lading given also for as "Carron Co." is ina
inadmissible.
Three hours,..60 cta. Six hours,....78 cts. of computation; and a system of comparitions have been improved by the insertion New York and Europe vis Pauama ronte,
Not exceeding 40
cents. Day (from 6 to G),.. -The Remitter on stating that the Or Abovo 4 pz, and not exceding
One Dollat. aon for the nam and to Earope via Aspinwall Lires to porta der is to be paid only through a Bank, to
names attributed to year of the Chinese characters for the names of Night Fares (after 8 P.M.)... 802,...
10 eta, extra months, and other periods is also frequent all places that could be ascertained. ** of Mexico and ports on the West Coast of have the option of giving or withdrawing Above B ox, and not exceeding
Chair Hire to Out Districts,*
ly a desideratum with translators and Central America, and South America to ad the name of the Payee; in such care, the far as Valparaíso..
1124
readers of Chinese literature. The com Beyond Victoria and back, 50 ota, per man. piler of the following tables has thought, Favorable arents have been mano
Order will be crossed in the same way that Above 1 lb., and not exceeding
To Stanley and back, 60 Casques are commonly crossed when they
accordingly, that thair publication in Every additional ib, .......... ** Victoria Hes below the level of Robinson convenient form may prove useful, although
Special attention is directed
the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, ration of comparative calendars, etc. that Road and includes all the town between much yet remains to be done for the elabo with the Race-course a
should leave nothing to be desired. With the exception of the Cyclical Table of Years, and the Table of Solar Terms, both of which were originally compiled by Dr. Morrison, and afterwards republished with improvements in Williams' Commercial they are now copied, the whale of the mat Guide, from which (with some alteration tor assembled in the following pages in for the first thine made accessible to general referencs.
and Pacific Steamship. Company, Limited, furnish, in full, the sumaine, and, at leBook Packets, and Packeta of Patterns or rate with the Police by abserving the Rule, &c. Compiled by WILLIAM FREUE шents in Bullion," has been prepared and
or through passungers and freight to Ame-aro intended to be paid through a Bank,
rica, from Calontta, Penang and Singapore,When an Order is presented through and, from Swatow, Amoy and Fooohow.
in Chin
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the fol-
All Freight payable in adance in Muxia Bank, a receipt by any person will be snflowing rules and regulations which will be can Dollars, or on delivery n American ficient, provided the Order be crossed with strictly enforced-
Gold Coin with 8 per cent aditional, at the name of the receiving Bank, and be shipper's option.
Return Passage Tokets leaned duction of apon the whole amount for the Round Vage..
AS BECARDS BOOKS,
A Book Packet may contain any number
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+3
Licensed Bearers (each)..
*
17
presented by some Person known to be in of separate Books, Almanacks, Maps or
Hour,
... 8 cents. Half day, at are the employ of such Bank.
20 cents, Prints, and any quantity of 8.-The signature of the Payce of a Mo- or parchment (to the raclusion of lettera paper, veilom
Day, i
...86 cente, ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the whether sealed or open); and the Books, the town should understand that they are quite *Persons who make short excursions out of place provided for the purpose. If the Maps, Paper, &c., may be either printed, at liberty to pay by the hour if they prefer to do
written or plain, or any mixture of the 60, three,
For further information as to Passage Bud Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company, Praya West..
TA, HARRIS,
Agent.
Hongkong, October 7, 1860.
Payes Le nnable to write he innst sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of a Witness, who must sign his name, with his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Order,
All Igitimate binding, mounting or covering of the same or of a portion there of, will be allowed, whether such binding
Copies of the above Tariff, in English and Übinero, or of these Regulations, can be obtained on application at the Registrar General's Office,
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Published by C. A. SAINT, China Mail Ofpe, Hongkong.
Orders may be sent through any of the China Mail Agents, or direct to
OFARLES A. SAINT, (Late A. Shortrede & Co.) China Mail Ofice, Jen, 6, 1868.
For Sale. The Hongkong Signals,
Also
the Principal House Flags, belonging to are frequenting Hongkitg PHISTED IN COLORS; Frice...