4560. FEBRUARY 23, 1878.] POSTAL RATES, URD
(Subjoined we give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corro spondence to all parts of the world. Detailed rules affecting the transmis sion of packets, parcels, &c., will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices.]
DANG, "OUG
Revised Nov. 9th, 1877.) In the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given In cerite, and are, for Lottars, per half ounge, for Books, and Patterns, per two ounces,
NAŠA THE CHINA MAIL.
2nd. It must be bublished in numbers at Ţkh to Guapie The Offʊors of the Post Office correspondence exactly the same asImperial | to send small valuable trifles through the point w Intervals of not more than 81 days, and bealllyydo satisfy themselves as to the Stamps... must be printed on a sheet or sheets, un
fched
Srd. The fall title and date of publiation must be printed at the top of the first page, and the whole or part of the title and the date of pubilcatlog at the top of every subsequent page; and, this regulation applies to Tables of Contents And Indicen
nature of the contents,
There must be no writing or printing upon or, in any packet except the address the person for whom it is intended, the address of the sender, a trade mark or number, and the price of the articles.
Soldiers, and Ballors lettera
Lete. Paps.
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Post. Fans, Curios, Articles of Dress, Donobae, Hagh 1. T however, Bangy Work, and similar presents are con-Duchenne, Mons.
Evans, C. H. do not tinually being refused, the senders having Evans, East
often spent more in Postage than would have pall the freight by steamer.
No Fadden, ThomANI refund can be made on such parcels of the Fisher, Joseph 1
Fox Mr value of Stamps obliterated before the Gardner, C. J. 1 Goldark, Rey. E. 1
charged as ordinarters in they conform to the following reguls
1. Not to exceed half an ounce. No double letters are owed,
3. If from a Bolder or Sallor, hja biasa or description must be stated in full on the letter, and the commanding Officer mentor Ship, das in full ||
8. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or description must be stated in full, with name of Regiment, or Ship, de, in full.
Communication with Batavia, The Netherlands India: Packeta leave Singapore fortnightly, and are fitted to the arrival of the outward P. & O. Mail from Europe
nature of the contents was discovered.
PATTEEN).—Some difficulty in experienced
Gibson, Edward
Jas. A
Win
Lets, Papel
Selliny, Ernest Seymour, Eag Shingien Shurufully, Tyabaly Silva, A.B.11 Blater, ATI Smith, Charles 1 Smith, Geo Solomon, J.-A Spence, A. S
1 Storror, Monist.
Stan B
Stronach, W. 8. Thede, Heinrich
Tooth, R. ****Tong Hing
Honnand, Antonint Holam, E. Se Todyne, Holler, Frederics 1 Hatchinson, R.W.12 Ing. G
10. H. R. H.B Jessop
Tuckery Reb. 1.1 Babos, Grand 24 Vidal, Monant
of goods which the sender han for sale, or Hampton, of goods which he wishes to order. It is Harmon, Capt. J.1 to consist of the smallest possible quantity Capt. compatible with shewing what the goods
Hartjo, Capt. WAT are, and must have no intzinsio value.
To provide means of remitting amal sums of money to or from this Colony and between the Ports of China sad Japan, the Postmasters and Agents of this Office will in future be allowed (but not required) to Johnston, Fred, 1 purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from Kengung War 1.regd... Alfons 132ing foreign residents.
Langandarin 1 regd. Walker,
•
Weh Tan panin 1 regle Between Hongkong and. Shanghai, or Liu,
Joseph Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in Look Sung
Lúna, Miss elther direction, Money Orders must be fastesiaid, Lt. 13 12sed.15 |
Wilson, 61st Regt. Dr. Gordon Bixspherson,
8. Wing Bing Mahé. Bleedyo 1 ragd.Young Lang regle Mash, Hamry 2. Yung Fang Bol Manson, Thomas 1.
Samples of intrinsic value most not be sent to any foreign country except United or in great part of matter liko that of a of elder down, raw or thread silk, woollen
4th. supplement rate consist bow of log what is a Paitern. It is a bond file sample Gillian, W. P. 2 newspaper, or of advertisements, printed or goats hair thread, vanilla, Baffron, on a sheet or sheets, or a place or pieces of carmine, or Isinglsas, are considered to fall Hongkong Rates of Postage. Por, unstitched ; or wholly or in part of under this rule if they weigh more than engravings, prints, or lithographs Ilustra three ounces and up to this weight raw tive of articles in the newspaper. The and, pun adik, as well as coloured and Supplement must in every one be published twisted silk, may be sent to Germany,
The rule which forbids the transmission with the newspaper, and must have the title and date of publication of the newspaper through the Post of any article likely to printed at the top of every page; or, if it injure the contents of the Mall Bags or donalate of engravings, prints, or lithographs, Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Oflac is, of course, applicable to the at the top of every sheet or side.
Pattern Post, and a packet containing any thing of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Articles such as the following have been occasionally posted as Patterna, and have been detained as unfit for the Post, vis: Metal boxes, postelja Jain, and China, frult, vegetables, bunches of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp polatod instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass bottles, pleces of glass, acids of various kinds, curry combs, copper and steel en graving plates, and confectionery of all Kinds.
Newspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, troble, &c, as the case may be, but such papers or packets of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever he insorted except bona fide Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate! Prices Cur- rent may be paid either an Newspapers or Books.
N.B. masne No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union. The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, the United States, Brazil, India eluding Coylon, the Straits, and Aden), Japan, Egypt, Labuats, Mauritius, Sey. chelles, Jamaion, Trinidad, British Gulans, and Bermuda, with all French, Danish, Netherlands, Portuguese, and Spanish Co. Joules
Countries NOT in the Union.The chief tralasian Jou Be one: the us Group British North America, Africa (except Fronchy &ay Colonies); and Central America.
Postage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any route Letter
Registration,
Newspapers,
12 conta per oz. -8 canta,
*
2 cents each. Books and Patterns, & conts per 2oz
A packet containing two or more news papers is not chargeable with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on book packet of the same weight.
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A newspaper posted unpaid, or a packet of newspapers posted either unpaid or insuficiently paid, is treated as an unpaid or insufficiently paid book packet of the same weight
The postage must be prepald either by an adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped
wrapper.
No newspaper can now be sent through the post a second time for the original postage. For each transmission a fresh postage is required.
The French Packte for Batavia wait at Singapore for the Packet from China and run fortnightly.
It follows that, to forward Correspon desce to Batavia with the least delay, the following are the best opportunities
in the 5. W. Mansoon
The English Mail. The French Mail, tez ord
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In the N.E. Monsoon, Private Steamer a few days before the
English Males'i
The French Mail, vafis, "Eimumindo crib, I
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The Stamps tendered for sale must not exceed $26 in value, must be perfectly clean, in good condition, and fu atrips of at least two as no separate Stamps will be purobased. They must be presented per- sonally or accompanied by a note.
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Anazi
Beemah
regd. White,
For Merchant Ships
The Postmaster.or Agent may postpone The Post Office is not, by law, responsible purchasing his publis fands in hand are for any loss or inconvenience which may not sufficent, and he will refuse to purchase Buch articles as selssors, knives, razorário from the non-delivery, mis-sending, in any case which appears doubtful or Every newspaper must be posted either forks, steel pons, nails, keys, watch machi or mis-delivery of any letter, book, or other auspicious. He is allowed to charge a without a cover (in which case it must not nery, matal tubing, pieces of, metal ter postal poket (even if the packet be re- Commission of one percent on all Stamps Adonis be fastened, whether by means of gum, ore, provided that they be packed and gistered); nor is the Post Office responsible purchased. Wafer, sealing Wax, postage stamp, or guarded in so secure a manner as to afford for any injury which a packet may kustain Letters containing Stamps should be Buisn otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at complete protection to the contents of the To guard against each. injury all postal scoured from observation."
during its transmission, lņi»i/
Registered, and, the Stamps should be Bataria both ends, so as to admit of easy removal mail bags and to the Officers of the Post
....! : Benarty, 5.5. for examination. If this rule be infringed Office, while at the same time they may be packets which are likely to suffer from easily examined, may be sent as samples to stamping or from great pressure should be
Birkenor the newspaper is treated sa a letter,
Every newspaper must be so folded, as the following countries, but to these alone placed in strong covers; and even with this to admit of the title being readily in the Azores, Belgium, Cape de Verd precaution agila batllanhould be sent alands, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hol- through the Post. It should be remembered spected,
land, Madeira, Moldavia, Norway, Fort- that every packet has to be handled several gal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey United times pethat it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mail bag ; and States, Wallschts, and the British Colonies, that, whenever the bag has in the course of Indigo cannot be sent to any place abroad."
A packet of patterns or samples sunti to its transmission to be transferred by means the Azores, Cape de Verd Islanda, France, of the railway apparatus, the risk of injury Madeira, Portugal, or by French packet, is much increased. to Turkey, Syria, or Egypt, must not exceed 18 inches in length, width, ez
inches in width or depth. must not exceed 24 inches in length or 18
A newspaper or packet of newspapers which contains any enclosure except sup plements la charged as a letter, unlets the enclosure be such as might be sent at the book rate of postage, and the entire packet be sufficiently prepaid as a book packet, in which case it is allowed to pass.
Lete, Fape... buon Lai. Paga
$2... Loweswater sisih 01 regi. Madra...and can
2.......... Maggie Dongar I (1 rega Morquinai Argylál
Martha Jackson,
1:
Bessenger Mikado
1 North Star
1. Northampton Ozeada
During the N. E. Monsoon, the Charterers and Agents beastling ships for Manila, Carnatio Saigen and Bangkok are requested to give Carrizal notice to the Post Office of the departures Cashmere
Ceylon of such ships.
No correspondence will be forwarded by Chandos sailing vessel but such as is specially to Charon Wattana 1... Phaeton directed,
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Chis
Clarrum
282: Peruvian
2...1. P.
Carleton 1 11 Redive G of Aberdeen ...*. Benton
•Cochrane se Rhuddland Oratiol
Icles,9.0.1
(except there belonging to the Foetal
Correspondence for the West Indies W. Cochran Union, the Bahamas, and Hoyti), for Costa Granada, Paraguay, and Uruguay can no longer be sant vil San Francisco,...
Exceptional rates, to the United King. / written in it, or upon ita cover, is charged | depth; a packet to any other place abroad except to the persons to whom they are Bion, Honduras, Monte Video, Newward Albroth
dom and Union Countries served through the United Kingdom via Brindisi only Letters,
16 cents per o2,
Registration, Newspapers,
vents. É cents each. Booke and Patterns, 0 cents per 2 on.
There is no charge on redirected sorre. spondence within the Postal Union..
Postage to Non Union Countries. W. Africa, Falkland Islands, Lagos, Gold Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cape Verd Islanda :--
Letters,
Registration,
Via en Via Fla
Brancace, or Marenkian Breads
Books & Patterns, 6
A newspaper which has any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter
No paoket of newspapers may be above as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter.
5 lbs. in weight, nor above two feet In length, one foot in width, nor one in depth.
To provide the greatest possible facilities for posting Correspondence for Europe to up to the latest moment before the departure of the French Packets, arrange- ments have been made for receiving at the Post Office late letters--except those to and through Australia-from 11.10 A., ita 11.80 A., Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 centarextra postage, and
The above arrangement is intended 'to
No Information can be given respecting letters which pass through à Post Office addressed; and in no other way in-official formation of a private character allowed to be made public. A Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has no reason to belleve that the person whose address It is would disapprove of his doing so.
Postmasters are not allowed to return any
letter or other packet to the writer or sender, or to anyone else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be written thereon.
Elgin, 4. Elizabeth Dougall Elizabeth Ostel
Emily Chaplus
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Honey Order Regulations. M. Young
1.-Money Orders on the United KingEmpraza dom are issued at Hongkong, Shanghai and Endymida Yokohama. Shanghai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa.
2.--Small sums may be remitted between the other Forts by means of Postage Stampa.
1 River Taga
Roderick Hay
··X Rosinä
Roving Enifor 3.1.6.2. More 3..... Sapphire ** 1.Barsh Nickathon
1. Six Harry Pazzzi S. 1. Sophia 15 ko at
.....
Star of the North
2*Store Dealez
Strathmore
Firth of Tay Fitzpatrick, sa Florence Bailey Garmouth General Caulfield George Crashow 5 Szerge Genevieve Hangermitage
Armitag
Postmasters are not bound to give change, and when money la pald at a Post Office, nor are they authorised to demand change; whether sisht nga or otherwise, no question
or can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter, rejashr
Postmasters are not bound to weigh any
ទ A emilar supplementary Mail will be letters or other packets for the public, but made up for Shanghai by the English and they may do so if their duty be not thereby French Contract Steamers, the late letters impeded. ! being received from 10 minutos after, up to half an hour after the time of closing. The inte fee will also be 18 penta.
A book-packet may contain any number of separate books or other publications (including printed or lithographed letters), photographs (when not on glass or in cases containing glass or any like anbatanos), drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity use for writing or printing upon and the of paper, or any other substance in ordinary books or other publications, prints, maps, meet occasional emergencies, and not for &o., may be either printed, written, on- the regular posting of, extensive correspon- graved, lithographed, or plain or any deuce, Should it be found, therefore, that
legilmato largo timanageable numbers of binding, mounting, or covering of a book, are habitually thrown upon the Department ds, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, at the last moment, a heavier late fee will whether such binding, dre, be loose or be imposed, attached; as aldo irollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, pens or 31 88
pencils in the case of pocket-books, de, None. and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually 8,10
appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, do. must not be sent as a separate pašket.
· Øirculars;==i;e; letters which are hitond- ed for transmission in identical terms to Reveral persons, and the whole or the greater part of which is printed, engraved, or lithographed, hay also be sent by book post.
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22
*98
13
Newspapers,
Book & Patterns,
8
10
Aspinwall, Panama :---
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapers,
18 None, 4
None.
Canada, Vancouver, Prince Edward's Is- land, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
Lettera
12
16
Registration,
8
12
Newspapers,
2*
4
2
6
Babamas, Hay!! :-
Letters,
14:
34
None
Newspapers, --
4
B
Books Patterns, 4*
But a book-packet may not contain any letter, or communication of the 'zature of a letter (whether, separate or otherwise), None upless it be a circular-letter or be wholly printed; nor any enclosure sealed or in any way closed against Inspection; nor any other endlosure not allowed by Rule 3. Í this rule be infringed, the entire packet is charged as a letter.
Registration, None.
4 Books & Patterns, 6
Bolivia, Chill, Ecuador, and Peru:---
Books & Patterns, 14
Letters,
30
46
Newspapers,
6.
6
10
Begistration,
12
None.
Hawaiian Kingdom :—
Letters,
10:
16.
Registration,
None.
None.
4 6
Newspapers,
Books & Patterns, 8
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Miscellaneous Notlees.
There will be communication with Aus tralla via Batavia and Port Darwin, as follows:-
Leave Hongkong by
French Packet,...Sept. 16. Nov. 2, Leave Batavia..........Oct. 1. Dec. 13. Due at Port Darwin,..Oct. 12. Deo, 24.
$1878 Bydney,.........Oct. 31. Jan. 12. Melbourne, Nov. 6. Jan. 18. Adelaide,.....Nov. 12. Jan. 24. For the present the correspondence can only be paid to Batavia, from which place it may possibly be forwarded without fur ther charge.
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Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon,
The Philippine Islands being now admit- ted into the General Postal Union, it fol lows that all paid correspondence received from Manila in the mails will be delivered free by this Office, and that all paid cor respondence sent to Manila in the mails should be delivered free there.
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indies, and other countries with hot olimates, with wax (except such as is specially prepared), 1 attended with mach inconvenience, and frequently with seriona injury, not only to the letters to sealed but to the other letters fa the mall, from the melting of the wax sud adhesion of the letters to each other. The so, to use either wafers or gum, and public are therefore recommended, in all to advise their correspondents in the cous tries referred to, to do the same.
Humboldt
4
Long
....Tai Watts
2- Thaler, 9.3.
.......... The Muray
La Patung Bell
11. Tallafeny)
Talloongarmi
residents at the smaller Ports in this way. 3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to An application for an order is filled ag
resclosed with a stamped, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest issuing office. The application Hermann must be accompanied with the full amount BOBER, 3.5. (including commission) in cheque, postage Hambe stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and India
Irengi little margin should be left for variations James Shephard 28, Ulloch of exchange. The Postmaster larues the Jessie Jameson 1
Jubilee. order, sends it on in the envelope, and returns the change, if any, by first oppor Kaiser tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it Enisow were to be registered, as it always should Ladoren be. Oare should be taken to send these args applications in time, as the Money Order Lass of Gawlor Offices close some hours before the depar- Laura R. tures of the mails
Burnham
No order must exceed $10, or in Leon Crespo clade any fraction of a penny. Orders will Lombardian
Loonló
and paid at the rate of the day when the be drawn at the current rate of the dayt advice arrived.
The commission is as follows:-
Orders on the United Kingdom, Up to £2..... 18 cents.
24
„.............36
810..........73 "Local Money Orders.
Up to $20.....lỡ cents. 50............30
Lista of Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom may be consulted at Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.
6.Names, must be given in full (expect when there is more than one. Christian name) but the name of the Payee need not be given ff the order be crossed (as cheques are crossed). It can then be paid only. through a Bank, and may afterwards be specially crossed to any Bank.
The registration of a packet makes lis transmission much more, secure, inasmuch as, under ordinary circumstances, a regia- tered packet can be traced through its whole course; and thus the loss of a registered packet is a very rare occurrence. Neverthe- less large sums of money or other articles of great value should not be sent through the post, even If the packet be registered; na the machinery of the Department in not arranged with a view to such transmission. By law, the Post Office is not responsible for the safe delivery of registered packets; though any officer who may neglect his duty on this point will be called to strict account. Bent in unregistered letters, valu able articles are exposed to risk, and offer temptation whish ought not to be created; and the Department cannot in any way undertake the safe conveyance of auch packets. All inland or colonial letters, therefore, which contain coin, and all inland letters which contain watches or jewellery, even though they be posted without registration, are treated as register. ed, and charged on delivery with a double 8.If the order be not presented within registration fee of eightpence in addition to six months an additional commission-will, the ordinary postage and any such letters be charged; if not within twelve months,
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A book packet may be posted either. without a cover (in which case It must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing war, postage stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover entirely open at None, both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination otherwise If in treated as a letter. For the W. Indies, (except as above) Costa Sreater security of the contents, however, Bica, Guatemala, Monte Video, Newt may be tied at the ends with string Granada, and Venezuela :-
Postmasters being authorised to out the string in such cases, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet.
No book-packet may be above 6 lbs. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government, offices.
When, owing to a great and unusast influx of letters, books, to, the transmis sion, as delivery of the letters would be delayed if the whole mall were dealt with without distinction, book-packets may be Wapapers kept back till the next despatch or delivery. letters sont outside the mails. These will which cannot be registered in time to ba the money will be forfeited. When the
Letters,
20
34
Newspapers,
B
&
Books & Patterns, 14
A
Registration
to British & Union)
West Indies only, 12
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji (3), Natal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascen
sion.
A
Letters, by Contract Packet 24; by Pri- tate Ship 12, Registration, 12; 2: Books and Patterns; 4. 201
A small extra charge is made on delivery. + Cannot be sent via Ban Francisco.
LOGAL AND TOWN PORTAGE
Letters.
Registration.
Bradedamoji
Biz & Phase
Për 201
Within any Town or Bettle- tment, or between Hongkong, Cantos, and Macao, in either direction,.ie - did
Between any other two off the following places (through a British Office) vit. Hong- kong, Macao, Forts of China! and Japan, Bangkok, Saigon, and the Philippines, by Pri ople Ship memayum 4 89 2
Between the xbove by Con-) tract Mail.
124
The limit of site for a book packet addressed to any place abroad is 24 inches In length and 14 inches in width or depth.
PATTEINS.
Article IX of the Postal Treaty of Bazne provides that Neither the senders nor the addresssss of letters and other postal packets shall be called upon to pay, either In the Country of Origin, or In that of Destination, any tax or duty other than" the recognised rates levied (in the case of paid correspondence) by the despatching Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at one be brought to the notios of the proper authorities, in either Colony.
The above does not apply in any to loose
always be charged on arrival in Hongkong and probably the Manila Office will adopt
the same courde.
Complaints are sometimes received of extra charges on correspondence exchanged between this Colony and Saigon, but It is believed it would be found in all cases that the letters, o, had been sent loose.
Any Foreign stamps on loose corres spondence are obliterated in this Office.
They mast not be of intrinsic valine, This rule exoludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have a value of its own, apart from its mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of any
Indian Correspondente, material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be con Indian Mail Packets,
Unpaid Lestaré are not received for the sidered as having on this ground an intrin
The Fre-payment of dorrespondence for sio value.
Pattern and Sample Post to selenies and the Straite, India, Ceylon, and Adon is com foreign countries in restricted to bona fide pulaory by whatever opportunity it is
forwarded. trade patterns or samples of merchandise, Goods sent for sale, or in exsetition of an order (however small, the quantity way bo),
Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General or any articles sent by one private indivii 4pal to another, which are not patua, for Slam has been good enough to make patterns or samples, are not adtolssible. arrangements by means of which correspon. Patterns or samples, when practionble, dence can be Registered to Bangkok, at the qust be sent in opvern open at the ends, usual charge of 8 centi. and in stoh a manner as to be easy of examination. But samples of seda, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot be sent
Registration to Bangkok,
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Soldiers and Sailors' Letters, Privates in H. M. Army or Nayy, Non- commissioned Officers, Army Schoolmas
in covers of this kind-but such articles Any publication fulfilling the conditions may be posted enclosed in boxes, or tors (not superintending or First Claes) or bags of linen, of other material fastened Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters in such a manner that they may be readily to the United Kingdom via Southampton opened of, in the case of seeds, do, for by British Packet, for one penny or via the United States of America, Holland, Brindisi by British Packet for three-pezve. and its possessions, Belgium, Denmark, Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of Greece, Portugal and its possessions, and Switzerland, 13 bags entirely closed, prov vided such closed bags are transparent, ce
hereafter named can pass as a newspaper.
The conditions are as follows m lat. The publication must consist wholly or in great past of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topics, with or without advertise.
But not Warrant Offerre, vidi, Annistamá Engluser, Grupner, Sextawala, or Gerposter,
7-No order can be paid till the Payee
have signed it in the proper place. An
order can be transferred to another office
on payment of an additional commission. In case of loss of an order, necessity for stopping payment, or the like, appilation should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructions.
A
forwarded by the Mall for which they are order is once paid no further claim can be posted are detained for the next despatch, entertained. Even if the letter do not contain any article 9.- No order can be paid until the advice of intrinsic value, it should, If It be very | relative to it has been received. important, be registered.
Most countries to which Hongkong for warda Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union ne being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.
follows
* Made out on a printed form which is supplied
gratis, tre ann
Orders on Shanghal are drawn at 8 per cent.
premiam in all dares.
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, 7th, 22, 1878.
Lata. Paph.
&
Lets. Papa. Mannary, J.
1 Merah, Albert Mills, Charles F. Mirza
I
Ajatt, Mirza Baidar 1 Fogd.
Mias
1. No Latter or Paoket, whether to be registered or unregistered, can be received for Postage if it contains gold or silvermoney, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is ilable to Oustomi duties. 1
9. This Regulation prohibits the sending Adwands Cora of Patterns of datiable artioles, unlèm the
& Co. quantity sent be so small as to make the Asplans, Edwin
Hyrdo asimple of no value,
The limits of weight allowed ate e Bamby, Alfred 1 Raynes & Co.+1
· Mejory. Booke and Esperasto Britfak Offices,
8 Ths to the Continent, &o,, 2 lbs. Blight, John J, Nicholls, Jas.
. B. Fatterns to British Ofices, 5 Tbs. If with Brown, Capt..
ont intrinsic value to the Continent, Bun Hong Han 1 rogd
Burnell,
Poulsen, H. Campbell, W The following articles cannot be sent Care, George 1 hk. 18. Moder
Robertson, by Post at all i Glass, Liquids, Gunpowder, Ches, Tas Ong 1 Rollan Matshes, Candles, Roar, Indigo, Dye-atufa, Crovat, Philip L
Rosahl, E. offensive or injurions to persone dealing De Sons &Co., or whatever is dangerous to the Maile, or Dantra, B. B. 1 Bosenthal, P with themblie is reminded that, Deverill, John
Rutgers H
in China and Japan there is no such thing Desterate,
PARCEL. is) 24 Parcel Post. -Much trouble and disap- Miss Exams printment is caused by paraitent attempts Doherty, 7.
AZING THE
Load
PA1
Byen, Capt. John 1 Farda, Monat. Esoté, Mr
bt. Emmetics
Andscious Lapwing
1 Twilight
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Windows
Yentai, fill Zamora
Ziba.
For H. M. Ships.
Lets. Pap.
-8 Victor Emanuel 5.
Books, etc. without Covers.
Ago.
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald. Art of Building. Astonbladet, ka
Belgravia.
Bromer Handelsblatt.
Catalogue of Steam Engines. Court Journa
Dagbladet. Daily Recorder. Daily Telegraph. Der Landbote. Dar Weinlendar. Die Modenwelt. Dorf Chronik: El Imparcial. Fanfulla,
Fucha and Kunad, p.o. Gazetta de Venezia: Geneeskundige Courant.
Gec. Curling po.
Germanin Lebens Bervicherungs Artlan
Gesellschaft
Glasgow Weakly Herald, Grammation Italiana.
Ilustrirte Zeitschrift für händen - umä
Yuskerhunde.. me
Iron Trade Olzenler,
Jahroshbericht,
Japan Herald Hall Summary. J. Monton en Zonen, pic. Journal Amusant
Journal de Débats.
Le Nord.
Le Propagateur;
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper. London Iron Trade Exchange.
Mad,
Muller & Co.'s Hagen
Mitobell's Marfilms Reglater,
New Zealand Advertiser. Niederländische Handels, kai
Norddertsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Fattle Ledger.
Punch.
Engione.
Ferns des Deux Mondor,
Rotterdamsche Courant.
Bampie af Colton.
Sample of Ribbatia..
Standards
Stataten dor Lebens und Panelona Bar
A səchertingi.
Stieler's Bohul Atta.
Bouth Faside Timón,
Teviotdale Reperd,
The Times Weekly Ediklan,
Zosball & Copil