No. 4826.-DECEMBER 21, 1878.]
POSTAL BATES. [Babjoined we give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corre spondence to all parts of the world. Detailed rules affecting the transmis mon of packets, parcels, dc, will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices.]
THE GRINA MAIL.
title and date of publication of the newspaper, complota protection to the contents of the printed at the top. of every page; or, if it mail bags and to the Officers of the Fost consists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, Office, while at the same time they may be at the top of every sheet or side..
easily examined, may be sont sa samples Indigo cannot be sent to any place.
A packet containing two or more newa- papers is not ohargeable with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.
To provide the greatest possible facilities for posting Correspondence for Europe, The postage must be prepaid either by and, up to the latest moment before the adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped departure of the Fronch Packets, arrange. wrapper.
ments have been made for receiving at the Post Office late letters-except those to and through Australia-from-11.10 a.. to 11,80 A.M. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 cents extra postage.
Every newspaper must be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing waz, postage stamp, cr Hongkong Rates of Postage, otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so aanto admit of easy removal for examination. If this rule be infringed the newspaper is treated as a letter.
(Revised June 7th, 1878,)
In the following Statements and Tables the Rates are giveu în cents, and ere, for Letters, per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, per two ounces.
Every newspaper must be so folded, as to admit of the title being readily fa-
pooted.
A newspaper or packet of newspapera which contains any enclosure except sup plements charged as a letter, unless 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.
Newspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, &., 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 be inserted except bona fide Supplementa. Printed
A newspaper which has any letter, or any matter may, however, be: enclosed, if the communication of the nature of a letter, whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Our-written in it or upon its cover, is charged gent may be paid either as Newspapers or
as an unpaid or inaaliiciently paid letter. Books.
No packet of newspapers may bo above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above two feet in longth, one foot in width, nor one in depth,
N.R. means No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union. The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, most foreign possessions In Ania, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritian, all N. America, Brazil, Peru, The Argentine Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, Labuan, with all Danish, French, Netherlands, Portuguese, and Spanish Colonies.
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A similar supplementary Mail is made
up for Shanghai by the English and French Contrast Steamors, the late letters being received from 10 minutes after, up, tó half an hour after the time of closing." The late fee in also 18 cents,
Miscellaneous Notices.
Local Delwery.
1. All correspondeice posted before 5 P.10. on any week day for addresses in Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unleas the delivery should be retarded by the Contract Mails.
No
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence,
Dea. 20, 1878.
the latter, and the commanding Officer | Fancy Work, and similar presents are con must sign his name, with name of Regi tinually being refused, the senders having often spent more in Postage than would ment, or Ship, do, in fully de description must be stated in full, with refund can be made on such parcels of the
5. If to à Soldier or Sailor, his class or have paid the freight by stoamor.
name of Regiment, or Ship, &c., in full. value of Stamps obliterated before the
nature of the contents was discovered,
PATTERNS.-Some difficulty isoxperienced fn. obtaining a general understanding of Ainsbury, Capt. what is a Pattern. It is a bona fide sample Alexander, Harry1 of goods which he wishes to order. It is Amiss, Wm. of goods which the sonder has for sale, or Ament, Mrs Mary,
Mails for the United Kingdom, do, by French Packet.
Under Instructiona from the London Post Uffies, the Mails for the United King dom which have hitherto been forwarded
Lala. Paps.
Lets. Fage
1
4 Lamstom, W.
Lus, Ellaribada 1
Mackie, Mxa Marmont, B.
2
Costad 1
J
via Marseilles, will kencaforth be forwarder to consist of the smallest possible quantity | Arawgothunda, 1 reg od, £.2
vid Naples, as it is understood that a gain of twelve hours results from the adoption of this route. Ska jag k
As it would be extremely inconvenient to divide the mail, and no practical advantage
compatible with sliewing what the goods are, and must have no intrinsic value.
Atkins, John
1
Baux, Moner, G. 1 Beattie, Joseph Beguin, Monra. Benson, James 1 Benton, J.
Mies A. 1
would result from doing so, all correspond- hetween the Ports of China and Japan, the hore, Wm. 1
ence intended for the United Kingdom by. French Packet will be sent via Naples, even though marked via Marseilles,
An impression appears to prevail that correspondence for the Mediterranean sta- tions, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, the Levant, Turkey, do, can be forwarded only by British Panket. It can be forwarded also by French Packet, and if so forwarded generally arrives a week earlier than if it had been detained for the British Mail.”
2. Invitations, &o, can generally be
The Post Office is not, by law, responsible delivered within Victoria at the private houses of the addressese rather than at for any loss or inconvenience which may arine from the non-delivery, mis-aonding, places of businuse, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the sender, otherwise all or mis-delivery of any lotter, book, or other correspondence is invariably delivered at postal packet (even if the panket be re the nearest place of business. (See Fostalgistered) nor is the Post Office responsible for any injury which a packet may sustain Guide, par, 103.)
| during its trasamission.
B. Boxholders who desire to send Cirou- lats, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, o, all of the same weight, to addresses in Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Forts of China and Japan, may deliver them to the Post Office unstamped, the postage being then Kach charged to the sender's account. batch must consist of at least ten.
To guard against such Injury all poatal packets which are likely to suffer from stamping or from great pressure should be placed in strong covers and even with this precaution no fragile article should be sent through the Pont. It should be remembered that every packet bas to be handled severa) times; that it is exposed to considerable En-pressure and friction In the mail bagi aud that, whenever the bag has in the course of its transmission to be transferred by moang of the railway apparatos, the risk of injury is much incressed.
Countries or in the Union. The chief countries not in the Union are: the Ausgraved, lithographed, or plain, or any Boxholders may also send Patterns
tralscian Group, and Central America.
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 contalning glass or any like substanos), drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, or any other substance in ordinary use for writing or printing upon; and the books or other publications, prints, maps, & may be either printed, written, en mixture of thoro. Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, &o, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, &o. be loose or attached; an also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper 2 cents each.
or otherwise) in the case of books, pens or poncile in the case of pocket-booke, do, "Books and Patterns, 4 cents per 2 oz. and, in short, whatever is necessary for the Exceptional rates, to the United King-safe transmission of such articles, or usually dom and Unton. Countries served through the United Kingdom via Brindisi only Letters,
16 cents per oz,
8-vents.
Postage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any toute :--
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapers,
12 cents per + oz.
8 conte
4 cents each,
Registration, Nowspapers, Books and Patterns, 6 cents per 2 oz.
There is no charge on redirected corre spondence within the Postal Union,
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Aspinwall (2), Bahamas, Guatemala (N.1.), Haytı (N.), Mexico (r.), Fanama (N.), Salvador (8.2), and Venezuela (..) —
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapers,
Fla Sen Tie S.Hampton Vía Francisco, or Marsellies. Brindlel
34 16
38 12
None. 12
4
4. 8
6
10
Books & Patterns,
Bolivia, Chili, Costa Rica (N.E.), Enua- dor (N.B.), Now Granada (v.1.), Nicaragua (N.B.):-
appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, da must not be sent as a separate packet.
Oirculars,c., letters which are intend- ed for transmission in Identical terms to several persons, and the whole or the groater part of which is printed, engraved, or lithographed, may also be sent by book post.
But a book-packet may not contain any letter, or communication of the nature of a letter (whether separate or otherwise), unless it be a circular-letter or be wholly printed; ser sag enclosure sealed or in any If this way closed against inspection, rule be infringed, the entire packet is charged as a letter.
4 book-paoket may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gun, wafer, sealing wax, postage stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination; | otherwise it in treated as a letter. For the greater security of the contents, however, It may be tied at the ends with string Postmasters betog authorised to out the string in such cases, although if they do so None, they must again tie up the packet.
No book-packet may be above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches la depib, unless it be sent to or from one of the
Government offices.
Letters,
80
84
38
Newspapers,
6
в
8
Books & Patterus, 14
10
12
Registration,
12
None.
Hawaiian Kingdom :--
Letters,
16
Registration,
Newspapers,
Nono. 4*
16 None.
20
None,
Books & Patterns, 8*
4 6
6
18
W. Indies (except as above), Paraguay,
Droguay
Letters,
34
38
4
A
Books & Patterns,
8
10
Registration
to British & Union)
West Indies only, I
8
8"
Newspapers,
Australia, New Zealand, Tremania, Fiji, Natal, Caps, St. Helena, Ascension.
to the son plans in the same way. velopes containing Patterns may be wholly closed If the nature of the contente be fixat exhibited or stated to the Postmaster General, as he may consider necessary, and approved by him. Printed Circulars may be inserted in such Pattern/Packets.
Local Parcel Post,
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post between any of the British Font (ffices in China or Japan, as well as to Macro, Pak- hoi, Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, They must not exceed the following dimen. signs, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, nor weigh more than 5lbs. The postage will be 20 cents per lb., which will include Registration. The parcels may be wholly closed if they bear this special endoree- ment, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LEITER, but any parcel may be opened by direction of the Poetmaster General.
2. The following cannot be transmitted: Parcele insufficiently packed or protected,
or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, &o.) Glass, Liquids, Explosive subota: ces, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, Tor, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Maile, or likely to be- come offensive or injurious in transit.
8. Parcels will as a general rule be for warded by Private Ship, not by Contract Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the right of selecting the opportunity for trana- missfun, and of delaying delivery in case the number of parcels is such as to retard other correspondence. No responsibility is scepted with regard to any parcel, but the system of Registration will secure the renders against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
4 The public are cautioned not to son- found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Europe, dé, which does not exist,
No, Information can be given respecting letters which pass through a Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addressed; and in no other way is official Information of a private character allowed to be made public. A Postmonster may, however, give an address if he has no reason to believe that the person whose addrean it is would disapprove of his doing so, letter or other packet to the writer or sender, Postmasters are not allowed to return any or to any one also, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be writton thereon.
Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness, or weight can be entertained after it has been removed
from the counter,
Postmasters are not bound to weigh any letters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded..
To provide means of remitting amall Bums of money to or from this Colony and Postmasters and Agents of this Office will in future.be allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from foreign residents.
Caldwell, Miss
Callaghan, Dr
Between Hongkong and Shanghai, or Andrew
Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in either direction, Money-Orders must be used.
The Stamps tendered for sale must not exceed $50. In value, must be perfectly clean, in good condition, and In strips of at least two, ae no separate Stamps will be purchased. They must be presented per sonally or accompanied by a note.
The Posiniaater or Agent may postpene. purchasing if his public funds in hand aro not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase in any case which appears doubtful or suspicious. He is allowed to charge a Commission of one per cent on all Stampa purchased.
Letters containing Stamps should be Registered, and the Stamps should be secured from observation.
1
More,
Mias
Ellon-Face, Madge, Wm. Muller
A.
1
Neo Teing Siew 1 regd. 1 Patterson, MB:1
Persse, Capt.
Me Pogson, R.
"Haydon, 2
Quang Tong Tai 1
W. M. Reily.
rely, Chur, 2 Richmond, 1 - Aldrow
Hugh Clatand, Mons, J.1 - - Colville, D. D.
Capt.
John W. Jobn
Oreaton, James 1 Cristoforis, G. do 1 Cross, Mira S. J, 1
Daelin, Moner, 1
Mo sr.
L.
Esteban,
E. O,
MI
2
Oledoni y Evans, James S. 1 Garcia, Juliana 1 Garstin, Major Banner, G. Hemptinne, Monar. Hi Loi Howard, Mra
During the N.E. Monsoon, the Charierers Jensen, C. and Agents-of-sailing ships for Manila Kolly, Mr Saigon, Haifong and Bangkok are requested to give notice to the Post Office of the de-wong Tay partures of such ships,
No correspondence will be forwarded by sailing vessel but such as in specially co directed.
The Stamp Office being now provided with a 3 cent die, Books of Receipts, Rent Collectors' Broks, dro., can be stamped beforehand in the same manner as Cheque Books, Loose receipt forms can also bo stamped if required.
Honey Order Regulations. 1. Money Orders on the United King dom and the Straits Fettlements are issued at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama. Shangbai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa.
2-Small suma may be remitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Stamps.
1
Cheong Lumerton, Henry 1 Larnach, J. W. 1 Len forg Leys, Robt. R. Lumley, John
..2
Roberts,
Roche,
A.
1 Roberts, W 0 1 John 2 Rosado, Eulalia Ma de Luz Rosendah, P. Sume, W. F. D. 1 Sheather, Beaman Smith, Goo.
O..
& Co., B.
Do 20
Stewart, Capt. Tafell, William 1 Talpay, Cap. Frd. Tanner, J. B. Taylory Wau.Hart 1
Alex.
Thornton, Wm. 1 Veltz,
Miss Martha Wai Chiung Walker, Rabt, Walker, Thos
1
1.regd.
White, Wm. E, Whyte, Jun Wildach, F. 30.1 -Williams, John 1
1 Wing On Chong 1
For Merchant Ships.
Lets. Papa.
Abbey Cowpor 2 1 Irigo
Exte. Pare
Janier Shepherd ₫ 1
Albyn'e Isle
5
Aleppo
2
Allice
1 regd.Java
Altcar
1
Alumnas
Ann Adamaon Arabelin Asier Athene Banjar Bahar, 点滴。 Balestry Bertha Marion Bertio Biglow Black Watch Brisbane Bury St.
Edmunds Calden Cashmere
Cixea
Cerea
Собто
COSMO
Jessie Jamieson
1. Jessie MacDonald1
B
Lady Penrhyn 8 Ď.2 Lord Macaulay
Lota Lota
Madeleine
Mogadis
regd.Marcia, s..
Maritime Uzion
Blair
Mary
2
1
1
1
Fraser Mary Mary Smith
MoNear
1&2
- Moss Glozi
1 NYERSA
1. Overdale
Pacific Slope
Palestine Farthead
weseunal
1 Pelha
18
7
B
Pateral, .. Pilgrim
1 regd.
2 Premier
2
3. Many Money Orders are supplied to residents at the smaller Ports in this way. An application for an order is filled up, and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at The practice of sexling letters passing to the nearest issuing offics. The application Challenge and from the East and West Indies, and must be accompanied with the full amount channel Queen other countries with hot climates, with wax (including commission) in cheque, postage Charmer (except such as is specially prepared), is stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Citarum attended with much inconvenience, and little margin should be left for variations Cirkinud. frequently with serious injury, not only to of exchange. The Postmaster inaues the Columbian, s.8. the letters so sented but to the other lotters order, sends it on in the envelope, and in the mail, from the melting of the wax and returns the change, if any, by frat oppor- Cerona adhesion of the letters to each other. The tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it Correntes public are therefore recommended, in all were to be registered, as it always should Countess of Errol 5 such cases, to use either wafere or gum, and be. Care should be taken to send these Dharwar to advise their correspondente In the coun-applications in time, as the Money Order Eleanor When, owing to a great and ungsunl
tries referred to, to do the same.
Offives close some hours before the depar- Exminis Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon. gion or delivery of the letters would be influx of letters, books, o., the transmis
tures of the malla.
Espiegle The Philippine Islands being now admit.
4.-No order must exceed £10, or in- Fabins
Estrone delayed if the whole mail were dealt with ted into the General Postal Union, it fol-The registration of a packet makes its without distinction, boek-packets may be lowthat all paid correspondance received transmission much more secure, inasmuch clude any fraction of a penny. Orders will
Fair Lendor kopt back till the next despatch or delivery.from Manila in the mails will be delivered as, under ordinary circumstances, a regis-be drawn at the current rate of the dayt
free by this Office, and that all paid cartered packet can be traced through ite whole and paid at the rate of the day when the Fa respondence sent to Manila in the mails course; and thus the loss of a registered advice arrived.
packet is a very rare occurrence, Neverthe should be delivered free there,
Article IX of the Postal Treaty of Borne foss large sums of money or other articles provides that "Neither the senders nor the of great value should not be sont through addressees of letters and other postal the post, even if the packet be registered; as packets shall be called upon to pay, either the machinery of the Department la not. In the Country of Origin, or in that of arranged with a view to such transmission.
PATTERNS.
:
Lattara, by Contract Packet 24; by Pri- a value of its othe quantity of any Destination, any tax or duty other than " By law, the Post Office is not responsible
vate Ship 12, Registration, 12; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 4.
* A small extra charge is made on delivery.
LOCAL AND TOWN POSTAGE.
Within suy Town or Settle- ment, or between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either direction.........
Between any other two of the following places (through a British Office) viz. Hong-
kong, Macao, Ports of China And Japan, Bangkok, Cochin
Lettera.
Registration.j
Newspapers.
Bks. & Pitus.
For
2 oz
282 2
China, Tonquin, and the Phi- Uppines, by Private Ship 4832
Between the above by Con- tract Mail,
8824
They mast not be of intrinsic value, This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have apart from Its mere vie as
pattern; and material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be con- sidered as having on this ground an intrin- sic value.
Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries is restricted to bond fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise, Goods sant for sale, or in execution of th order (however small the quantity may bo), or any articles sent by one private indivi. dual to another, which are not actual patterns or samples, are not admissible;
Patterns or samples, when practicable, must be sont in covers open at the end, and in such a manner as to be easy of examination. Samples of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot be sout. in covers of this kind,but such articles only,may be posted enclosed in boxes, or bags of linen or other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds, &c., la bagz entirely closed, provided auch closed bags are transparent, so as to enable the Officers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the con- tente.
.
There must be no writing or printing upon or in any packet except the address
the recognised rates levied (in the case of paid correspondeno) by the despatching Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at once be brought to the notice of the proper authorities, in either Colony.
The above does not apply in any to loose letters sent outside the mails. These will always be charged on arrival in Bangkong and probably the Manlia Office will adopt
the same course.
for the safe delivery of registered parkets; though any officer who may neglect blu duty on this point will be called to striat account. Sent in unregistered letters, valu- able articles are exposed to risk, and offer a temptation which ought not to be created; and the Department cannot in any way undertake the safe conveyance of packets. All inland or colonia! letters," therefore, which contain cola, and all faland letters which contain watches or Complaints are sometimes received of jewellery, even though they be posted extra charges on correspondence exchanged without registration, are treated as register between this Colony and Saigon, but it ised, and charged on delivery with a double believed it would be found in all once that registration fee of eightpence in addition to ordinary postage y and any such letters the leza, &c., had been sent loose.
which cannot be registered in time to be forwarded by the Mail for which they are posted are detained for the next despatch, Even if the letter do not contain any article of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very important, be registered.
A Foreign stamps on loose corre- spondence are obliterated in this Offies.
Indian Correspondence. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packets.
The Pre-payment of correspondents for the Straite, India, Ceylon, and Aden is com. pulsory by whatever opportunity it a forwarded,
Any publication fulfilling the conditions of the person for whom it is intended, the for Slam has been good enough to make
hereafter named can pass as a newspaper.:
The conditiona ate na folłowa pa
18. The publication must consist wholly of in groat part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other Burrent topics, with or without advertise
ments.
2ad. It must be published in numbers at intervale of not more than 31 days, and must be printed on a sheet or shesin atitched. A3rd. The full title and date of publication must be printed at the top of the first page, And the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every subacqueat page, and this regulation applies to Tables of Contents and Indices.
address of the sender, a trade mark or number, "and the price of the articles,
The rule which forbide the transmission tarough the Post of any article likely to injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Bozez, or the percon of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the Pattern Foat; atid a paskut 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 Patterne, and have been detained as unit for the Post, vit : Metal boxes, porce lain and China fruit, vegetables, bunches of fowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pina, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glasn 4th. A supplement must consist wholly bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various Or in great part of matter like that of a kinds, curry combs, copper and steel an newspaper, or of advertisements, printed groving plates, and confectionery of all on a sheet or sheets, or a piece or pieces of kinda."
Bush artioles as scissors, knives, Fazuis, paper, unstitched; or wholly or in part of engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machis tive of articles in the newspaper The very, metal tubing, pieces of thetal of supplement must in every case be published ore; provided that they be packed and #iif the mewapaper, and must have the guarded in so scoure a manner as to afford
¿Registration to Bangkok. Bor Britannic Majesty's Constil General
arrangements by means of which correspon dende cari be Registered to Bangkok, at the usual obarge of 8 conto.
the
Most countries to which Hongkong for warde Correspondence having Joined the General Postal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following roles be strictly observed,
1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, registered or unregistered, can be received jewels, precious articles, or anything that, sa a general rule, is liable to Customs duties,
9 The limits of weight allowed ato as follows
Booke and Papers-to British Offices,
hot to the Continent & Th Patterns—to British Offices, 5lba, if witha out intrinsic value to the Continent, 40, & on
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable ertiles, tinless the Soldiers and Sailors' Letters
quantity sent be so small as to make the Privaten in H. M. Army or Navy, Non-sample of no value. “ commissioned Officers, Army Schoolman ters (not superinterding or First Class) or Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters to the United Sindoor Byuthsagten by British Packet, for one penny, or við Brindisi by British Packet for three-penze. Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of correspondence exactly the same as Itoperial, The following articles cannot be sent Stampa,
dband by Post at ally Glass, Liquids, Gunpowder, Soldiers and Sailers letters are, however, Jatahes, Candles, Soup, Indigo, Dro-studs, charged as ordinary letters if they do not or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or conform to the following regulations ---
offensive or injurious to persons dealing. 1. Not to exceed half an ounce. No with them, OR double letters are allowed,
2. If from a Soldier of Sailor, his class or description must be stated in full on
*But sot. Warrant Oficers, viz. Assistant Enginest, Banner, Boatswain, or Carpenter,
PARCELS. The pubile is reminded that, there is no such thing as Parcel Post to Europe, de. Much trouble and disaps pointment is osuned by persistent attempte to send small valuable trifles through the Post. Fann, Curion, Articles of Dress,
The commission is as follows :-
Orders on the United Kingdom. Up to £2.... 18 conte
17..... $10.
17
.....
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72 21
2
Prince Amedeo, 2
Prince Louis Regent
Bifoman Rosebad
Rosie Welt Sacramento
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1
Southern Cross 1 Sontheak B
Splueway
2
Saru
Bell Sutant
Ferntower, e..
..A..
Clark
Fostlier Gitanilla Glamis
2
Golden Fleece
3. Hunlis Sydenham
Glamorgan, 5.8. 1 regd.Tamar
1
Great Admiral 1 Great
Harkaway Local Money Orders (including Straits Hawkesbury Settlements).
Up to $25....... 15 cents.
13
50.
.80
Taunton Toti Austrian
1 The Gorde
2.Three Brothers
2. Toksten
Tweed
Holen
Herat
Hiide Hopefal Hornet
3
Vidal
W. E. Gladstone 6
William Manson 1-
Wm. Phillips
5.-Lists of Money Order Offices in the Hntipar United Kingdom may be consulted at Hambbolds Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama,
6.-Names must be given in full (except when there is more than one Christian name) but the name of the Payee need not" be given if the order be crossed (as cheques are crossed). It can then be paid only through a Bsed to any Ban afterwards be Iron Duke 8 & 1g. Victor Emantel 2 'specially crossed to any Bank.
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7-No order can be paid till the Payes have signed it in the proper place. order can be transferred to another offea on payment of an additional commission, In case of loss of an order, necessity for stopping payment, or the like, application should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructions.
8.If the order be not presented within six months an additional "commission will be charged; if not within twelve months, the money will be forfeited. When the entertained. order is once paid no further claim can be
6. No order can be paid until the advice relative to it has been received.
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