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THE CIHNA REVIEW,
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We have instituted as an experiment VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust THE widely-usprosed regret at the will prove successful, and be found use
continuance of Notes & Queries on China and Japan, has induced the publish ful. To it will be relegated from time similar in object and style, but alightly tables and other intelligence as is cons ors of this journal to issue a publication to time such items of information, lists, modified in certain details sidered likely to prove valuable to per- CHINA REVIEW, or Notes and sobe passing through the City, and Queries on the Far East, is issued at in in connection with we have opened tervals of two months, each number con taining about 60 octavo. pages, cecasionallya SaLzor HOTEL AND BUSINESS illustrated with lithographs, photographia, DIRECTORY, applications for enrolment donard, and to give perqa pay, thed into which we are now ready to receive,
and the circulation
justify,
Bach
List of Public Buildings. Government House, North of Public
Gardens. City Hall, Library (8,000 volumes) and
Museum, Free.
Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque
retreat and of great interest..
Hongkong Rates of Postage.
(Hevised March 1, 1880.)
two ounces.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Local Parcel Post
bat
smitted
3. The following cannot be area, insuficiently packed or protested, or liable to be crushed (as do.) Glass, Liquids, Explosive substances, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, lo, Meat
Geme,
tables, r
whatever Fruit, to this
or likely to be
No. 6263-MAX 24, 1880.
Merchant Vessels in Hongkong. Harbour.
of late Arrivals and Departures
To facilitate suding the position of soy yoke
Green Island Vessels near the Hongkong shore
Shipping or midway between sach shore are war
Section
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Pont between any of the Post Uffices in Chios. for Japally as well as to Macan, Pak In the following Statements and Tables boi, Singapore, Perang, and Malaoca. the Rates are given in dents, and are, for They must not exoged the following inter- Lestars, per half mice, for Books and site, 2 feet long, 1 fout brond, I foot deep, nor weih mero than 5lbs. The postage are charged sa double, treble, e, as the Registration. The parcels may be wholly Patterna, per
Now papers over four oLDer in weight will be 20joonts per lb., which will include case may be, but such papers or packets or closed if they bear this special endoèse- Newspapers must not be folded together as any parrel may he papers may be sent at look at my red may
CONTAINING Kction of one, nor minet anything chatever be inserted the Postmaster General oxcept boxa do Supplements. Printed abiertowy, Lowever, he fancloud, if the paid at Book Bato. Prices Car- rent may be paid either as Newspaporn or
such Commercial Papors signify , though Written by Hand, do not bear in the character of an actual or personal corre come offensive or injurious in transit.
8. Parcels will as a general rule be for- spondenes, such as invoices, deeds, copied.
Contract music, dra. The charge on them is the same warded by Private Ship, not by is for books, but, whatever the weight of Mail Park. The Post Office reserves the a packet containing any partially written right of selecting th opportunity for trans- the number of parcela is such as to retard The sendar · of any Registered Article other currapordence. No responsibility may accompany it with a Botura Receipt is accepted with regard to any parcel, but the system of Registration will secure the on paying an extra feu of bonits.
The limit of weight for Books and Com-sendurs against any but a very remote pro- mrcial Papers to Foruige Post Offices in bability of loes.
4. The public are cautioned not to dot found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Bellona. Europe, &c, which does not exist..
Books
PaperEngerous to t
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Literature History, Religion, toy & The Clock Tower, Queen's Road Cen-paper, it will not be charged less than 5 mission, and of delaying dolivery in case
Natural
abcription is fixed at $6.50 postage The paid, per annum, payable by non-residents in Bangkong half-yearly in adeanne.
The publication includes papers original and selected upon the Arts and Solences, Ethnology, Folklore, Geography, Bistory, Mythology, Manners and Cué- of China, Japsu, Mongolia,
the Tibet, Eastern Archipelago and the War East generally. A more detailed list of subjects upon which contributions are especially invited is Lacorporated Original contributions in Chineso, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Por tuguese are admissible, Endeavoure are made to present a resumé in each number of the contents of the most recent works bearing on Chinese matters. Great attention is also paid to the Review department.
with each number,
Notes and Replies are classified toge. as "Notes" (hoad references being ther given, when furnished, to previous Notos or Queries), as are also those queries which though asking for information, furnish now or anpublished details concerning the mat ter in hand. It is desirable to make the Quarles proper a brief and as much to the point as possiblə.
The China Berior for July and August, 1875, is at band.
It says that forty-two essays were rent in to compete for the best paper on the advantages of Christianity for the development of a Stato. All our learn- ed societies should subscribe to this scholarly
and enterprising Reviere It is a sixty
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Hotels.
repertory of what woho The Barracks and Naval and Military
About
China The
Store Departments lie to the east Poetry in this volume is the Review, Ad-
word, and cover a large area. Hongkong-Northern Christian Advocate (0.8.)
Trutner's Oriental Record contains the fol. of ibb China Kavies This lowing notice In the title of a punched as from Hong": the first nombor of which has lately. kang, It has been sat on foot an in
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Note and Queries of China and Japan, the
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Catalina make good the contents of such Catalin parad correspondence loat while passing through Centennial
in cortin the extent of $10, an
Charito Poat, to the
provided!- essay
1. That the Conditions sonder daly observed all the i China.
of Registration require. That the loiter was securely
envelope.
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Stores, Books, &c, Publishers of the Largest Collection of which useful serial a year or
West ladics (Non Union)t, Bolivie, has of Views in the Empire, and genre: beeri
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3 That, application was maile to the Georgina..... "Dia Torres Straits, Letters, 12'; Ra- Maps und Charts.-G. FALCONER & Co., gitation, Vat calls, Letters, 20 Romediately the luas was discovered, the James S. Stone...
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envelope being Queen's Road Central.
forwarded with Jab gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and envel
invariably
in lost. it also such application unless it Patieros, 4.
the Postmaster General is satis Llewellyn J. Moreo
the corres Nautilus.... fed that the loss occurred whilst the ponderos was in the custody of the British Palestine Postal administration in
a in China, that it wa not paused
on the by
PIZATO the any fault
part of sender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, Spartan nor by the disho esty or negligence of ang Spirit of the Age person not in the employment of the Twilight Hongkong Post Office.
number now before us, is intended to occupy & poultion," & regarda Chins and the neighbouring countries, somewhat similar to that which has been filled in India by the Caleutia Review. The great degree of at tention that has been bestowed of late years upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiquities and social developmost to say
of
istic studies, has led to the accumulation of importans cores of informe ation
rendering some such channel of
pub
Tinity
as is now provided extremely desir aulo; and contributions of much interest may fairly be looked for from the members of the foreign consular services, the Chinese Customs
corps, and the missionary among whom a high degree of scholarship is now atiduously cultivated, and who are severally represented in the first number of the Review by papers highly creditable to their respective authors. In a paper on Dr. Legge's She King, by the Rev. E. 3.
to which the place of Kitol, honear is deservedly, given, an excellent Summary is presented of the chronological problems and arguments involved in con., nexion with this important work. Bote translations from Chinese novels and plays are marked by both accuracy and freakiness of style ; and an account of the career of the Chinese
by y Mr. E. C. Bowra,
century, theo of the eleventh
la not only historically
y valuable, but is also
distinguished by its literary grade. Beside
notices of
of new books relating to China
the East, which will be a upoful feature
涟
the Rette, carried out with punctuality we are glad to notice that
and
**Notes and Queries" are destined to
And
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place
In ita pages
also. It is to be hoped
ed that this opening for contributions Chinese anbject may evoke a
a similar peal to that which was degree of
during
the lifetime of its prede the field, and that the China Review niny receive the support necoasary to insure Ita continuance. The publication is intend. ed to appear every two months, and will forma a substantial octavo magazine.
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New York
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To-morrow daylight 2loon Dock
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