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AW RESPECTING CREWS SBJP. PED UPON AMERICAN VESSELS
IN FOREIGN PORTS. (N. Y. Shipping Register) Through the courtery of Captain Dun- can, United States Shipping Commis sioner at New York, we are enabled to,
very place before our readers some important correspondence relating to the laws respecting crews shipped upon American vessels in foreign porte, for a voyage to a port of the United States and return to the foreign port. Owing to want of space we are unable to-day to make any remarka upon this matter. COPY.
Bark" Alden Bessie," Portland, Oregon, To COL. J. 8. MODY, Consul, U. S. A.,
tion of the Department. Copies of it were sent to the Shipping Coninissioners at San Francisco and New York, and I now transmit for your information copies of their replies.
MAIL. THE CHINA
Visitors' Column.
We have instituted as an experiment a Vistrons' COLUMN, which we trust
П
nongkong Bates of Postage.
(Revised June 23, 1880)
papera may
.
Local Parost Pest.
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post between any of the Post Offices in Chion or Japan, as well as to Blacso, Pak hoi, Singapore, Penang,and Malora They must not exceed the folowing dimen- nor wei h more than tilbs. The postage siers, 2 feet long, 1 fort broad, 1 foot deep, will bo 20 cunts per lb., which will include Registration. The parcole may be wholly closed if they bear this special ondorse mout, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LETTEN, any parcel may be opened by direction of the Postmaster General.
· [No. 5822,-JULY 81, 1880.
PATTERNS. Some difficulty is experienced in obtaining a general understanding of what is a Pattern. It is bona fide sample of grods which the ander bas for sale, or of goods which he wishes to order. It is compatible with shewing what the goods to consist of the smallest possible quantity os and must have no intrusis rale.
To provide means of remitting small cums of money to or from this Colony and between the Forts of Obiba, the Post masters and agents are allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from foreign residents
Between Hongkong and Yokohams, how- over, in either direction, Money-Orders must be used.
and then southwards, without interrup* tion, throughout a space of between sixty and seventy degrees of latitude to the "Moluccas, where it branches off in
In the following Statements and Tables different directions both towards the will prove successful, and be found use the Rates are given in costs, and arn, for Your despatch presents the question east and north-west. The northern ex- whether crews may be shipped upon tremity of this volcanic region is the ful. To it will be relegated from time Lettere, per half race, for Books and
to time such items of information; lists, Patterns, per fica onnies, American vessels in Ilongkong, for a Peninsula of Alnaka, in about the fifty-ables and other intelligence as is con-
Newspapers over four ounces in weight aro charged as double, treble, &c., as the voyage to a port in the U. S. and return fifth degree of latitude. From there shered likely to prove valuable to perene may be, but such papers or pacitets or to sent at Hook Rato. Two to ilongkong for discharge; and you say the line is continued through the Aleu-
in connection with we have opened Newspapers must not be folded together as that the dischar, a xt Hongkong of a tian or Pax Islands, to Kamischetka, as passing through the City, and
SELECT HOTEL AND Business one, nor must anything whaterer be inserted crew so shipped, after a voyage to the In that archipelago eruptions are fre
Printed
2. The following cannot be transmitted: U. S., should be made without the quent; and a new isle rose in 1811 Ducerons, applications for enrolineut except bona fide Supplements. exaction of extra wages, and that you which, according to some reports into which we are now rearly to receive matter may, however, be enclosed, it the Parcos insuficiently packed or protected,
whole be paid at Book Rate. Price Cur-
or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, wou'd not hesitate to discharge a crew three thonsand feet fugl, und four miles
seus may be paid either as Newspapers cre) Glass, Liquids, Explosive substar cea, 80 shipped without requiring the pay round. Earthquakes of the most ter
Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, ler, Meat, ment of extra wegra,
rific description agitate and alter the
Fish, Giamo, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever bed of the sea and surface of the land
is dangerons to the Mais, or likely to be acme offensive or injurious in transit. throughout this tract. The line is con- tinued in the southern extremity of the
6. Parcels will as a general rule be for lal Facket. The Post Office reserves the mission, and of delaying delivery in case The sender of any Registered Article the Lumber of parels is such an to retard in
te accepted with regard to any parcel, but Commission of one per cent on all Stampe may accompany it with Retorn Hoceipt other correspondence. No responsibility suspicions. on paying an extra fee of 5 cents.
The limit of weight for Books and Contendera against any bat a very remote pro-
she system of Registration will secure the purchased, mercial Papers to Foreign Post Office is to 8 ounces, and must zo vze e these 4 The Patterns for such offices are tired bability of loss.
The greation is not a new one, and the ruling of the Department has been against the position which you have
takon.
List of Public Buildings. Government Isse, North of Public
Gardens.
Museum,-Prev. Cay Hall, Libury (8,000 volumes) and
Books
Commercial Papers siguify such papers ae, though Written by Hand, do not bear spondence, such as invoices, deeds, orpied the chutaetor of an actual or personal corro- Laic. &c. The charge on them is the same a packet containing any partially written
By reference to the enclosed peninsula of Kamtschatisa, where there | Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque as for booke, but, whatever this weight of warded by frivats Ship, not by Contract
are seven active volcanoes, which in communications from the Shipping Com- missioners at New York and Sau Fran- sime eruptions, have scattered ashes, te The Kurile clin cisco, you will perceive that the practice mense gistiness. of their offices is so in opposition to the of isles constitutes the prolongation of The require the range, where a trein of volennie views which you expres ments of the tare specific us to the antoine, nine of which are known ra
10 cruption, trends in shipment and discharge of ramen in have hee
retreat and of great interest.
The Stamps tendered for sale must not exceed 850 in vaine, must be perfectly
clean, in good condition, and in strips of he two, se no separate Stampa will be, purebased. They must be prescated per- sonally or accompanied by a note..
The Postmaster or agent may postpone gif his publlo funds in haud sro osse which appears doubtlul or Be is allowed to charge a
: The Clock Tower, Queri's Road Cen- paper, it will tot be charged less that 6 right of selecting th opportunity for trans-ot suficient, and he will refuse to purchase
u
tral, in a line with Folder's Wharf. General Post Office, Hongkong Club,! German C, Supreme Court, &e, wabin a stone's throw. Lasitano Club and Library, Shelley St.;
near the Public Gardens. Government Offices, the Secretariat, &c.,
rite Parale Ground,
John's Cathedral (Anglican), above Houtati Calhobe Catheden!, Wellington Union Church, Elgin Street.
Street.
St. Peter's Realen st hurch, West Point.
C+n1
dimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by
incl.es.
2
4. The public are cautioned not to con- Burope, da, which does not exist.
any
HOURS OF KLORING THE ENGLISH MAIL.
found these facilities with a Parcel Post to The following hours are observed in closing
•
Most countries to which Hongkong for wards Currespondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probable about to do so, it is necessary that the
HONG KONG, CHISA. Dear Sir:
Knowing you take much interest in the welfare and prosperity of the corn. mercial marine of our common country, I beg to bring to your notice a law or laws that work great hardship to our vessels, especially those trading Letseren our west count and China or East Indian porta The law or laws I refer to are ports of the U. 8, and as to the constitu- southerly direction. To these, and in those that prevent us who are trading Lion of the crews of American coels: the bed of the adjoining sea, alterations in those watera (as well as all other smiling from American to foreign ports, of loved have rešititel from earthquakes waters) from shipping men of those The question is not what the law should sure the middle at the last century. countries or any other, for a voyage to be, but what it is; not what it may The line is the centred to the soils port or ports of the United States and seem to be or menn, but what it has west in the great Island of Jesso, where back to the place of their shipment with been determined to mean by authority, there are active volcanic vents, as also out first discharging them after arriving competent and authorized to interpret it in Nipon, the principal of the Japan them there. It thereby brings thon namely, the Department of State and the mountains is very great; slight shocks Josepl's (R.C.) Charel, Garden/urope, most foreign possessions in As, following rules be strictly observed. in the United Statca and reshipping for the guidance of consular officers,group, where the rauber of barning If the Department of earthquakes being almost incessant. under the same ban that governs the Courts of the U. S. shipping of American seatic in Ameri- thould be called upon to frame a law and visiect ones experienced at distant can ports and compolling us when wo re- upon the soljet it might happen that it intervals. Between the Japanese and turn to the place of vicinity of their first would concur with the Consul at Hong Philippine islands, the communication shipment and where those meu wished kong as to the advisability of Hauction to be discharged and where they can by ing such shipping agreements as he Such, however, is not the no weans become a charge upon the proposes.
The question is simply as to the government of the United States, to pay case. them one, two or three months' extra pay construction to on placed upon lawe as the case may be, and also depriving already in existence us of the assistance of those men in discharging and loading our ships while in our home ports, and compelling us to hire other mon often at exorbitant prices to do our work, unless these men are honorable enough to fulfil the spirit of their contract which our Laws do not
of less than four months.
For convrudence of consideration the question which you submit may be First, as to toe divided us follows: right of masters to ship seamen upon American vessels is a foreign port for discharge in that or another foreign port after & cruise to the U. 8. Second, as to
:
Kond, near Kennedy Road. Temperance Hall, specially adapted for sci-faring men, Queen's Road East. Slors Home, West Point.
and Boat-house, & c.—Praya, beyanti Victoria Herreation Club-Bath-house the Cricket Ground, beside the City Hall
The Borracks and Naval and Military
Store Departments lie to the cast! ward, and cover a large area.
is preserved by severn! small insular E. E. A. aut China Telegraph Co., and the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Marine House, Queen's Road. rents, Sulphur Island, in the Lee ('hon ¦ archipelago, emits sal;dmenous vapour; i and Fora suffers greatly fun earth-Mesome Hai, Zetland Street, quakes in fazon, the most northern and largest of the Philippines, and three netve volcans: Militan also was in eruption in 1764. The line is then prolonged through Sanguir and the north-eastern extreunty of Celebes, ly Ternate and Tilore, to the Molucens, nud, amongst the rest, Smubara. Here a great transverse line may be said to run from east to west, it passes through the whole of Java, where a tinfy eight large volcanic mountains, many of¡ which continually discharge smoke and First. The general rule is that all sultureous vapaars. In the volcanoes American vessels sailing from a port of Sumatra, the same lineur arrange- the U. S for a foreign port oust ship aurat is preserved; but the fine ches crew in conformity with the require ments of law as set forth in Tide 1, III, of the Revised Statutes,
whether, upon conclusion of the voyage by the outry of the reserl at the foreign port of shipment or discharge, the crow could be discharged without extra wags
i
Hotels.
Stag Hotel, good accommodation for visitors at moderate rates, 110, Queen's Road Central.-J. Coox, Proprietor.
N. R. means No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union. The Union may be taken to comprise Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all
1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Chili, Kepublic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, for Postage if it contins gold or silver money, Brazil, Pors, Venezuela, The Argentino registered or a registered, can be received Honduras, Bermuda, Labuan, with all jewels, precions artioles, or anything that,
duties. Danish, French, Netherlands, Portuguese an a general rule, is liable to Gustoms and Spanish Colonisa
Countries Nor in the Union. --The chief countries not in the Union are the Aus tralasian Group.
Postage to Erin Countries. General Hales, by any route :-- Letter, Post Carda,
Registration, Newspapers,
10 cents per Anz.
B cents bach
10 conta.
2 cents each,
Books, Patterns and (2 cents per 2 oz.
Comm. Papora,
There is no charge on redirected carre
Postage to Non-Urdon Countries, "spondence within the Postal Union.
Hawaiian Kingdom - Letters, Registration, Межарарсть,
Books & Putterus,
Letters,
10
None,
*!
6*
30
Nono.
10
Stores, Books, &c. General Outfitter, Hosier, Tailor,
West Indies (Non Union)t, Boliviat gradually to the north-west in such a S. Datscoli, 4 und 47, Costa Rica, Guntemusta, Naw Granada,
as er is to point to the active volcano Queen's Itead, by special appointment Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay¶.
to .E. the Governor. in Barren Island, in the Bay of Bengul,
Chronometers, Watches. Jewellery, | Registration, in about the twelfth darree of arth
Books & Patt rus, latitale. In another direction the vol- Maps and Charts-t). FALCONER & Co., Newspapers,
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and panic range is prolonged through Borneo, Queen's Road Central. Celebes, Banda, und, New Guinea; and Travelling Requisites of all kinds, farther eastward in New-Britain, New, Books, &c.-LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. fiji, nia Torres Straits, Leitors, 12; Ha Ireland, and various parts of the Poly-!
American and English Stores, Books,gistration, lu; Newspapers, 2; Books and gistration, 10; Nowapapera, 2; Books and nestan arcipelago. The Pacific Oceau, and specially selected Cigars.-MAC-Patterns, 4: Via Gate, Lett re, 25; Re- indeed, seems, in equatorial latitudes, ta Ewes, FICKEL & CO. be one vast theatra of igneons action;
Patterns, 4.
Natal, the,Cape, St. Helena, and Aucon
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sont be so small an to make the sample of no value.
9. The limits of weight allowed are as follows:-
Books and Papers-to British Oftos.
5 lbs. to the Continent, &c., 4 lbs. J'atterns to British Officos Blbs. If with- out intrinsic value; to the Continent, 4o., 8 oz.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Letter. The Post Office is not legally responsible for the safe delivery of Registered corres pondence, but bongaforth it will be pre- pared to make good the contents of auch correspondenso lost while passing through the Pust, to the extent of $10, in certain cases, provided :-
1. That the sender duly observed all the conditions of Registration require.
2. That the letter was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong envelope,
Mails, dc, by the British Contract Packet- Day of Departure,—
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J
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F.M.-Money Order Office closes. P.M.-Hogistry of Letters ceases.
Pasting of all printed matter and patterns caasen,
P.X.-Mails
fails closed, except for Late Letters.
4.10 F.-Letters may be posted with
Late Fee of 10 cent until
4.30 F.-when the Fort Coe closes
entirely.
4.40 .Late Letters may be posted: on board the packet with Late Fes of 10 cents until time of doparture.
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondance, July 30, 1880.
1
Acbing, Miss Adshead, E. Anderson Roht.J. 1 Angan Anik, L. Atan Andres Aibaide Dom. ingos, R. Aller
Kavanagh, M. Kuhn M.
Kwong Tai
Kwong Wing Hi i
Lamberti
Lets Pap.
1
Lata. Pay.
Jackson, Q. P. Jonor, John
1 1
Katmak, M. H. 1
1 regd.
1 ragil
1
Il Sang & Co.
1
Baird, Thos.
1
Lommon Adolph Bragd.
Lum Gay.
1
Luz Filomena, H.1
1
MacHaffle
12
1
David
Abk
1
Mailer, Capt.
1
1
Mitchell, W.
(Seaman) Barnermati, C. J.B Baker, Mr. C. Bates, Cha. P. Boddy, E. 3. That application was made to the Bulao, W. Postmaster General of Hongkong im Bracewell, C. c. 1 medistely the loss was discovered, the Brooks, W. T. 1 such application unless it also is lost. envelope being invariably forwarded with Bryant, C. J.
That the Postmaster General is satis- Ged that the loss occurred whilst the corros pondence was in the custody of the British Postal administration in China, that it was
Membert Chr. E.
Nottage, Chr. G. 1
Page, Capt.1 Pike, Capt. John
Folland, E. H. 1
(Q.C.)
i
Burrows, Mrs. B.1 Campbel, A.
Scots Guards Carvalho
Jongm. A Cauza, F. B.
1
1
2
not
Regu Sebastino
end ita inmannerable arelnpelagǝs, such prints, c,, choice Tobacco and Ligure,sion, vio Aden, Loitera, 25; Registration, not caused by any fault on the part of the Cheong Loong 1
American Newspapers and cheap Ro-
-MOORE'S VARIETY STORE, Queen's Road.
42,
ablige them to du. This gives to foreign ships that do employ those men great advantage over our own ships. They come to our porta and load at an expense of from $300 to $500, while we are compelled to pay for loading the saine size ships with the same kind of cargo from $900 to $1500. I myself once loaded the ship I am now in with a crew of mon that did not leave, her
The entry of an American vessel from when she arrived in her loading port for less than $400, while at another time in a foreign port in a port in the U. S., a less expensive port, by hiring outside with intent to continue bar voyage thepco labor, it cost me $1250, making a dif- to another foreign port, brings her with in the operation of the law regulating ference of more than $850, for a voyago constitution of crews of American In your official capacity as consul of vessels engaged in the foreign trade, and the United States you could bring this her crew must be shipped or reshipped before the Department at Washington in accordance with the requirements of and thereby have our laws governing the that law.
The fact that she may retain the indi- shipping and discharge of our scamen both in domostic and foreign ports so
vidual zoaren with whom she entered changed, that we should be ubic to keep the port; that she may sail with them those men shipped in foreign ports while for the foreign part in which, under spe- cial agreement, they were to be discharg in our boue porta without did; and at such discharge was to be them and reshipping them and discharge without extra wages, iu no way witrea them on their return home to their place the question of the application of the law of the volcanic constitution of the and Sportstima's Requisites of all descrip- of shipment without any extra pay, would thereby confer a great benefit of shipment and discharge to the cast The Law operates of its own freo force upon American shipowao.
Having traded between our West Coast and effect, and agreements between mas- and China about ten years, my attention tors and seamen me to be cusutrund in has been drawn to the above facts and its light. Agreements in conflict with the disadvantage our ships labor under the law fat, because the law does not
permit their enforcement. when compared with foreign ships,
Hoping you will excuse me for troubl- ing you in this matter,
Tremado, your most obedient servant,
A. NOYES, Con. Bark" Alden Bossie,
(No 60).
Hon JOAN HAY,
Bir:
You
"
U.S. Consulate,
HORGKONG, Jan 10, 1800.
Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, DC.
For these reasons the form of shipment which you propose is believed to be in conflict with the law as it exists, and as it has been determined by the Depart ment and Courla.
as the New Hebrides, Friendly Island, and the Georgian Isles, are all composed
Watches, Jewellery, Charts, Binocu- either of curul la limestones, or vol-
| Pencil cases, &c.-Jans NOBLE, agent ensic rck with active vents here andar, Optical Instrumente, Mordan's there interspersed. The abundant pro-
| For Negretti & Zawlra. duction of carbonate of linre, iu solution,
Gus, Rifles, Pistols, Ammunition, would uloge raise a strong presumption
tions-W tracts, even if there were not more positive prints of ignevus agency.
Several disastrues earthquakes frive tuppened within the last huiufred years ors, in this line. In Japan, a fightful earthquake centred in August 1, 1783, swell wing up many towns, and succeed. ea by an eruption from the velcano ufj Asania-yama, deur the town of Komore. In Java 1286, un caerhquake was felt at intervals, for the period of four months, in the neighbourhood of Batur; a village
Suar & Co, Gun- atakers, Eastern House of Bencoustick 3 ronde.
Chair and boat Hire.
trVALISED PAKIET or Fanes-ron-Übait", CHATK BEARERS, and Boara,
IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
Chairs and Ordinary Pullaway Boats.
was buried in the ground with thirty-Half hour,...10 cts. Hour,20 cte, might cits inhabitants.
lu 1800, a
Turco hvars...) eta, Six hours,....70ots. Day (from 6 to 6), One Dollar.
TO VICTORIA PEAR Single Trip.
Second,Siave the passage of the act of June 28, 1864, all seams shipped upon an American vessel in a part of the peak, rose from the sea among the Alen- U. S., mo bold to be American soknem ; tian Islands, North of Kamtschatka. and all laws in force at that time applic. In 1816, a violent eruption and earth- able to seatcn of the U. S., by opera quake occurred in the mountain Tum. tion of the said act, are held to have been bore, in the Island of Sumbawa. The Four Cooliea, extended to American staveu as above town of Torhero was submerged 18 feet Three Condies,
below the sea.
The area over which Two Coulton, tremulous poises and other volcanic effects extended was one thousand Eng. lish miles in circumference.
defined,
This meio etatemont auawers the sc- Icond division of your question.
EARTH-EATING
or semi-civilised Many barbarous tribes are addicted to the custom of earth-
Four Cooles...
$1.00
0.85
0.70
...$1.50 1.20
... 1.00
Keturn (direct or by Pok-foo-tum).
Three Coolies, ** Two Coolies,...
TO VICTORIA GAP (TO LEVEL OF UMBRELLA
2.)
Single Trip.
$0.00
0.50
0,40
Four Cooties, Three Coolies, Two Coolies, ...
Beturn (direct or by Pok fuo-lum).
...$1.00 Four Coolies, Three Coulies, ... Two Coulics,
I enclose a letter addressed to me by Capt. Noyes, of the bark "Alden Bessie," on the subject of shipping senden.
Seamen shipped in the U. S. on an know no law of the United States pro- hibititg a consul from shipping a crew to American vessel sailing to foreign ports must be returned to the U. S., or in de- navigate a ship to a house port and thence to return and be disubarged at fault thereof the master of the vessel the part of shipment, yet I am informed must suffer the penalty of his bond con- that if I wore to skip a crew to go to the ditioned for their return, unless he can eating, and such a habit exists in some United States and return to be discharge show that they have been duly discharg parts of the northern island of Japan. The origin of this custom has been na ed here, that the shipping commissionere ed in a foreign port or have deserted or would ignore the stipulations of the have died during the voyage.
The conditions requiring the discharge cribed to various causes, but it seems articles and insist on discharging the
most probable that, in the majority of crew and then reshipping them when of seamen with extra wagos have been they would be required to stipulate to heretofore ro fully set forth in instrue ages, the habit has been formed in times return to the United States to bo dis- tions addressed to myself, that it is not of great scarcity, when the people ato tho
For every hour or part of an hour above charged. I can find no authority of law deemed to be necessary to discuss this earth in order to partially diste..the for such action on the part of the ship branch of the business further. It is stomach and so in a measure allay the
custom became a habitual disease. In an adsitional payment of 5 cents. ping commissioners and it certainly can thought to be sufficient to say, limited pangs of hunger, and that from this the three hours, each Cookie will be entitled to zot bo justified on grounds of public by the conditions of law and regulations, no case, yet examined, of an earth so Day Trip Peak.$0 75 cach Opolic,
scamen shipped upon an American vessel policy,
zutriment been discovered. In Java & There are a good many American sail in a part of the U. S, whon disebarged used, has any appreciable amount of resi | (12hours) } Gap,......... $0,60 each Coolie. ing vessels as well as the Pacific Mail in a foreign port, must be discharged fat olay is used; in Lepland a similar Steamship Co. engaged in the commorce with extra wager.
The subordinate issue in your despatch earth containing mica made into a kind United States. It is a great hardship respecting the question of foes upon the of bread; in the south of Persia a discharge and reshipment of seamen at carbonato of magnesium and calcium. Some negro tribes and tribes of American
of China and the Pacific Coast of the
to require these vessels first to incur the San Francisco, is sufficiently met by the Indians are also earth-eaters. Mr G. G. expenses of shipping their crews abroad and then discharging thear at home and Shipping Commissioner at that port. again reshipping them for a return his letter you are therefore referred.
voyage. The crews are mostly composed
of Chinese, Japanese and Manila, men, yet when they reship in the United
To Love of New York has recently commu nicated to the Chemical News an analysla I am, sir, your ob't serv't,
of a sample of earth obtained from a bed JOHN HAT,
several feet in thickness, in a small Acting Secretary.
valley at Tsi-etonai on the north coast of Yezo and used as food (7) by the Ainos States, they are required to contract to return them. If they are discharged
EARTHQUAKES.
This earth is of a light grey colour and when they get home according to this
"A very large portion of Asia," says very Gino in structure; it is made into practice the consula require extra wages Sir Charles Lyell, inhabited by the soup, with lily roots and water, by the from the ship.
earliest nations whose traditions have Ainos. It is essentially a play, similar
0.85
0.70
The Ketur. Faro embraces a trip of cat
more than three hoora
1st
Licensed Bearers (zach),
Hour, Half day,
Day,
454
... 10 cunts. 35 cents. ...60 centa.
BOAT AND COOLIEM UN E.
BOAT.
Cinas Cargo Bent of 8 or 908.
picula, per Day, Class Cargo Best of 8 or 900
pitals, per Load, ... 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600
picula, por Day, and Class Cargo bost of 600
picule, per Load, ....
*
Jen
**
1+4
10; Newspapore, 3; Books and Patterns, 5.
A small extra charge is unde on delivery. There is Registration Lo British W. Ladis Jelands, 10 cents. To the Babaraas nod ayti, The San Francise route is available.
Registration via Sua Fransisco, 10 cents. Cannot be sent via San Francisco.
(d), and the Philip
pines
(d)..
LOCAL POSTAGE.
direction...... China), Tonqulo Japan, Siam, Cochin kour, Macao, Chinx
Batmcon any other two (through a British of the following: ftica) viz.: Hoog.
Batwolacao, in either
1 Hongkong, Canton,
10
2
2.
20
28
ર
each.
Letters
Regis. Post per oz. trati.ardpapers. Pait ras, including News and per l
Books
Parcels,
cents.
Gerta.
cent.
cents.
cents,
per 2 oz. |Registry,
canta.
(d) No Parcel Post
Local Deburry.
1. All correspondenca posted before 5 p.. on any week day for aldresses in Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the delivery should be retarded by the Contract. Moila.
2. Invitations, &, can generally be delivered within Victoria at the private houses of the addressees rather than at
of planen business, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the Bander, otherwise all oorrespondence is invariably delivered at $8.40 the nearest place of business.
8rd Class Cargo Host or Hs-hau Boat of 800
pitals, per Day, ... *
sender, by destruction by firo, or shipwreck, Bo Co.
Price Mouse.
M. E.
Rachel Madmo. 1
Remedios, M. C. I
nor by the disho valy or negligence of any Chie Yau Moek 2 regd.Riobard, Mr G. 1 person not in the employinent of the Chong Sing Hongkong Post Office.
5. No compensation can be paid for mere damage to fragile articles such as portraita, watches, handsomely bound books, de, which reach their destination, although in a broken or deteriorated condition.
Robertson, James 2
San A kong 1 regd.
1
Sayne, Morar.
*
Scott, W. B.
1
Bhan Wan Chong 1 regd. Shew Kee
1
Smith Farrary
1
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Song Wing Sking 1
Souza, 8. de
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Steere, J. B.
1 kk.
Steggel, Joho
1 regd.
Tan Hong Hin 1
Cohen, 8. Constable, G. Coela, A. P. Costa, Remenia 1 Cotwall, M. M. 1 Coulson, Capt. 1 Crose, Davenport, C. A.1 Dower, John 1 Dubain Malto.
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Danlop & Co.
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Honey Order Regulations. 1.-Money Orders are exchanged with the United Kingdom, Now South Wales, Mesars Queensland, South Australia and Port Fab, Ferdinand" Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Western Fleming J. Gibson 1 Australia, and (except at Shanghai) with Frederie & Co.
Hongkong also Frinder, A. W. 1 the Japanese Empire. issues orders on Shanghal, and vice versu.
2-Small same may be remitted between the other Forts by means of Postage Stamps, subject to a charge of one por cant. for cashing them.
Gia Triệu Gilmour, Allan Gomes, J, R.
Xavier
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1
1
Tip, I. A
1 Tjong Hian
Toug San Wo
Ung Sang Lang - roga. Veneck (Professor) 1
Yotch, AL B.
6 Wan Sing
3
1 regd.
Whiteley, Fred. 2
Williams, O. E. 1
Goo War 1 rega, Wing Chong Gregg, Dr.
Loung Hang Long
Wool-Nam-Sew 1 Harrison, Chs. 1 card Wan Kum Trung 1
2 Hartley, Jolm Haywood Jas. W.1 Holst, C.
Xavier, F. B.
Zimmetriatha
1 rogd. Gear.
Detained for Postage: Dias Josa, B. D. Costa Hion 25 cents to pay. Wilkinson, E. (A. E. Corps) 1 cont
Barbados.
3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to residents at the Amaller Ports in this way, As application for an order* is filled up, and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest fasning office. The application must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) lo cheque, postage stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a little toargin should be left for variations of exchange. The Postmaster issues the order, sends it on in the envelope, and returns the change, if any, by first oppor tanity, with a receipt for the latter, if it were to be registered, as it always should Adsl be. Care should be taken to send these Agnes Mur applications in time, as the Money Order Albany, s.. Offices olore some hours before the depar- Albion, ..
Alex Newton tures of the maile,
Alma 4. No order must exceed £10, or $50. Annie Smith or include any fraction of a penny, nor will Brodick Bay more than two such orders be issued to the Catalina
For Merchant Ships:
Lata. Pap
same person, in favour of the same payee, Cholmsford
by the same mail. Orders will be drawn Chipewan
at the current rate of the dayt and paid at Clara Babayan
1 Java, 6.3.
J. E. Brigus
Jerfaicco
Kolga
1. 1
Lothair Magdale
1.
2
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Malabar...
Matchless
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Bèrishinar, S.1.
21 Nonparell
11 regd:Nozfolk, na.
2 Old Bridge
1
Dial
Prince Amadeo
1 Queen Mary 24
1 B. Robinson
Baphom
Rioca Genova 1 Rio Lage
Badobris
· San Jurgnia.../
| regð.
the rate of the day when the advies arrived. Connert
The commission in as follows --
Conrad
Cora
Orders on the United Kingdom. Up to £2... 18 cents.
Coren
Corer
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Ellen
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£7............. 54
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Strathearn
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Wachurstie
West Glen
Wi. Dickinson s.d. 1.
Local and Intercolonial Orders..
Up to $25 or £5.25 cents.:
850 or £10....60 vjərin 5.--Liste of Money Order Offices in the Frank Pendleton 1 United Kingdom may be consulted at Hexel Helms Hongkong and Shanglini,
Hermine
6.-Names must be given in full (except Highlander
more than one Ohristian H. W. Dadley 8. Boxholders who desire to send Ciren. when there
but the name of the Payee need not Indis a 2.00 tars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, be given if the order be crossed (ur cheques James Chardiner. 1
&o, all of the same sonight, to address fo
or the Ports of China are crossed) It can then be paid only 2.60 Hongkong, Bangkok,
through a Bank, and may afterwards be and Japan, may deliver them to the Festapscially crossed to any Bank.
160
Office unstamped, the postage being then obarged to the sender's account. Each batch must consist of at least ten,
1,01
and
Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kan Boat of 300 pivals, Half Day,
to
the same
rd Cage Cargo Best or Ha-kaa Boat of 800
picula, por Load,...
Bumpant.
I shall not hesitate, if any ship-master come down to us, has always been to that used by the Javanese but richer asks it, to ship a crew to go to a port or subject to tremendous earthquakes." in silica; the paraple examined contained The great geologist considered them as but a small amount of organic matter, originating from the same sources as which consisted of fragments of leaves volcanic phenomena; the regions con- possessing an aromatio odour and por or Fallaway Boats, per Day vulsed by violent earthquakes including hans.intentionally mixed with the earth within them the site of all the active on that account. It is said that in some volcanoes, Manila is situated in the parts of Japan a red bole is made into line of a theatre of volcanic action on cakes and eaten by the women with the|ments. the grandest scale, Sir Charles Boys idea and wish of giving themselves
ports of the United States to be dis. charged either at Hongkong or any other port on the Chinese coast; 1 would dis charge a crew shipped on such articles without extra wagen
I have the honor to be, your obt, serv.,
Jxo. §. Możny, U. 6, Consul.
(No. 58),
PREVE
.
Department of State,
WASHINGTON, May 13, 1880,
Join S. Mossy, Esq.,
Siri
Consul of the United States, Hongkong.
Your despatch No. 60, dated Jan. 10 1860, has received the careful considera.
elegant and slender forma. It is also
441
£repor Smarion
Valpariso
1 ragd, Wan, H. Comnar i regd,
Books, etc. without Covers. Allgemelaszaitong.
7-No order can be paid till the Payos Christian Berald.
has signed it in the proper plade, AnCosmos.
Boxholders may also send Patterns order can be transferred to another offos Daily Review,
places in the same way. En on payment of an additional commission 51.velopes containing Patterns may be wholly in case of loss of an order, necessity for Elmshorner Nachrichten,
closed if the nature of the contents be bratstopping payment, or the like, application press exhibited or stated to the Postmaster should be made to the nearest Money Forlar Hemail.
Geschichte und Entwickelung., $1.00 General, as be may consider necessary, and. Order Office for instructions.p
8.If the order be not presented within Illustrated, L. N, 21 approved by him. Printed Circulars may 10 us inserted in such Pattern Prokem aix months as additional commission will ran
be charged if not within twelve months; Iron Trade Jormati the money will be forfeited. When the Landelablats, order is once paid no further claim can be Fat entertained.
Uns Hour, Half-an-goat, After û Mineral 10 dantu orŠEMU Z
TREET COOLIES,
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PARCELS The publie is
is reminded That Nothing in this Fesla prevents privats agret there is no such thing as Parcel Post
to Europe, do Much trouble sud disap potatment are caused by persistent attempla to send smail valuable trifles through the Post. Fans, Carlos Articles of Drass, Fancy Work, and similar presents are con tinually being refused, the sauders having often apunt more in Postage than would have paid the freight by a camer. rofund can be made, on such parcels of the Nothing is the obora Scale to most private. value of Stamp oblitora tad before the agrecimento,
nature of the contents was discovered,
85 cents.
of it
Volcanic region from the Aleutian rumoured that among the opposite 063, Scale of Hire for Street Cöoller. Talce to the Moluccas. On an equal, not exclusively natives of the land a One Day** if not a still grander scale, is another similar diseased habit arising from the Half Day... continuous line of volcanic action, which opposite wish, to get fat, is not unknown. Three Hours,..
One Hour,.AK commencos, on the north, with the An accurate analysis of this dirt has not Half Hout,***** Aleutian Isles in Russian Americo, and yet been made, but its permanent nutri extends, first in an easterly direction for tive proporties appear to be small- nearly two hundred geographical miles, Japan Gazelle.
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York Herald
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Local
Orders as Ginaghal are drawn at 2 por
cant. promini in ill camos. “A red dol
la rate for drawing on the United King-
dom is in foros at Shanghai,
Printed and published by Gzo. MURRAY
- Bàn, at the Chisa Mail Office, Nov 2'
Wyndham Street, Hongkong,