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MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
TAKING CARGO FOR
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India Iranian Gulf, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Australia, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL
STEAMERS
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M.. GOVERNMENT All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILING5
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 8, 1988:
POST OFFICE
Christmas and Now Year cards bearing not more than five written -words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the
rate for printed matter, ie, 5 cents pe 2 ounces, for all countries.
Hong Kong, China and Macao at 2 cents per 2 ounçës, Envelopes must not be closed.
CHRISTMAS PRINTED PAPER MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN VIA BUEZ The Christmas Printed Paper Mail (Christmas Cards and etc., in open envelopes) for Great Britain via Suez will be closed, in the General Post Of fice and Kowloon Central Post Office on Saturday, the 26th November per Rawalpindi as follows:-
Registered Mail Ordinary Mall
9.45 a.m. 10.80 a.m.
28th Novemb~8
26th November
This Mail is due in London on the 24th. December, 1988.
CHRISTMAS PARCEL MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN
The Christmas Parcel Mail for Great Britain will be closed in the Gen- oral Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office at Noon on Friday, the 11th November per S.S. "Ranpura" and is due to arrive at London on the 16th December, 1938.
The Public are kindly requested to post early,
Postal Service to Canton is temporarily suspended.
Ordinary letter mail only for West Kwangtung, Kwangai, Szechwan, Kweichow & Hunan will be accepted at senders' risk.
Air Mail for certain places previously served by the Chungking & Han- kow Air-lines, will be despatched via Hanoi and thence by air as services permit.
Letters and Postcards for Europe (except Great Britain and Eire) and South America are forwarded “via Siberia" if so superscribed.
INWARD MAILS
Parcels from Calcutta and Straits
Australia and Manila...
Santhia Taiping
Shanghai and Swatow,
Yochow
Amoy
Saigon
Van Heutsz Laos Bellerophon
.November 8.
November 8.
November 8.
November 8.
.November 8.
«November · 9.-
8.9.
Tons
From Hong Kong About
Destination
¡RANPURA
17,000
12th Nov.
Noon
•MIRZAPORE
§RAWALPINDI
**SOMALI.
6,000 17,000 6,000
17th Nov.
26th Nov. 3rd Dec.
*CANTON
15,500
10th Dec.
BCORFU
14,500
24th Dec.
**BANGALORE
6,000
81st Dec.
SCHITRAL
17,000
ECARTHAGE
14,500
**BHUTAN
6,000
7th Jan. 21st Jan. 28th Jan.
RAJPUTANA
17,000
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo Bombay & Karachi. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp.
Straits
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct
Service" London date, 3rd Nov.... Imperial Airways Plane November 9.
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways
Direct Service"-San Francisco date Pan-American Airways Plane 2nd November
and
Saigon Manila
Bombay, Marseilles and London. Bombay, Marseilles and London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Ant-
werp.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Ant- werp.
4th Feb. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Straits and Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) London, date 18th Oct. and London Parcels-London date, 6th Oct. Swatow
Straits and Manila Japan and Shanghai Japan and Shanghai Rabaul
Pan-American Airways Plane Nov. 9.
Pres. Doumer Emp. of Japan
.November 9.
.November 9.
m/v Canton
..November 9.
Hoihow
November 10.
November 11.
November 11.,
November 11.
.November 11.
Victoria Felix Roussel Ranpura Friderun
Air Mail by Imperial Airways Direct
Service"London date, 6th Nov. Imperial Airways Plane, November 12. Japan and Shanghai
.November, 13.
Tyndareus
• Cargo only.
Calls Casablanca. All vessels may call at Malta.
g Calls Tangler.
BRITISH INDIA
APCAR
SAILINGS.
TILAWA
10,000 191' Nov.
SANTHIA
8,000
TALAMBA. TALMA
10,000
17th Dec.
3rd Dec. Singapore, Port Swettenham,
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
10,000
31st Dec.
SIRDHANA
10,000
14th Jan.
do
Now is the time to visit Now is
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the` previous day. ^
For
Swatow.
Fort Bayard and Haiphong Batavia and Sourabaya Amoy and Chuanchow Japan
Per Thursday
Haiyang Jean Dupuis Tjibadak Szechuen Yuensang Wednesday
Australia & New Zealand Saigon, Mauritius (Papers only), He-
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down. Under" you will feel a new bʊ-, ing and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you:- including 25/- for your, pound.......
Frequent connection from Australia with, the following:--
The Canadian Australian Line to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand. Shipping. Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
via Panama Canal.
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
7,000 2nd Dec. 7,000 .81st Dec. 7,000 3rd Feb.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney,
Melbourne and Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI and JAPAN
7.a.m.
11th Nov. Shanghai & Japan..
9.a.m.
23rd Nov. 24th Nov.
26th Nov.
Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.. Shanghai & Japan. 4th Dec, Shanghai & Japan..
SANTHIA
8,000
10th Nov. | Japan.
CANTON
TALAMBA
·CORFU
15,500
*BANGALORE
∙10,000. 14.500 6,000
NANKIN
$7,000
TALMA
||10,000·
CHITRAL.
17,000
8,000:1 21st Dec. Japan.
•
Cargo only,
The Agentsi
SIRDHANA.
7th: Dec. Japan.
9th Dec. Shanghai & Japan.
For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks,
tc., apply to
union and Madagascar Shanghai and Japan
Fort Bayard and Haiphong.... Swabow and Tientsin
་
Tinhow
Pres. Doumer .... Esang
Date, and Time.
Nov. 8, 2 p.m. .Tues., Nov. 8, 2.00 p.m. Tues., Nov. 8, 2.30 p.m. Tues., Nov. 8, 8.30 p.m.. Tues., Nov. 8, 7.00 p.m.
Nov. 9, 1 p.m. Wed, Nov. 9, 1.30p.m.. Wed., Nov. 9, 10.30 a.m.
Nov. 9, 10.80 a.m Wed., Nov. 9, Noon. Airways Plane
Tai Seun Hong..
Parcels and Papers only for Calcutta Kutsang Airmail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, Pan-American
and U.S.A. by the “Pan-American Airways Direct Service”—due San Francisco, 17th Nov.
Wednesday, November
K.P.O.
Reg. Ord.,
Wed., Nov. 9, 5.00 p.m. Wed, Nov. 9, 6.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
Parcels only for Singapore & Penang Van Heutaz
Wed., Nov. 9, 5.00 pm. Wed., Nov. 9, 7.00 p.m.
Nov. 9, 5pm. -
* Superscribed correspondence only.
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To`AUSTRALIA.
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