a week.
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on this subject, the above Number should be quoted.
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CONDITIONS "AND" "REGULA
Class Passengers.
The RATES OF PASSAGE include Steward's Fees and Table, but not Wines for Second Bedding, Linen, and all requisite Cabin Furniture, are provided in the Steamers at the Company's expense.
The expense of transit through Egypt is paid by the Company, and included in the Passage-money, with the exception of Hotel Expenses, and also of extra Baggage, Wines, Spirits, Beer and Soda Water, all of which the Egyptian Transit Administration charge for separately.
BAGGAGE.-First Class Passengers in the Company's Steamers are allowed 3 cwt. of personal baggage, free of freight, and Children and Servants 1 cwt. each. A Passenger paying for a whole Cabin will be entitled to take in the Steamers, free of freight, 4 cwt.; and a married couple paying for reserved accommodation will
be entitled to take 9 cwt.
Passengers will please to take note, that the Company cannot engage to take any excess of Baggage over the above-mentioned quantities, unless shipped three days before the Steamer sails, and freight paid thereon.
All
All Baggage must be shipped on the day previous to sailing, except Carpet Rags or Hat Boxes. other Baggage received on board on the day of sailing will be considered as extra Baggage, and charged freight
as such.
The charge for conveyance of extra Baggage, should there be room in the Vessel, is at the rate of £1 per cwt. between England, Malta or Alexandria; £2 per cwt. between Suez and India; and £3 between Suez, the Straits and China.
Passengers will have to pay to the Egyptian Transit Administration in Egypt 148 per cwt. for conveyance of Baggage through to Suez, should it exceed, for First Class Passengers 3 cwt., and Children and Servants 14 cwt. No Package of Baggage must exceed 80 hs weight.
upon it.
The best dimensions for a Trunk or Portmanteau are:-length 3 ft., breadth 1 ft. 3 in., depth 1 ft. 2 in. Every package of Baggage should have the owner's name and place of destination distinctly painted
Baggage can be got up from the baggage-room during the passage, by application to the Captain, twice No Trunks, Boxes, or Portmanteaux allowed in the Saloon or Cabins.
Regulations on board the Steamers.--Passengers will be expected to comply with the regulations established on board the Steamers for the general comfort.
Allotment of Berths.-No Berth or Cablu is to be occupied by a Passenger without application to the Agent on shore, or to the Purser on board. It is to be understood that a Passenger occupying a Cabin of two or more Berths, on the departure of the Vessel (unless he shall have paid an additional sum for its exclusive occupation), is not to object to the vacant Berth or Berths being filled up at the intermediate Ports, if required.
Notice to Passengers respecting the conveyanes of Parcels. As the allowance of Baggage is on a liberal scale, and the freight of parcels moderate, it is hoped that Passengers will not attempt to convey in their Baggage, parcela or packages belonging to other persons, to the prejudice of the Company's interests.
Passengers taking parcels or articles of merchandise in their Baggage, will incur the risk of seizure by the Customs Authorities, and of detention for freight by the Company's Agents.
NOTICE.All parties are requested to take notice, that the Company do not hold themselves liable'for › detention or delay of Passengers arising from accident or from extraordinary or unavoidable circumstances, or from circumstances arising out of or connected with the employment of the Company's Vessels in Her Majesty's Mail Service, and that the Company do not hold themselves liable for damage to, or loss or detention of Passengers Baggage.
C. W. HOWELL, SECRETARY.
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General Post Office,
30th October, 1857.
leave to inform you
that
an application from
Mrr Chapman & the Postmaster of Hong Kong, requesting
to be allowed leave
absence to enable him to return
Europe for the benefit of.
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the Post Office
July 1855; and, on the
retirement of the Postmaster, MM. Hyland, in May last, he was appointed by
Sir John Rowing, with whom the Postmastor General had left the appointment, to the Office of Postmaster.
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