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RATES OF POSTAGE.
addressed to the United Kingdom, on which the Fee for Registration has not been paid, will be compulsory registered and charged on delivery with a double Registra tion Fee; and further, any Letters having the word "Registered" written upon them which may be posted without Registration, will be forwarded, charged in like manner with a double Registration Fee.
In the event of a Letter being supposed to contain coin and being consequently thus treated, and proof being afterwards afforded that the Letter did not contain coin, the amount charged will be refunded.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 24th October, 1867.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Correspondence intended to be forwarded to the United Kingdom in the mails by the French Packets, may be posted at the British Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and that the same will be forwarded in closed Mails to London.
The rates of postage on such Correspondence, which must be paid in the Postage Stamps of this Colony, are the same as those which govern the Correspondence forwarded in the mails by the British Contract Packets.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hong'ong, 27th November, 1867.
CIRCULAR.
The undersigned solicits the Bankers and Mercantile community to post all Letters, &c, as early as practicable, especially when sent in large numbers, as facility is given to the Post Office in the discharge of its duties, and greater security afforded to the public by such a course; whereas great inconvenience, and frequently confusion, occurs, through the whole of the correspondence from many of the large Firms being sent to the Post-Office at the last moment, before closing the mails for Europe, by both the English and French Packets.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, under the authority of a Treasury Warrant dated the 1st May last, Superintending, or first class Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future, be entitled to the same privileges in regard to letters sent by or addressed to them on their own private affairs as are at present enjoyed by Commissioned officers in the Army; and all Army Schoolmistresses will be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all but the first class now are) to the same privileges, in regard to their letters, as are enjoyed by non-Commissioned officers and Private Soldiers.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,
General Post Office, Hongkong, 31st July, 1868.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
I.-On the 1st of October next, and thenceforward, Money Orders will be issued at this office, and at the agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama, on all the Money Order-offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange current for each mail, and charged with com- mission according to the following scale, viz :—
For sums not exceeding £2.....
Cents.
12
..24
£ 7.
.42
£10......
48
Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5..
£5
>>
£7
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