POST OFFICE NOTICES.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS.
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It is hereby notified for general information that nenceforward Letters containing coin posted in the United Kingdom addressed to Hongkong, or posted in Hongkong addresseu to the United Kingdom, on which the Fee for Registration has rot been paid will be compulsorily registered and charged on delivery with a double Registration Fee, and further, any Letters having the word "Registered" written upon them which may be posted without Registration, will be forwarded, charged in like Luanner 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.
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 Office at Shanghai and Yokohama, and that the same will be forwarded in closed Mails to London.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 27th November, 1867.
Circular.
The Undersigned solicits the Bankers and Mercantile Community to post all Let- ters, &c., as early as practicable, especially when sent in large numbers, as facility is given to the Post-Office in 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.