for Sale.
FOR SALE.
EX SCAWFELL.”
ASS'S ALE in kilderkins,
BASS
Ban's ALE . bottles, quarts.
Apply to
4. DUBOST & Co.
Hongkong, June-19, 1868.
FOR SALE.
Insurances
NOTICE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Insurances.
LONDON ASSURANCE CORPO. RATION.
HE following rates will in future bo
Insurances.
IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY. RasvorioN IN THE RATES OF PREMIUM.
Insurances.
NOTIOR.
HE Undersigned having received extend- ed limits from TIID ROYAL INSUR-
NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY charged for Short Period Insurances: TINTIL further notice the following An, ANCE COMPANY, are now authorised to
FROM and after this date the following
Ratos will be charged for Shart Period Insurances-
19jul
Not exceeding one
inonth,
of the Annual Rate.
Be" ESTAFETTE" and other arrivals,
ENUINE AFH QIN în red cases, lõ
equares
Genuine AVR GIN, in white bottles. Paim-tres Bread GIN, in 16 squares. Datch CURACOA, in stone bottles.
At LAMMERT, ATKINSON & Co. Hongkong, May 22, 1868.
FOR SALE.
·ELFUSIYAMA," |HAMPAGNÉ CABINET,
CHAMPAGN
BOUZY, MOUSSEUX, CARTE BLANCHE in qts. $18 per dozen in pta. $19 per case; in half-pts. 48. bottles each case at $20 per caso."
Apply to
G. DUBOST & Co. Hongkong, June 29, 1868,
jul29j
Docks.
THE UNION DOOK COMPANY OF HONGKONG & WHAMPOA, LIMITED
UE Company respectfully beg to call the attention of Ship Owners, Consigues and Masters of Vesseln to their establish- ments at Whampoa and Hongkong, which offer every facility for the docking and re- paire of Vessels of all classes.
good
Above one month and not exceeding
3 months,m Above 3 months
and not exceed- · ing 6 months,....
Above 6 months..... the full annual rate. TURNER & Ca;,
Agents.
Hongkong, April 13, 1868,
HÓNGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. CAPITAL $2,000,000, IN 2,000 SHARES OF $1,000 XADE.
$100 per Share to be paid on Allotment, and $100 six months after Allotment.
NOTICE:
ITH reference to the following Reso
lutions passed at a Meeting of the Shareluiders of the Hongkong Fire Insur ance Company held on the 8th instant, ap plications for Shares in the Hongkong Fire Insurança Company, Limited will be re- ceived by the General Managers, the form of application to be as follows.
...
GENTLEMEN,
Shares of
To the General Managers and Consulting Committee of the HONGKONG FIHE IN- BURANCE COMPANY, Lumized, Their Docks at Whampoa are in I request you to allot me working order and are pumped out by One Thousand Dollata each in the above Steata, and the workshops comprise the named Company, and I agree to accept anch different departments of Shipwright, Black-Shares, or any less number which may be Boilermaker and Misobinery works. Butter and to pay a Call of One kind and on Hundred Dollars per Share on allotment, Materiale supplied of the the most reasonable terme. Ajetty with a and a further Call of One Hundred Dollars pair of powerful lifting shears, alongside of per Share, six months after allotment, and 1 which maste and builers can be taken Dat lurther undertake to subscribe to the Deed
of Battlement when called on to do so,
Tremain, Goutlemen,
Your Obedient Servant,
of Vessels.
Their Hongkong establishment (lately known as Meser's THOR HUNT & Co. Wanohi Shipyard) comprises also the dif ferent departments of Shipwright, Black- amith, Boilermaker and Machinery works and possesses a pair of lifting sheare.
RESOLUTIONS
FlareED TO AJOVE..
No. 1,
That the General Managers and Consult- ing Committee are hereby authorized to adopt measures for the reconstruction of the Company as the ilongkrong Fire Insur-
Their Granite Dook at Kowloon most ad- vantageously situated, solidly built, and of full dimensions to admit the docking of any Vessel coming to this harbour, will be comance Cupany, Limited, on the basis propos
ed in the Memorandum of the 2nd April pleted in a very short time.
presented to this Bleeting.
The Steam Tug "LITTLE ORPHAN”
is always in readiness to tow Vessels to Dock, free of charge, and to sex, or new berth, at reduced rates.
works carried on under the superin tendence of experienced European foremon
For
apply particulare, to
D. MITCHELL Manager of Works, At the Office of the Company, .B. Consignee or Masters of Vessels having cause to complain of the works done at the Docks or at Hongkong, will please ad dress their complaints to the Office of the Com- pany, which will reosite the immediate atten- tion of the Directors,
Hongkong, April 28, 1868.
Insurances.
THE NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY.
(Established 1st January, 1863) - CAPITAL, TIS. 1,500,000, IN 1,500 SHARES, POR ÉLS. 3,00) EACH. Paid-up Capital, Taels 300,000,
Thels 200 per Share."
Provisional Cominitiee.
W. J. ESTANA, Esq., Chairman.
(MessIS TURNE & Co.)
F. H. BRLL, Esq
(Messrs W. RABAMBON & Co.)
А. Мюнів, Ева.
(Mears CHATMAN,
E. H;
LAVERS Esq
KING & Co.)
(Messa GMAN & Co.)
F. PORTER, Esq.
(Mesara GiB, LIVINGSTON & Co.) Directors of the Company, 1866-68.
Ta General Meeting held on Tuesday. the 12th day of May, 1888, the fol- lowing Resolutious wern pussed, relative to the continuauce of the Company for a fur ther period of three years from the lat 1869; and Notico is hereby givon January 1
Shares in the annexed that applications Forms, will be rescived as the Ollies of the Company until 31st October, 1868.
Applications for Shares from Persons not resident in Shanghai, must be accompanied
Power of
of Attorney to their Agents to niga the Deed of Battlement on their ba half and generally to represent them in all matters connected with the Company.
In accordance with the Resolution passed at the meeting of 18th November, 1867, & separate Office of the Company will be opened in London, in 1st January, 1869, By order of the Court of Directors,
JOHN 8. MACKINTOSH, Secretary.
Shanghai, May 15, 1868,
No.
Form of Application for Shares.
To the Provisional Committer of the NORTH
UNA INSURANCE COMPANY.- GENTLEMEN,
to
hereby request that you will allo Shares in the above Company, and to accept such Shares, or any less agree naber you may allot to ; and agree to pay the first call of Tia. 200 per Share, and all subsequent calls, and to Bubscribe to the Deed of Settlement when- ever required to do en..
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant
Resolutions referred to above.
RE. The Company to be called
the North China Inauratice Company" shall be formed for a further period of three years, from 1st January, 1869 to 31st Deo, 1871,
RE. That the Directors for the time. being of the present Company be appointed
No. 2.
One month,
Three months, Six months,
à per cent.
"HOLLIDAY, WISE & CO. Hongkong, April 7, 1868.
THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
CAPITAL-TWO MILLION STERLING.
BE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company at this port, are prepared to grant Policies against Fire, to the extent of £10,000, on Buildings or on Goods stored therein.
MORGAN, LAMBERT & Co. Hongkong, May 20, 1868.
vizi
NOTICE.
THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. HE following Rates will be charged in future for short period Insurances, Not exceeding 1 month, of the annual rate Above 1 month and not
exceeding 3 months, + da. Above 8 mouths and
not exceeding 6. £ do Above 6 months, the full annual rate,
MORGAN, LAMBERT & Co., Agents the Queen Insurance Company, Hongkong, May 20, 1868.
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, REDUCTION IN THE RATES OF PREMITOM Detached and semi-detached
Dwelling-Houses removed from Town, and their Con. tents,
,
Other Dwelling-Houses used strictly as such, and their Contents,
Godowns, Offices, Shops, de.
and their Contents,
per cont, per annum,
per cent. per annum.
per annum.
Unual Rates will be pharged for Fire Insurance, viz
Detached and Semi-detached Dwelling Houses removed from the Tawn, and their Contents,
Other Dwelling Houses need atziatly as such, and their Contenta, Godowns, Officer, Shups, Go.
and their Contents,
i per cent.
per cent.
1 per cent. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents, Imperial Fire Insurance Company
Hongkong, March 6, 1865.
BOMBAY INSURANCE COMPANY
AND
FOREES & CO.'S CONSTITUENTS INSURANCE COMPANY.
THE Undersigned having been appointed Agenta for the above Companies are prepared to accept Risks on the nut.
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & C Honghong, February 20, 1868.
issue Policios against Far as follows, viz.
On any one fi
first-class Building, or on Goods stored
theroin - in Hongkong, $60,000; in Macau $46,000.
ROB. §. WALKER & CO.,
(No. 1586.-Juzr 4, 1868.
Insurances.
ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE.
COMPANY.
ESTABLISHED 1833, CAPITAL, £600,000.
Managing Agents in China,
Messrs.
ATGUSTINE HEARD & Co., Hongkong, Medical Referee, J. Ivon MURRAY
Esq., M.D.
Agente Royal Insur. Company of Liverpool. THE Undersigned having been appointed Banaging Agents for the above Com- Hongkong, June 17, 1864,
pany are prepared to accept risks and issue Policies on Tafe Assurances.
For further particulare, forms of propo sals, &c., apply to
THE UNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF CALOUTTA: ESTABLISHED 1834.
·Subacribed Capital.
£500,000.
Accumulated Funde exceed £808,000.
HE Vudoraigned are empowered to accept LIFE ASSURANCES in the above
AUGUSTINE HEARD &Co. Managing Agents in China, Hongkong, Jane, 1887.
Society. Full particulars given on appliotes and Queries:-
calion.
ROB. S. WALKER & Co. Bengkong, February 21, 1865. 21ag AMICABLE INSURANCE OFFICE.
been appointed
H Undersigned having
Agents for the above INSURANCE OFFICE, are prepared to accept Marine Kisks, and isgae Policies on any first class Sailing Vessela or Steamers, oh the usual Tthe request of the Undersigned, tornis, payable in case of loss, in CHINA, A Musara GIBB, LIVINGSTON SINGAPORE, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, OF LONDON.
have taken temporary charge of the follow- ing Insurance Companies →→→
Phoenix Assurance Company. Liverpool and London and Globe Inmir-1 ance Company.
London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company.
Universal Marino Insurance Companyd
Limited.
SMITH, KENNEDY & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, July 2, 1867. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
FIRE AND-LIFE.
·
· ÇAPITAL, £2,000,000,
(LIFE DEPARTMENT. }
per cont per Cent. per Anne Bonus declared £2 during the lass Fifteen Years on all Profit participating Policies of Two Years' standing,
GILMAN & Co., Agents North British and Bercantile Inarince Company. Hongkong, March 9, 1866.
NOTICE.
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The atmost liberality practised in the settlement of all Claims, with the repre- sentatives of deceased Assurers.
An Assurance for any eum not exceeding £1000 can be effected with the Undersigned without referring to Bead-quarters.
By
́ROB. N. WALKER & Û», Hongkong; Jns 17. 1864, YANGTZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF SHANGRAL.
DIVIDEND of (8 per cent) Eight A
per cent has been declared on the Nat Premix contributed to the above Association for the year ending 30th September, 1888.
Paljoy HOLDERS will please send in particulars of their contribution to that date to the Undürsigned.
KUSSELL & Co.,
Secretaries, Hongkong, September 7, 1807.
YANG-TSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIA- TION OF SHANGHAI,
HE Undersigued having boon appointed Secretaries and Agents of this Associ- ation, aru prepared t
to issue Policies upon Marine Risks at current rates of premium. Policies can be made payable in London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hongkong, Foochow and Shanghai.
GN
DHINA AND JAPAN.
A MONTHLY MEDIUM OF INTER- COMMUNICATION
FOR
Professional and Literary Men, Missionaries and Residents in the East generally.
EDITED BY N. B. DENNVE
PRICE $6 PER ANNUM.
Opinions of the Press.
(Foochow Advertiser, May 4, 1807.)
We have received a copy of "Notes and Queries" this publication will be really useful, it contains much matter relating to China which otherwise would be lost, and we wish it every success. Sinologues, Chi- nese antiquaries and seleutike mon ought especially to congratulate themselves on the
of "Notes appearance
and
Queries, as it will form
their medium of communication and bring into notice what otherwise might have lain unknown and buried in themselves. Now that Law and Officialism have got their Gazette, Soionon and
Philology their Notes and Queries, and Missionarios their Recorder, the various divisions of mental thought and work in this land ought to be well taken care of; for our part we are glad
issues, both
Boa these several: to BOO
on account In addition to the usual brokerage this of the information and instruction they Association returns to the sured of each afford, and the index they supply to the year at the close of each current year, mental vigour of the foreign community in
thir fifteen (15) per cent of the profite of the Company for that year divided pro rata to
land
That the General Managers and Consult.FROM and after this date the following are settled at once by the Undersigned the amount of premium paid by each po- (Facchow Missionary Recorder, April, 1867.)
Rates will be charged in Short Period
ing Committee are hereby requested to re-Insurance, viz ceive applications for Shares in the Hong Not exceeding one
Limited, koug Fire Kusurance Company,
month, Above 1ianth, and
and on the receipt of such applications to the extent of Und Thousand Sees to call
an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company for the purpose of authorizing its dissolation and the transfer of its assets and liabilities to
new Company.
the
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers Hongkong Fire Insurance Company.
NB.Forms of application for Shares may be had at the Office of the Company, Queen's Road.
Hongkong, April 9, 1858.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
NOTICE
FROM and after this date the following
Fontes will be charged for Short Period Insurances, viz:
Not exceeding One month,. Above 1 month and not ex-
Grading three?
mouths,...... Above 3 m'ths and not ex- Cheding six? months,
BIK
of the Anal: Kata,
Above 6 m'tha,The full Annual Rate,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Muruges, Hongkong Fire Insurance Compang, Hongkong, April, 1868.
ALLIANCE FIRE. ASSURANCE
·COMPANY,
NOTICE
ROM and after this duts the following rates will be charged for Short Period insurances, viz
Not. exceeding of the Annual Rate.
one mouth... Above I mont
and not ex- sweding three months, ... Above 3 m'ths
and not ex- cording siz
months,
Above 6 m'tha, The fall Annual Rate.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents, Alliance Fire Assurance Company.
Hongkong, April7, 1868.
MERCHANTS' MUTUAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO.
THE
PAID UP CAPITAL, $600,000. Undersigued having been appointed Agents in Hongkong and China for the above Company, are prepared to grant Policie at Current Rates.
OLYPBANT & Co.. Hongkong, August 9 1867.
THE LONDON ASSURANON
CORPORATION,
HK Undersigned having beet appoititad Agents of the above Corporation are prepared to graut Fire and Marine Insur
ance on the usual Tortos
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, December 26, 1867.
NOTICE. MANCHESTER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
not exceeding 1 montbe, Above 3 months, and
not excoeding months,
Above 6 montba,
of the annual rate.
special authority of the Board, Claitas without reference to England.
Fees to Medical Referees paid by the log-holder. No forfeiture of Policy from unintes-
tional mia-atatement.
Premium payable Half-yearly or An- aually at the option of the Assured,
Aunual Premiums for an Assurance of BI for the whole term of Life, including £2: 10s. por Cent, for Foreign Hisk, which dodusted during a visit to or a per- mament resident in Europe
the full Annual rate. will GILMAN & Co., Agente, North British and fercantile
Insurance Company, Hongkong, April 7, 1868.
WITBOUT WITH PARTICIPATION PARTICIPATION
AGE.
15
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILES,
INSURANCE COMPANY,
20
3 19 8 £4
3 :8
5
9
4
25
4 B 2
4 14
4 13 11
#
39
Я
0 0
* 6
સ
5 14
5 14
37 11
6 4
11 7
6 18.
3
13
! 4
10
9 0
8
7
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament.
ESTABLISHED 1809,
CAPITAL £2,000,000
ACCUMULATED FUNDS £2,233,927,
ANNUAL REVENUE £407,263.
HE Undersigned AGENTS at Hongkong for the above Company are prepared to grant Policies against TRE, to the extent of £10,000 on any Building, or on Merchandise in the same.
GILMAN & Co Hongkong, June 21, 1864.
MANCHESTER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF MANCHESTER ·
AND LONDON.
CAPITAL ONE MILLION STERLING. HE DIRECTORS have the pleasure to announce the appointment of Mesars Wise Co. for the
Company at Hongkong, Shanglito; Cautaus Hankow, and Fulchau, who are prepared to grant Insurances at current rates and of whom all needful information may be ob- tained.
By Order of the Board
JAS B. NORTHCOTT, Secretary.
¿CRAN MARINE INSURANCE, COMPANY.
LONDON. Incorporated 1869. CAPITAL,-€1,000,000, Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company are pre- pared to accept Marine risks and issue
Policies at current rates.
AUGUSTINE HEARD & Co Hongkong, June 6, 1847.
LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARINË INSURANCE COMPANY.
HE Undersigned having heen appoint
Agents in Hongkong for the above Company, are prepared to grant Marine Risks at current rates.
AUGUSTINE HEARD & Co. Hongkong, March 6, 1888.
IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
2888397828
N.. Intermediate ages charged proper
tionably.
-For Forms, for effecting Life Assurances, and for any further information, apply to
ROB. S. WALKER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, September 3, 1864.
tí
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, March 2, 1867.. PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The two first numbers of Notes & Que Ties on Chma and Japan have been placed of our table. The magazine is every way creditable to its editor and publishers, and we cannot but wish them the utmost suc cess in their efforts to fill an important and hitherto noccupied place in Eastern liter
THE Undersigned, Agents for the above cies against FIRE, on BUILDINGS and
Company are prepared to grant Poli-ature. GOODS, at current rates.
13
(Singapore Free Press, Mar. 2; 1867.). We have received the first number of a neat little pamphlet of eight pages entitled "Fates and Queries on Chian and
Japan, containing some able and interesting his- torical parere on China, zogether with notos and numerous queries for future con above to
RUSSELL & CO. Hungkong, February 6, 1867. PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, THE Undoraigned having been appointed
rated
ANCE COMPANY are prepared to grant Poli- cy covering Marine Risks, at the current
LUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, July 6, 1866.
BATAVIA SEA & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Cudersigned having been appointed Ants in Hongkong for the above named COMPANY are prepared to grant Po- licies against SA RISKS, at arzentrates.
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, April 1, 1865,
LANCASHIRE INSURANCE.
*
COMPANY.
(FIRE AND LIFE.) CAPITAL,--TWO MILLJOND STERLING.
LIFE ASSURANCE. THE Undersigned have received Autho
rity by a recent Mail to issue Jare Porames for amounts not exceeding £1000SE Undersigned are prepared to grant without roference to the Head Office, as was previously required by the Board
ROB, S. WALKék & Co., Aponts Royal Insurance Company. Hongkong, January 6, 1865.
NOTICE.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
TBE following Rates will be charged in future for short period Insurancea,
vis Not exceeding Ona
Month, Above One Month
per cent.
and not exceeding › per cent, Three Months,
Above Three Months
and not exceeding
Six Months,
Above Six Monthe,
per cent,
The full Anual Rate
of 1 per cent. ROB. S. WALKER & Co., Agents Royal Insurance Company. Hongkong, April 7, 1968;
THE
REDUCTION
IN THE RATES OF PREMION FOR FIRE INSURANCE.
Undersigned have (as already inti- mated in their Cironlar dated 14th Oc-
tober last) received authority from the Se- cretary of the ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY to reduce the rate of Premium under certain circumstances, on PRIVATE RESIDENCES and on FORNITURE and Er-
KOTS, therein contained.
In onser of DWELLING-HOUSES removed
HE Undersigned having been appointed from the Town, the rute of Premium will.
Agents for the above Compariy at this be
Per Annum as
as hitherto charged Fort, aro prepared to grant Policies against per Cent quarter's per. Cent, in place of Ons Fire to the satent of $60,000 on Buildings, and in cases of Residences, so situated, his or on Goods stored therein.
ing detached of sand detached, the rate will GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. be further reduced to One-half per Cent, Hongkong, August 24, 1804
The Royal's, Annual Rates for an IR SUBANOE on the various classes of Buildings and their contents will therefore romain as follows; until further notice, viz. Detached and semi-detaobod. Duelling Houses (removed
the from Town) and their Content Houses (Bi- Other
NOTICE.
IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE.
to act as a Provisional Committed to organosing Rates will be charged in FROM and after this date the following
hize the new Company."
Piz
futurs short period Insurances,
Ras, III.That this meeting recommends Not excecxling 1 month,per cent.
that the Provisional, Committee should adopt as tho basis of the new Company that the capital should ha 1,500,000 iu 1,0 Shares of Ts. 1,000 each; Paid up Capital, Tha 300,000 or Tis. 200 per Share, and that the Committee be authorized to issue prospectus inviting applications for Bhares and to proceed with the allotment,
Above 1 month and not
exceeding & months, ✦. do,
Abovo 3 months and
not exoceding B 4 do
Baten will be charged for Short Period Insurazices, viz
Not exceeding 1 month, of the annual rate Above 1 mouth and
not oxcceding 3,... S do.
Above 3 months and
not exceeding 6,... I
-do,
Above 6 months,........the full annual rate. Above 6 months, the full annual rate,
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.
Agents,
3100
Hongkong, April 8, 1868,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agenta, Imperial Fire Insurance Company.
Hongkong, 4 April 7, 1869,
per cent.
larly situated) and their Contents,
per cent. First Class China House and
their Contents,
14 per cent. Other Risks as per special arrangement.
ROB. S. WALKER & Co.,. Agente Royal Insurance Company. Hongkong, November 9, 1800,
number of its pages will depend upon the number and length of its
ita contributions. The work will be received with eagernes by literary men, as throwing light
проп the ancient traditions of China, with re- searches into the laws of the various pro- vinces, and the custom of the people San Francisco News Letter, Mar. 23, 1807. We have received the first unmber, which is full of curious, out-of-the-way, and ints-
resting matter."
(Shanghai Recorder, May 17, 1867.) We are put in possession of the fourth number of Notes and Queries ou China anu Japan." In saying that the present number equals in interest and importance. its predecessors, we have already said, great deal in its favour, Our knowledge of these countries has hitherto been so scattered, su
so ill-arranged,
entombed sa it
Jan-
ware, in a series of works, in different guages, and spreading in point of time, over the leat two centuries, that some meant of separating what is really new, from what has prasibly been over and over again dea- re-crib is much to be desired
Poross against the Risk of FIRE on Buildings or on Goods stored therein, on Coals in Matsbeds, on Goods on board Yessels and on Hulls of Vensels in Har bour, at the usual Terms and Conditions
for Life Assurances will be r Proposals ceived, and transmitted to the Directore for their decision.
If required, protection will be granted on first class Lives up to £100 on a Single Life.
For Rates of Premiums, forms of pro- posals or any other information apply to
ARNHOLD KARBERG & Co. Ayonts Hongkong & Canton. Hongkong, January 4, 1867.
LANCASHIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
NOTICE,
FROM and after this date the following
Hates will be charged on short period Insurances, viz:-
Not exceeding of the Annual Rate,
one month... Above 1 month
and not ex-
throa
Above 3 m'ths aud But ex- ceeding six mouth,...
cribed is
****
As a medium of intercommunication on these and many other subjects of interest to those connected with the far East, we must bail the
pearance of "Notes and Queries
We bead
need only add that the periodical ja of conve
É convenient size, is caTE edited by Mr N. B. Donnys, and is published at the low price of 4 per annum; and
I having said this, we trust that "Notes and Queries en China and Japan" will meet with that success which so oreditable a pro.. duction deserves at the hands of those in- terested in asiatic researches.
Report of North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. March 1867.
Two periodicals which are likely to be of grené service bave also been commenced; one is published at Foochow and is called The Missionary Recorder," and the other emanates from
I
Notes
BOXJIK
ایکیا
It is intended to serve Queries and is called as a medium of intercommunication for per- us interested in Chinese Philology, Geo- graphy or History. These indications of li- feraty activity are perhaps the most import ant "sign of the times" has been our province to record, for they are all means Above 6 utha Tho full Annual Rate.
ARNHOLD, KAUBERG & Co., -
to facilitate that mutual understanding ono- Agents, Lanachire Insurance Company.lish between Europe and China.
of the other, which seaínu so hard to catub- Hongkong, April 14, 1803.
DE OOSTERLING
SEA AND FIRE INSURANCE COM
..PANY OF BATAVIA.
(Hankow Times, Mar. 1867) We insert this week, apropos of some pi- quant correspondence which has appeared of the late in our columns, an extract from
SAMARANG SEA AND FIRE INSUR. the new publication, "Notes and Queries
ANCE COMPANY OF SAMARANG..
on China and Japan," on the subject of in- fantioide, which we particularly recom THE Undersigned having been appointed end to the notice of our contributors as
Agents in Hongkong for the above containing some reliable feets in com named Companies are prepared to grant nection with
the
TEXEC question. Policies against See Risks on the ususlarly adapted for bringing to light valp
Such &
work as the Notes" is Fecu torms.
STEMSSEN & Co..
information in Hongkong, August 1866.
respect to this othe try, and its people, language, and i stitutioba; and we trust it will be as warm
SAMARAN SEA AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF SAMARANG,
able
ly anpported it deserves by the nume
rous rising and energetic mes, who are now thanks pit
principally to
to the philological la THE Undersigned having been appointed bours of Mr Secretary Wade, making rapid Agents in Macao for the above named advance in the acquirement of the languages Company are prepared to grant Policies to say nothing of the devoted missionaries covering Marina Risks at the current Rates. who have already grown grey in their ant RAYNAL & Co. vice to the cause to which they hare given
themselves,
Macao, August 4, 1866,
No. 1686.-Juty 4,
...Post-Office Notificat MAILS BY THE "DELHI"- The Contract Packet DELH dispatched with the usual lupe, re, on FRIDAY July, at 7 A.M... anti the will be open for the receptio nary Lotters, Letters for f Newspapers, Books, &o, & on the 9th furst, Letters,
be posted in the night box
until A
on the 9th ret following morning.
All Letters posted between 5. a
the 10th
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inst, will be chr
stidition to the usual peste
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Late Fee ceuts The latest time for posting Lette Office is b AM and for N Books, or Patterns Balst, o Lust.
Further,
Lotter
Late lettera (but dressed to the Unite Ki Marseilles or to Singapore posted on board the Packet! to 11.60 4.3 on payment o ol.48 cents onch, in adƐt aftor which no Let postage, received.
Sealed Boxes containing the corr of Box Holders will be rece window set apart for the p tho East Side of the butikling All correspondence for places to payment is compulsory must
Hongkong Postage Stang Insufficiently-stamped. Letters no
the United Kingdom will
fine of One charged with
addition to the postage. Letters posted after & A.M. on the
will not be forwarded unles Fee as well as the postage is Letters insuficiently stamped o
addressed to places to which not be forwarded unpaid, wi the write
ed and returned
i to
as possible, but no, gustan thas such Letters, if p giveu
P.. on the 9th Inst., wilt ed until after the mail is clos
Postage Stamps abould be .plac
r of upper right hand corner pondence, except in case3 y may be used in payment of I when the Stamp or Stamps ing the late fee should
be pla lower left-hand corner. All transactions in fractional part
lar will be conducted in the scribed by Ordinance 1, of the Freclamation of the 22nd 1864, and no other Colsa. tierein specified will either t or given in change as fractio of a Dollar. Payment for Postage Stamps us
in the current Dollars of the Bauk Notes,
F. W. MITC Postmaster G
General Post-Uffice, Hongkong, July 1, 1868.
TT is hereby notified for general
tion that henceforward the chargeable on Book and Packets of addressed to the United States of transinitted via the United King
be as follows, TOŽÍ.
Under
4 quace,
Above 4 ounce and no: ex-
oeding & unco, Above 8 ounce and not ex-
reading 12 one- ábove 12 once and not ox-
18 ounces, ceeding 18.
For every additiomaí 4
Vin MARSEILLES.. Cador 4 ounce,. Above 4 ounce and not ex-
ceuling 8 ounce, Above Bounce and not ex-
ceeding 12 ota
Alayo 1 omuco auf not ex-
cording to ounce, For, every additional 4 Prepayment of the Postage is c in each case.
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F. W. MITC Postmaster 6
General Post Office, Hongkong, June 18, 1668.
Tutimations.
BROWN, JONES & Co.
UNDERTAKERS.
MONUMENTS and HEADS ERECTED, in the Best Se LEAD and METALLIC COF the Shortest Notice.
Apply at
Hollywood Road, Corner of Aber HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOC
SILVER CHALLENGE O
VALUE $150.
OPEN
to Members of this A
only, and to bocoure the p the person making the highest Score at three competitions. CONDITIONS. Ranges 200, 400 and 600 yards Seven Shots at each Range Rifles. any; Witworth's and
allow to points, and other a 12 points to Enfields ou tho at esoh competition. Any position. Competitors can enter with one Rifle. Katrance Fee $o cach If suficient numater of entries the first competition will take SATURDAY, the 18th instant, co
at 3 P.M.
Merabers wishing to enter fo Cup will please forward their ua Secretary and sinte the descriptio with which they intend to compet E. L WO
Hun
Dongkong, June 6, 1808. ORIENTAL BOWLING ALLI BILLIARD SALOONS Entrance Wellington Sis
DAVID BROWNE, (LATE MANAGER OF THE LUON
BOS to inform his Friends ag BE
Ho that he lms opened the and Bowling Alley and Billiard and trusts by strict attention t and the confort of visitors, to t of their patronage,
Feed Fancy Drunks of every 1 Hongkong, April 13, 1868.
HOUSIN&Co, DUBLIC AUCTIONEERS, N
2ND GENERAL BRŐKE
ANU
COMMISSION MERCHAI Kosa, roce, Jara.
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