Page
1893-JULY
Insurances.
1869.
ABLE INSURANCE OF
Undersigned having been appoint anta for the above, INSURANÚK
d
arg, prepared to accept Marina). Issue Policies on, any first, claąs Vendela or Steamers, on the usual ayable in case of lose in Chisin 38, CALCUTTA, BokBit, LUNDER
ROB. S. WALKER & BUSI eng, June 21-1864, 25 blow bac
NOTICE.
AL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ollowing Rates will be charged in ure for short period Insurances
ceding One
Jae Month pxceeding Montha,
ree Monthe
texceeding
nths,
pub bab &
per cent
valet je ten per cent,
ix Months of 1 per cent ROB.IS, WALKER
The full Annual Bate,
06.
Agents Hoyal Insurance Company." ong, April 7, 1868.35 d
dersigned baying received GRIGUES? mits from THE BOYAJ INBURY OMPANY, are now authorised to i cies against Fies as follows, bud one frst Mai Building or on ored therein Li Hongkong,
in Masao $46,000,
ROB S, WALKER & 06EU
oyal Insur. Company of Liverpoola
ong, June 17, 1864.
REDUCTION **
THE RATES OF PREMIUM FOK
FIRE INSURANCE,
ndersigned have (as already intit
ed in their Circular dated 14th Oc received authority from the Ser the ROYAL INSURANOR Y to Reduce the rate of orn ditcumstances, on Fraum NCES And on FURNITURK and Br rein contained, hegte oo hunt
charged
of DWELLING HOUSES: Tourved Town, the rate of Premium will quarters per Cept, în place of One
Per Annum as hitherto sea of Residences, só álínated, ed or semi detached, the rate will reduced to One-half per Centra yal's Annual Rates for FILE IN
n the varings olsses of Buildings
contenta will therefore remain as:
til further notice, viz
and semi-detached,
Houses (removed Town) and their lling-Houses (sumi per cent,
cuated) and their
per cent.
China House and ntents, isks a per special arrangement
per cent. ROB, & WALKER & 0,
gente Royal Insurance Company,
ag, November 0, 1860.
INSURANCE COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO. at Buḥ
dersigned, Agents for the above
+
any are prepared to grant Poli
FIRE, on BUILDINGS and current rates.
RUSSELL & Co
ng, february 6, 1867.
A SEA & FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
tersigned having been appointed to Hongkong for the above
MPANY are prepared to great Po at SEA RISKS, at currentrateji
RUSSELL & Co.:
ag, April 1, 1865.
SZE INSURANCE ASSOCIA ION OF SHANGHAL, W
8 granted on Marine Iiski to
rts of the world at current rates.
on to the neual brokerage, this returns to the satured Fifteen its yearly profite divided pro net premium contributed,
RUSSELL & C
Secretaries.
K, June 4, 1819.
INSURANCE COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO,
erdigued having been appointed in China for the above INAUL BY are prepared to grant Pol Marine Risks, at the aurren
FUSSELL & Co,
July 6, 1866,
MARANG SEA AND SURANCE COMPANY OF
SAMARANG,
Tsigned having been appointed in Macso for the above named prépared to grant Policles rine Risks at the current Rates
RAVNAL & CO
ngust 4, 1846,
DE OOSTERLING
FIRE INSURANCE COM-
ANY OF BATAVIA. T
SEA AND FIRE INSUR MPANY OF SAMARANG
raigned having been appointed in Hongkong for the shove anies are prepared to grant at Sea Rusks on the usual SIEMSSEN, & Co. 15
1866
-40gust
blished by CHABLES ÅBEATAM
prietor at No.2, soria, "Hongkong,
No. 1893. –July 2'- 1889.) (UT
542 Post-Office Noffiieations.
Postage Stamps should be placed on the
THE CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications:
18-Repayment whether of an original,
appez right hand corner of the corresor renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not pondence, oxoept in cases where
be used in payzaent of "Late Jo when the Stamp or Stamps represent
or Registration
may
Feos should be placed on the lower left- hand corner,
STEAM FOR Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle
Aden, Suez, Malta, Marseilles, all transactions in fractional parts of a Dol- Falistas! darwill be condicted in the Coins pre- and Southampton;
scribed by: Ordinance 1, of 1854, and A180, -20 % gender the Proclamation of the 22nd January; Madras, and Calcutta186 no other Coin, but those Bombay,
As therein specified will either be received THE PENINSULAR AND ÜBIENTAL STEAM or given in change as fractional parts
NAVIGATION COMPANY Steam alaply of Dollars Her Majesty's Stails, Passengers Spédie in the currait Dollars of the Colony or "BEHAR" Capt. A. M. LOCK, with Payment for Postage Stamps must be made
and Cargo, will leave this for the abdve places, on THURSDAY, the 8th July
PABOELS and OARGO will be received
Bank Notes Kuning Money Orders on sby of the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom will be granted until 6 PM, on the 7th Instant, on board until Noon, and SPECIE nutilde SAMLA BARFF, 4P.M. on the 23rd June.
Hegacy di For the Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong,
For particulars regarding Freight aid Pausage, apply at the P.&O. S. N. Co. Office, Hongkong,
CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES
AKE REQUIRED,
A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Com pany'e Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not held, themselves responsible for any detention prejudice which may happen from incorrect news on such declarațion
Nhippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's
Lading Black Bills of
W. MACAULAY, Superintendent. P.&O. 8. N. Co.'s Office, Hongkong, July 1, 1860.
ed as follows
july 8-
July 1, 1869. jul 138
be made to the remitter until it has been celled at the Office on which the le originally drawn v
ascertained that the advise has been can
14-Payment of an Order must be ob tained before the bad of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn; for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the end of July otherwise the Older will beconds lapid, and a now Order (for which a second Com mission, to be deducted from the amount of the Order will be charged) will become necessary.u
15.-If an Order be not paid before the
end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn, for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before the end of the following January -all claim to the Money will be forfeited, nicer, under peculiar pircunstances, the Post Ofice of the Country in which the Order was drawn think proper to allow it.
16.-After opce paying a Money Order 1-It is horeby notified that under arby whomsoever presented, the paying Office rangements made by the Director General will not be liable to any further claim. If of the Post Office of India which have been a wrong payment, howover, be made owing confirmed by His Excellency in RICHARD to negligence on the part of any Officer GRAVER-MACDONNELL the fast Opium the Post Office, the Postmaster General of Steamers plying between Hongkong, the the Country or Colony in which the négli- Straits and Calcutta will henceforward be gence occera will, if be ses fit," require the classed as "Indian Mail Packets," and that Officer in fault to make good the loss. pippayment of the Postage on ordinary Letters ich wardba by dm will Be option Letters however which may be posted insufficiently paid will be charged as wholly18.Additional Rules for greater sern unpaid,
rity against fraud, and for the better work- 2.The rate of Portage on Letters is 8ing of the system generally will be made dents for each half-ounce, or fraction of us occasion may require.
half an ounce. Re
3.-Letters for registration must be pre- paid with the full amount of l'ostage at vente for each half ounce, and 12 cents in addition for the registration fee on each Letter, irrespective of its weight:
4Newspapers and Prices Current must be prepaid at the rate of 2 cents each..
17-No Money Order, will be paid unless the advice has been previously received,
19. Should it appear that Money Orders are used by mercantile men, or otliers, either in the United Kingdom or at Hong kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the transmission of large sums of money, the British or Colonial Post Office, as the case may be, will consider the propriety of in- Creasing the Commission, and will exercise the power of wholly suspending for a time the issue of Money Orders.
Book Fackets and Pabkets of Pat terus must be prepaid, at the rate for each four ounces of 6 cents
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster Centralne
General Pont Offico, Hougkong, 11th May, 1869.7
By Commandan
FW. MITCHELL, lity Postmarter General General Post Office, Hosigkong, 22nd August, 1868.
fa
:64
* Intimations. _____
NEW BOOK,
HE Speculations of
The Old Philosopher'
LAU-TEZE." Translated from the Chinese
BY
JOHN CHALMERS, A.K. Price $1.60. -ALSO, The Origin of the Chinese" by the same hauthor: Frichtsvoed sid Apply at Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. or The London Mission House. Hongkong, October 1941868
SAYLE & Co., VICTORIA EXCHANGE, HÙNG HONG
PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIP
COMPANY abantail is the let October next, and thence THROUGH U. S MAIL LINK TO NEW YORK, forwart Monot the Ageticies thereof at visions of a Treasury Warrant dated
Orders will be issued at
IT is hereby notified that, under the pro TEAMERS of this line will be despatch-Shanghai and Yokohains on all the Money the 7th May, the Postage on a Letter not Order Offices in the United Kingdom of exceeding half-an-ounce in weight posted Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not in Hongkong or at any of the Forts is July 19 August, 19 exceeding £10, at the rate of Exslange China and Japan addressed to Egypt, or Current for Each Mail, and charged with posted in Egypt addressed to Hongkong or Commission according to the following any of the Forta in China and Japan, and Scale, viz.
Cente
by British Packet, is Twenty- reduced from T -four Cents.
China,
Great Republic,
A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or abuns same date, conngching at Yokohama
with above-named steamer.
Passengers ticketed through to California, Mexico,
Central and South America, the Atlantic States, and to England or France,
both via New York and by lines from Pa-
nama and Aspinwall,
voyage.
B
04.
his yangboat AA SAMSUN
HAVE RECEIVED EX MAIL STEAMER.
A
Intimations.
SERVICË.
Intimations.
HINESE PILOTAGE Master or his deputies, it will be obligatory on registered Pilot Bosts to convey from place to place within the limits, employés bolonging to either Customs or Harbour Master's
GENERAL REGULATIONS
"WITH LOCAL RULES
FOR THE
PORT OF SWATOW.
GENERAL REGULATION I
Bye-Laws and Local Rules. 1-Bye-Laws and Rules necessary for the botter ordering of pilotage matters at the Porte are to be drawn up by the Har- bour Master in consultation with the Con
quia and Chamber of Cotupierce, with whom
"Hiso
may be wants, with such stores a
Light-ships.
for either Light-houses or
2--Every Licensed Pilot Boat shell pay a fee
of Twenty Taels for renewal of Li cenze on the first of July each year.
3.In case of a Pilot going off in an un- registered Boat, he will be authorized to carry the Pilot Best Flag during the time. he is on board; but no Pilot is authorised to cruize in an unregistered Boat, without special permission from the Harbour Mas
ter.
4.The owner or hirer of any unregis tored Boat making use of a Pilot Flag, and it resta in the same way to Bx the not having a Licensed Pilot on board, shall ber of Filote, tariff of obarges, and define be prosecuted before the authorities to the limits of the Pilotage ground.
who he is amenable, or whose Flag or national Ensign be bas the right to uso.
2.The number of Filcta for the Port of Swator. alall be mix.
3.The Filotage ground for the Port of Swatow shall be of Ball Islet to the lower limit of the anchorage Bahchio Point. |-4--The rates of pilotage shall be as fol
lows for all sized vessels between the limits of the Pilotage ground; steamers or sailing servescola, $2.50 por foot English measurement. To Harbour Pilot for Borthing or Unberth- ing, 50 conta pur feqt English measure
Large assortment of MILLINERY, BONNETS, and HATS, of the latest inshions,
parsimo
sud
Wear
Choios assortment of SILK MUS
and GRENADINE, for Evening
My Heart I
A fas assortment of new French FLOW. ERS, HEAD-DRESSES and FEATHERS.
gond
A large assortment of new TRIM MINGS and FRINGES in all colors.
¡midžt.
GENERAL REGULATION 'I The subjects citizen or proteges of Treaty Pilis-Individuale Eligible
Powers shall, equally with Natives of Ching, And without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies occur, by the Board of appointinent, sub Ject to the General Regulations now lasued, and the Bye-Laws to be under them onforged at the several Ports respectively,
*- - GENERAL REGULATION III. III. Board of Appointment, how to beể constructed,
The Board of Appointment shall consist of the Harbour Master as President, the or a Bonior Pilot, and two persons whose
A registered Pilot Boat is not par mitted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when there is either a Licensed Pilot or certificated Ap prentice on board..
GENERAL REGULATION IX
Flags to be exhibited on arrival. When uearing the anchorage the Pilot eball · se to be exhibited----
A Red and White Flag (No. 3), if the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Port, mode?
A Blue and White Flag (No. 2), if from any Foreign Port
A Yellow and Blue (No. 10), if the vezzel is in ballast, a mezar
bas
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5), if the vezel gunpowder *OF other combustibles po
board.
GENREAL REGULATION X. Harbour Pilots Vessels in Harbour, Berthing, &c. 1.--The duties of the Harbour Pilot, where auch exista, will be to take charge of vessela at the outer limit of the anchorage, berth them in aveordanes with the orders received from the Harbour Master's De-
names shall be drawu by lot, by the Barbat take charge of ressels shifting
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Kid GLOVES, bour Master, front à list prepared and unb in white and colors, all sizes,
lished by the Harbour haster in consulta tion with the Consuls and Chambers of Commerce. ROL HATS.GENERAL REGULATION IV..
kacancies: how to be filled up.
Gentlemen's Drab Shell and Folt
------
Blue and Green GOSSAMERS, to
BRANCH E STABLISHMENT,
20, Foochow Boud, Shanghai. Hongkong, February 3, 1869,
FOR SALE.
coolnes
ה!
going in and out of dock, or to and
from a wharf or out of the auchorage, and to assist and report to the Harbour Master's Cffice all ma
matters concerning the shipping And the
A
for servancy of the river
2-In berthing vessels the Harbour Mas
1-Whenever there may be a vacancy ter will, as far as possible, meet the wishes amnog the Pilots, it shall be duly notified in of Commanding Officers and Consignees the lopal printa; and night days afterwards and the entrance, working or clearance of the Bosed of Appointment shall proceed to vessels taking berthis not assigned to them, shall be stopped by the Customs until the All it up by a competitive examination.
2.—The Board may refuse to admit to Harbour Master's orders are complied with.
S.Vessels are to moor the examination any one who, having ones
hoor in accordance beon Liceused Pilot, has bad his License withdrawn,, and also any candidate who is unable to procure Consular Cortificates as to Character,
with orders received from the Harbour Master, and they are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4.-The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable examination shall be public and to the Barbour Master are as follows:
Shifting a vessel's barth taking a vessel
for woonveyed in the Maile by Twelve AT THE "CHINA MAIL: OFFICE, gratuitpus, and the vacancies shall be given
For sums not exceeding £2) #12 Above. £2 and not exceeding £5,24
200 142
£10,...48
For Letters exceeding half-an-ounce in
to the most competent among the caudito or from a heaving down Halk: $10, in
full provided always the competency of the first dates without distinction of nationality,
but absolute....|
THE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA & JAPAN," AND "NOTES AND 4-The Consn!
MEN10 G No Money Order to include a free Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory.in paper wrappers, at the ratë. of 25 cents on the list be notcerned may in person; QUERIES ON CHIKA AND JAPAN."
Return tickets issued && réductibl 10% upon the whole amount for the roundtional part of a Funny,
S-Orders drawn in the United King-i Connections are made at Panama with dem apon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko- Steam Lines upon the West Coast of Con-hate, will he paid at the rate of Exchange tral and South America, at Aspinwall with at which Money Orders are being issued at
the time of their presentation: PROVI the "Royal West India Mail Line," West India and Pacific Steam-ship Company," 4.Alphabetical Liste of over 3,700 (Limited) and the "French Transatlantic Money OrderUlises in the United King Company" And, at New York, with the dome, showing the Counties in which they various lines to Europe Tickets insted are situated, are hung up for public refer for the following Steam-ship Lines: Inman,ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai National General Transatlantic Co., New York and Havre Steam-ship Co., New York and Bremen Steam-ship Uo., and North
German Lloyds.
Favorable arrangements have been made
and Yokohama.
5-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian, pame, both of
fer or Payer be a Peer or & Bishop,
each bali ounce is chargeable. weight a further, ate of Twelve Cents for THE following SETS of the "CHINA
PUNGH" can be obtained, stitched
For copy viz
No.. Price
11 sote completo from 11
4
11
25
A.
1
25
16. 18.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office” Hongkong, July 16, 1869,
or by deputy, be present and take part in $3.60.the examination of candi
candidates, $2.60.The majority of the votes of the 12,25 members of the Board shall decide the Also a few separate copios CE NORI, 1: ausuission condidates Pilots L 3,7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and from 19 to 24. conses, cach member having one vote in the Ballet, but in the absence of the Copsit C. A. SAINT.
concerned the Harbour Master shall have a casting voto
GENERAL REGULATION V.
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT.
Trustees
formation that, the Contract between the 1.It is hereby notified for general in- Government of Mauritius and the Union Statm-ship Company, for the Conveyance of Mails once & Month between Mauritius, and
and and between Marition and Natal, Daving terminated, the corresponHo. denes for Mauritius will be forwarded from this Office in the Muil for Adan, from
W. KESWICK, |--, FORBES, Esq. JORN DENT, H. G. THOMSETT,
Esq., Directors,AL TEE
W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SASSOON, Eaq.
Pilots Licenses by whom to be issued. 1-Pilots Licenses shall be issued by the Commissioner of Customs in the same, and
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS
(From the "Straps Times," July 27, 1868.)
Some time ago we had occasion to remark upon the progress that Literature as repres sented by the Press had made and we making in the East, and our attention has AVAIL again been called the subject by the re cript
of
Hongkong publication which deserves some notice and which we have much pleasure in introducing to the know-
on behalf of the Chinese Government; Li ledge of our readers. We allude to Boter
and Queries censes jasured to Pilots not being natives
on China and Japan, published of Chips shall subsequently be vised and my Mr Saint, the proprietor of the
concerned. is well
Mail newspaper, This publication Jegistered at the Consulate
Incense Pilot shall be given sed Every
is very like its well-known name- the same sake or prototype at home, and is equally
regarding the language, litara- history manners and customs of the
for through passengers and freight to Amo the Rumilter and the l'ayee,; if the Remit whence it will be sent to its destination by Hon. H. B. Ci rica, from Calcutta, Penang and Singapore dinary title will be sufficient, if a firin, the Rennion and Mauritius on the 23rd of each G. J. Helland, Esy Bar W I BRACH printed copy of the Gaberal Regnitions and shed on good paper, and in size
and, from Swatow, Amoy and Poochow
Through Bilis of Lading given for Forts
G. DBARU, Eng.
as well as his License when
-3-On the Gest of July each year every fortaining very curious and useful
his or the Freneli Mail Fackets leaving Aden for usual deligation of such firm, sibh as Month
2. No alteration has been made in the W. LENANN, Esq. JJ MUKHAY, M. D. Len Bules and shall prod of Mexico and on the West Coast of Cen-Baring Brothers" will suffice; but the
mere form Mesra el Mesa R rates of Postage on correspondenco ad- tral and 1 South
vington,, or the nine of a Company, trad-dressed to Blauriins. raiso, to New York, and St. Nazairey
to as far os Valpar
Southampton
Freight to United States payable in ad Vance in Mexican Dollars, or on delivery
ing under a title which does not constat of 3. As the communication with Natal and W. names of the persons composing it, such the Cape of Good Hope is thus cut off, the correspondence for thoso Colonies, unless Caron Co." inaumasible,
Committee of Atangesnent.
Hou. V. KERWICE, Chairma
J.
MACAULAY, Eng. H. GERONEETT,
BELLAND, EEsq., R..
JONATIONS of Books, Periodicals, Newa→
hankfully received,
mine
ture,
Pilot shall pay the sum of Tea Hakan Chinese and in a less alegres of the Japanese.
for the renewal of his License, GENERAL REGULATION VI. Apprentice Pilots; to be taken..
*; how t 1. Iteball
It
good deal for the extent and ability of the fecting of Europeans in
be allowable for each Licensed should be established and conducted with
China, that such a publication as this
in American Gold Coin with 8 percent ad & The Remitter on stating that the. Or. marked to be forwarded by Private Ship papere, Clothes, &c. will be upital to take an apprentice, for whom he
ditional, at shipper's option.
For further information, apply at the Agency of the Company, Praya West.
GEO, E. LANE,
Agent, Hongkong, February 16, 1869.
Post-Once Notifications.
MAILS BY THE "BEHAR"---
The Contract, Packet BEHAR will
be dispatched with the usual Mails for Europe, &c., un THURSDAY, the Sth Instant, at 9A.M., and the Font Office will be open for the reception of Ordinary Letters, Letters for Registra
tion, Newspapers, Books, until
der is to be paid only through a Bank, to have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the Payes; in such case, the Order will be crossed in the same way that Cheques are commonly creased when they are intended to be paid through a Bank,
When an
en an Order is presented through aBank, a receipt by any person will be suf- ficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Butik, and be presented by some Person known to be in the employ of such Bank.
will, in future, be sent in the Mails for London at the following rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance, viz: Upon Letters sent by way
of Southampton,*** 40 cents each cz When sent by "way of
4
Marseilles..... 54 Newspaper via Southato-
pton Newspapers via Marseil
les,.....
Packets via South- ampton,..... 10
8-The signature of the Payes of a Mo-Book ney Order to be fixed to the Order in the place provided for the purpode. If the Payee be unable to frite he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence
>>
under
oz 20 cents above 4 oz. and not ex cebiling 802; and, 20 cents for every additional 8 oz.
A. OVERBURY, Superintendent: Hongkong, October 29, 1868
Published weekly. Subscription (Exclu sive of postage) Tla. 12 per annum payable in advance.
SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE,
AND
LAW REPORTED FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COUNTS OF URINA
AND JAPAN
HE Gasetta isa General Weekly Newapa-
shall be responsible; on the
the application of apparently successful vigour.
The publication is altogether a very in- the Harbour Master will supply Ap-teresting one, and wishing it every success, Pilots
with special certificates. prentices with
2.When the circumstances of the Forte commend it to the attention and support
of our readers.. - appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorize apprentices to aut tempora rily and within certain limits, as Pilots provided they bave received certificates of competency, from the Board of Appoint
ment.
GENERAL REGULATION VII.
;
(From the "Friend of India,” June 4, 1868.). We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the numbers for the current year of Notes and Queries," a most deserving Anglo-Chinese monthly, edited by Mr N. B. Dennys, whose "Treaty Ports of China
· Licensed Pilots; to whom subordinulâ,
and Japan are so well known. From the Unlicenced Filoting, éc, 1.--Licensed Pilots may carry on their that the contributors include some of the to the "Notes" we can sen names attached to business either singly or in Companies. best Chinese Acholars in the East. Its in pay due respect to the wishes terest is not confined to Obina, and it will They must
uns of the Harbin Master, be of vainable assistance to all scholars, who and instructions
under 4 ox; 28-coats above for and not of Crees heard at the Supreme and Consular placed, and who is invested with power to subject of Buddhism and ita literature, and
-
P.H. on the 7th Instant
a Witars, who mustige his name, with
who pays the Order.
from 8. un the 7th Instant unţii
desire to receive payment in the Country is
to
Lettere, his address in the presence of the Officer Book “Packets vià Marseilles, 14 cents per,containing Officially Revised Reports/under whose ordor and control they are have directed their attention towards the Tay to posted in the night box the Paves of a Money Order exceeding Boz; and 28 conte for every Courts, Polico Casos and Proceedings in suspend or dismiss, subject to su sppe generally to all who are interested in ori-
additional 8 ounces. MI Bankruptcy: Original Articles; Notes and the Consul concerned; when the Pilot is a
Queries Legal points H
Хонь Meetings
eports of Public Commercial Summary, &o., &o.
Advertisements will be charged Ts 1 per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 ots. per 10 lines, for each subsequent inser tion:
71.3. on the following mou A.M.
All Letters posted between 7 and 6
on the 8th Instant will be chargeable, in addition to the usual postage with
which the Order was issued, at svine other Office than that in which the Order was ori
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,
gally drawn, the transfer will be granted, General Post Office, Hongkong,
9th September, 1868.
to the
a Late Fee of 18 cantik provided the Order be inclosed The latest time for posting Letters at this Postmaster of the Office in which it was Ofoe is 8 3. and for Newspapers, drawn. In such case a new Order will be Books, or Putters A... on the Sth waued, the Commission shargeable upon
is hereby notified for general informie Instant
VLC which will be deducted from the amount of tion that henceforward the Postage Further, late letters (but Letters only) at the now Order, VA 201
-chargeable on Book and Packets of Patterns dressed to the United Kingdom vid 10-in the event of a Monoy-Order addressed to the United States of America Mureeilles or to Singapore, may rostod on board the Packet from 830carrying or being lost, a duplicate will transmitted via the United Kingdom will
be granted on a written application from be as follows, viz:-
to 8.60 4.a. on payment of a late fee the Payoo, (containing the necessary of 43 cents each, in addition to the particular, shit accompanied by an vidi- after which no Letters can be|tional Commission) to the Office where the postage received,
Original Order as payable Sealed Boxes containing the correspondence
of Box Holders will be received at the Un the receipt of a similar applica window set apart for ille purpose, on tion, orders will be given to stop payment of a Modey Qeder, or to renew a lapsed the East Side of the pindang
All correspondence les places to which pre-Order The additional Commission in the payment is compels must be drepaid laat one will be deducted from the amount in Hongkong Postage Stamps of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be Insuficiently stamped Letters addressed to presented with the application for a vow
the United Kingdom will be sent on, OrdorN charged with sans of Que Shilling in addition to the postage.
12-But when if in desired that any error in the name of the Remitter or Payee hould be corrected or that the amount of a Money Order abbald be repaid to the Repiteri pr that a Lapsed Order should
Latters posted after 7. on the 8th Instant will not be forwarded unless the Late Fee sa well
a well in the postage, ja
tonewed for payment in the Country in prepaid Letters insufficiently stapped or unstamped which the Order was originally draws, addressed to places to which they can application must be made to the Chief aut be forwarded cupaint, will be open Miray Oriter Office of suoli Country This ed and returned to the writers as early application must be accompanied by an in as possible, but no guarantee can be additional Commistion, unless it have rev given that such Letters, if posted after ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the 8 PM on the 7th Instant will be re Commission will be deducted from the turned until after the mail is closed, amount of the New Order.
SOUTHAMPTON, Under 4 ounce,
12 cents Above 4 ounce and not ex-
́eseding & oynes, ́=" 24 Alove 8 ounce, and not ex-
ceeding 12 ounc
Above 12 ounce and not ex- seeding 16 ounces,- ・・
48
For every additional 4-02, 12
.
16 cente
32
Fià MARSEILLES, Under 4 ounce, Above 4 ounce and not ex-
ceeding &ource, Above 8 ounce and not ex.
seeding ounes, Above 12 ounce and not ex-
veeding 16 ounce, - For every additional 4 16 Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory each case.
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Hongk
F. W. MITORELL Postmaster General, General Post Office,
June 18, 1868,
Shanghai, January, 1867.
ental antiquitlen 1t deserves to be better known in India.
(From the "London Examiner," May
:14, 1868.)
This really useful volume [Treaty Ports of China and Japan"] is intended as a and Japan, and as a book of reference for guide for travellers and residents in China mercantile men generally. It contains an
the Foreigner,
appeal to be lodged within three days.
guilty of any misconduct for which Consular punishment has been inflicted, or if proved to have committed any offenes against Revenue concerned may be suspended or dismissed Laws, the individual by the Harlour Master, subject to an at peal to bis Consul. If a Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged within three days.
3.Any one piloting without a facener, account, historical and political, of all the shall be subject to prosecution before his Peking, Tede, Hongkong, and Macao, It of these countries, together with own authorities, who will deal with the has been carefully compiled and edited by offender accordance with the Laws of his Mr N. B. Dennys; and the elaborate maps IS Medicine is univetaslly admitted. to be the most efficacious remedy Country Any Pilot Jeuding his License to and with which the abounds, known to the world. No preparation is so with in the she proceeded against and dealt 4-8ny Commanding Officer employing
HOLLOWAYS PILLS & OINTMENT. · HOLLOWAY'S PILLS,
another will
se this fine and invigorating medicine. It ing his License.
is particularly adapted to the constitution
of European ladies, as it is never failing in an unlicensed person to pilot his vessel it's ffects in all diseases pooubar to females; will be liable to be fined in the sum af Ona
porta
considerably enhance the work ahonn
We have thus given in ontline some devoted to Canton, as a specimen of the the more prominent portions of the chapter whole volume. Other chapters treating of Macao, Formuss, Ningpo, Shanghao, and
while those who are attenuated by the de. Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose the. remainder of the treaty ports, we can
bilitating effects of the above climates will find in this wonderful remedy a kind ofts lisman whereby they may insure a restura- tion to robust health.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
jurisdiction he is amenable.
only enumerate. The
pages describing OENERAL REGULATION VIII. Peking, the capital, are so inferanting, and. Pilot Deals: Regulations to be observed.
contain so much that is new to European 1-Pilot Boats shall be registered with readers respecting. Its history, public buil their crews ht the Harbour Master's Office, dings, and general chracteristics, that we where each bost will be given a certificate would fain transfer them to our columns. The science of Medicine has never before and number. The words "Licensed Pilot A complete and intelligible plan of the Im produced any remedy that can be compared Boat shal, with the number, be legibly perial City and neighbourhood, gives us u to this wonderful Olotment, is cures painted at the stern, and on the head of the accurato notion of the relative position of after all other means have failed, all Mainsail and a flag, of which the upper its divisions, streets, and places. wounds, sores, ulents, and also the most "horizontú half shall de yellow
in the introductory chapter to the notices and the inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the cli- lower green, shall be flown Such register of the Treaty Forts of Japan will be found mates of India arid.China. It is the true ed Pilot Bonts shall deposit their national a succinct history of that Empire, together friend of the Soldier and Civilian, os cerpapers with their Consul or the Customs; with remarks on its government, geography, tair old sores can be removed by it that they shall be at liberty to more freely and limite, which will be found particularly cannot be conquered by any other treat within the limite of the Port and Pilotage interesting as throwing a considerable light ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage on a part of the world so long entirely, and dues. On the requisition of the Harbour still comparatively, unknown to Europeans,
ment.
Hongkong, February 1, 1867.
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