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NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA RITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES,

·PAQUEBOTS POSTE KRA

STEAM FOR

BAIGON, SINGAPORE BATAVIA;

Post-Office Notifications.

Tis hereby notified for general informa

THE CHINA HAIL.

intimations.

IN 2002 NOVEMBER 6, 1860.

Intimatious.

THE

Post-Office Notifications. | Prints, and any quantity of paper, vellum chment (to the exolusion of letters dor open); and the Books,

may be either printed, sive of postage) Tla. 13 per annum, payable Published weekly. Subscription (Exclu- er any mixture of the in advance.

9Should the Payee of Money Order tion that henceforward the Postage desire to receive payment in

uhargeable on Book and Packets of Patterns which the Order was instied, sy tong sa

than that in which the Order

addressed to the United States of Americally drawn, the transfer will be

trauitted via the United Kingdom will be as follows, viz:- 10499

Via SOUTHAMPTON. Under 4óunse

13 cents.

Above 4 ounce and not ex

caeding 8 ounce,

- 34

Above 8 ounce and not ex-

POINT DE GALLE ADEN SUBZGeding

ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA

MARSEILLES,

DOMBAY, PONDICHERY, WADRAS,

“ISD CALQUERA

HE Company's Steain-ship “TIGRE," THE

Commandant Botnsve, will leave this Port for the above, places, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO, on TUESDAY, the 9th November, at Noon

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and

ted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. of the 8th, Specie and Parools until P.M. of the 8th. (Parcels are not to be sent on board, they must be left at the Agency's Dice)

For Particulars, regarding Freight And

Passage,

ed OS BORTRAND, Principal Agent. 14 Hongkong, October 28, 1869 00

129

Above 12 ounce and not ex-

coeding 16 ounces,

For every additional 4 oz. 12

Under 4 once,

16 centa,

Aboro 4 ounter and not ex-

ceeding 8 ounce," - 32 Above 8 ounce and not, ex-

ceeding 12 ounce, 48 Abovo 12

onnoe and not ex- ceeding 16 ounce, For every additional 4 oz., 16 Prepayment of the Postage is compulsory

in each case,

64

TW. MITCHELL, Postmaster General,

General Post Office, Hongkong, June 18, 1863.

be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Poetmaster of the Office in which it wa drawn. In suab egao a new Order, will be

ted, the Common chargeable which will be deducted from the amount of Faux the new Order..

SUPREME COUET AND CONSULAR GAZETTE.

Law RarotKB FOR THE SUPREME-IND

PROVÍNDIAL, COURTS OF CHYNAM

THE Go Cong 1 Wanie Nupa. par, containing Oireally Revised Reports ante italiso of Use heard at the Supreme and Coralar Badrupol Origami Arddon, shoes and and Proceedings in

Meetings & Bess ofthe Week, Queries on Legal points –Reports of Public Commercial Summary, 8., dors, FENERB

mounting or partion there- her such binding ale rollers in the whether of paper Books, and in Say for the safe 10-In the event of a Money Order usually appertains thereto.

transmission of literary or artistic matter or aparrying of being lost, a duplicate will F&Prary. Look fanket jupy be either with begafuted at a written application, from out a cover, as in 0.097gz SaS at the ench the Fayes, containing the necessary or sides. particulars, I and lacoahpanied by mad, Thibinot Houtsin 16 Fry" (pen|or| tional Commission) to the Office where the sealed, nor any sealed enclamire whatever; Original Urder was payable,

31.--On the receipt of a similar applica over not only permitted, tipt repommended, per 10 lings for the first insertion, and 50 tion, orders will be given to stop payment so that if the covert come off, or for anyats per 10 fino, for each subsequent inser- of a Money Offler, or to feder a lapsed other reason the packet cant be forward- tion Order. The additional Courtalasion in heed, it may be stored. last case will be deducted from the amount of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be Urter. presented with the application for a new

When it is desired that any error, in the:

n the name of the Bemitter or Payee should be corrected of that the amount of

the name and address of the sender is how Advertisements will be charged The 1

No paoket must exceed two feet in length, breadth or depth; exceeding these dimen ions it cannot be forwarded through the

A SEGARDS PATTERNS Heinlo They most not be of

of intrinsic Value. Morty Order should be repaid to the This rule excludes all artioles of a saleable Remitter, or that a Lapsod Order should nature, and indeed whatever may have 1. 1t ie heroby notified for general in which the Order was originally drawn, & pattern; and ty

belrenewed for payment in the Country in

in a value of its own, apart from its mere tige

Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance

must be

quantity of

any

sidered as having on this ground an lútín-

Bio valu.

than the address

PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,

CONTENTS AND VALUE Government of Mauritius and the Union Money Order Ufice of such Conate This not be so great that it on fairly be con

Mauritius, and between Mauritius and ference to a Lapsed Ortar, in which case the of Mails once s Month between: Ceylon and application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it hard re- Natal, having terminated, the

Comtoission will be deducted from the dence for Maurition will be forwarded this Office in the Mait for Aden, from amount of the New Order,

hence it will be sont to its destination by the French Mail Packsts leaving Aden for Reunion and Mauritius on the 23rd of each Mouth.

PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIP

COMPANY.

THROUGH V. H. HALL LINE TO NEW YORK. Via Panama or Overland Router

TEAMERS of this line will be despatch

19.

Deo. 18.

ad se follows Nov.

Chind, Steamer will leave Shanghai on or thout came date, connecting at Yokohama with above-named steamer,

Passengers ticketed through to Californing Mexico, Central and South America, and by Overland Route to principal points in the United States and Canadas, and com- zeeting with the various Steam lines for New York, to Liverpool, Southampton Bremen Brest, and Ravre,

Through Tickets issued a so to New *York did Europe via Pacama Route and to Europe per steamers of the Royal Mail Steam Poket Company, the West India and Paciffe Steamship Company, Limited, and The Compagie Générale Transatlan

No alteration has been made in the rates of Postage on correspondetice ad dressed to Mauritius,

3. As the ootamunication with Natal and the Cape of Good Hope is thus out off, the correspondience for those Colonies, unless marked to be forwarded by Frigate Ship will, in future, be sent the Mails for London at the following rates of Pustage which must be paid in advance, viz: Upon Lettert dont by way

of Southampton,..... 46 cents each When sent by way of

Marseilles,

Newspaper via Southam- pepton,

Newspapers via Marseil

15

tique from Aspinwall direct. Connectionsyonu 6. 19

made at Panama with Steam lives upon the Book Packets via South-

West Coast of Central and South Americ, atopton 10

which passengers are ticketed through

by

Repayment whether of an original or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the remitter until it has been ascertained that the advice has been can- celled at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn,jer

There must be no writing or marks other whom the packet is intended and that of of the person for the sender a trade, mark and numbers, and prices of the articles; otherwise the Facket an unpaid letter. will be detained or forwarded charged as

Shanghai, January 1867.

* NEW BOOK,

THE Spoonfations of sta

The Old Philosopher"

Translated from the Chinese

BY

JORN CHALMERS, A.M. Price $150, Also,

The Origin of the Chinese" by the saĻNIE

author

Apply At Mestre LANE, UNAWFORD & Co. or The London Mikalon Hogse. Hongkong, October 17, 1868,

FOR SALE AT THE CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.

an aggr THE following SETS of the "CHINA PUNO" can be obtained, stitched in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 cents per copy viz

No.

15.

Price.

The Patterns must be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be easy of exami nation. Samples, however, of seeds, drugs, Payment of an Order must be ob and so forth; which cannot be sent in open Month after that in which it was drawn; other material, tied at the neck bage 2014 gi satbed before the end of the Sixth Calendar covers, may be endosed in bags of linen or 11 nets co

complete from 11,

$8,60, for instance, if drawn in January, payment closed that they cannot readily be opened,

pare 16, pa su 12 25. $2,50, must be obtained before the end of July, eve be word for this purpose. Non-com- 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and froti 16 to 24. otherwise the Order will become lapsed, not be used

be transparent, must Also a few teparate copies of Nos.1, 2, and a new Order (for which a second Compliance with this rule will also subject the

C. A. SAINT, mission, to be deducted from the amount packet to be detained or forwarded as an oz. necessary.

of the Order, will be charged) will becomes unpaid letter.

SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT,

an

Ruder 4

15.—If an Order he not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn, for instance, If drawd in January and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless under peculiareuitanicas, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn

awn, think proper ZMEN

FORBES, ESQ. JOAN DENT, H. G. THOMEETE,

Esq., B.N.

Band Directora Hon. GiB, G.HBILAND, Esq.

Through Billa of Lading given for Freight, 20 conte, above 4 oz, and not ex- 16-After once paying & Money Order for the fullow ng Mail by which, in HEARD, 189..

tő

the

via Coutr 1 'Pacific Railroad and its con- Rections

· · principal points in the United States and Canada's and for Freight Overland for England and the Continent,

Through Bills of Lading given also for New York and Europe vin Pauma route,

and

to Europe via Aspinwall Lines to porta

poeding 902; and 20 cents for every additional 8 oz

Book Packets via Marseillea, 14 cents under 4 uz; 28 cents above for and not exceeding 8 oz.; and 28 cents for every additional & ounces.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General." eneral Post Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1868.

by whomsoever presented, the paying Office will not be able to any further claim. If a wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Office, the Footmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negli- gence occurs wül, if he see fit, require the Offer in fault to make good the loss.

WBACAULAY, Baq. D. SASSOON, Esq. Rev. W. IL BEACH, 3. J. MURRAY, M.D.. Committee of Management.

MACAUFAY, Esq. HG TROMSST,

Hon. W. Keswick, Chairman,

J. HELLAND, Esq. Esq., B,,

The Packets or the contents thereof must hot contain any inclost, sealed or other vise closed against inspections"!! In all other respects the general regulat tions of the Book Post between Hongkong and the United Kingdom will apply to the order to prevent any interruption to the Pattern Post Under these regulations, in regular transmission of letters, a Prokat of Patterns may, when it is necessary, be kert back

ordinary course, I would be forwarded. W. LaMANN, Esq. The

decision of Postmaster Gencrál as to the eligibility of for sample contained Ethoteln "to be" for-

Packet, Pac pattern warded under these regulations, will be W. final and conclusiven ding on coil. 6.

The rule which forbids the transmission

to through cho dat of any sticle Fably to the contents of the Mail Bags or -No Money Order will be paid unless Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the the advice has been previously received. Post Office is, of course, applicable to the 18-Additional Rules for greater sedu-Pattern Post and a packet containing any- thority of a Trosemy Warrant dated to lasing of the site is goneally will be made the following have been occasionally honteu It is hereby notified that under the suit against frand, and for the better work thing of the kind will be, stopped, std not May last, Superintending, or First Class a ocasion may require

Hent to ite

its destination. Artious atial as

Patterns and ve Schoolmasters in the army will, in future. 19. Should it appear that Money Orders unfit for the Party-rize: Metal-boxas; poros-

Petained as be entitled to the same privileges in regard are used by marcantile zien, or others, Isin and China, fruit, regetables, bunoher Gold Coit With 81 per cent aditional, at to Letters sent by or dressed to them either in the United Kingdom or at Hong- of flowers, cuttinge of plan spurs, knives and every CENA FUIS,

their own private and are at present kong Blianghai or Yokohama, for the scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, IS Medining is universally admitted | shipper's option.

Return Pasage Tickets issued at a re-enjoyed by Usimmissioned Officers in the transmission of large sums of money, the sharp pointed instrumente, samples of duction of upon the whole aniount Army and all Achoolmasters of it may be, will consider the propriety of in-bottles, pieces of glass, acids of itsble to the dinates of ludia and Chins

Schoolmistresses will British or Colonial Post Office, as the case metals, samples of hre, skiples in optitled (as Anay farther information as to Passage but the First-Class, now are) to this sathe creasing the Commission, and will exercise kinds, curty wombe, tepper and strel que and Freight Apply 16 the Agency of the privileges, in regard to their Letters, are the power of wholly suspending for a time graving platos, and confectionery of all

Praya West.

enjoyed by non-commissioned Offvers and the issue of Money Orders T. A. HARRIS, Private Soldiers, a

Agent Hongkong, October 7, 1869.

Post-Omee Notifications.

of Mexico and ports on the West Coat of Central America, and South America to às far as Valparais!)

Favorable arrangements have been made.

for through panseng orang mud Singapore, 416b; from Calcutta, Penang dan and, from Swator, Amoy and Foochar

Freight payable in advance in Mexi-

ein Dolars, for on delivery in. American

for the Round Voyage,

Company,

It is hereby notited for general informa

ba

F: W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 1868.

1-On the 1st October next, and thence,

tion that under the Provisions of a Trea- forward Money Orders will be issued at sury Warrant, which will come into opera this Office and at the Agencies thereof at

tion n the 1st October next, correspon-Shanghai and Yokohama un all the Money dence addressed to Constantinople will be forwardel at the following reduced Rates

of Postage, which must be paid in advance,

For LETTERS:

20 centa escl half-an-ounce weight.

For NewsPAPSBE, PACKETS OF PATTERNS, AND BOUKS

2 cents each two ounces up to half-powid, and 8 cents for every additional half-pound. ZA ZANGE. W, MITRALL, Code Postmaster General.

General Post Office,...

Hongkong, 23rd September, 1869.

By Command,

kinda.

61910 ALLAA

V. W. MITOHELL E. W. MITCHELL,Palm Ba Postmaster General. Postmaster General."

General Post Office, |Hongkong, "Uctober 13, 1868.

Ceneral Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.

REGISTRATION OF LETTERS AND BOOK PAOERT

-

SYSTEME EXTENDED: TO THE COAST PURIS

AND JARAN,"

OHAIR AND BOAT HIRE,

ONATIONS of Books, Periodicals, News- papers, Clothes, do, will be moat bankfully received,

A. OVERBURY, Superintendent, Hongkong, October 29, 1888.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT

to bothonost: edigions renredy known to the world. No preparation is su

as this line and invigorating medicins. I' as it is never failing in

is particularly adapted to the constitution

of

its effects in all disensus peculiar to females, while those who are attenuated by the de bilitating effects of the above climates will find in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta lisman whereby they may insure a restora tion to robust health.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT. The science of Modiome has never before The following Regulations for Street-produced any remedy that can be compared Chairs and Chair Coolies, bear date Colo to this wonderful Ointment, as it care

♦

wounds, sores, alcore, and also the most inveterate skin diseases paculiar to the oli mates of India and China. It is the true tain, old sures can be removed by it that friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as cor cannot bo bonquered by any other treat ment.

Hongkong, February 1, 1867.

Order Offices in the United Kingdom! of

It is hereby notified for general informa-ial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd after all other moans have failed, al Great Britain and Ireland, for amounte pot exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange, by order of His Excellency Sir April, 1860.

Richard Graves MacDonnell, that, the There are two Classes of Street Chairy, Current for Each Mail, and charged with system of registration has been, from this Ordinary and Special... Commission according to the following date, extended to letters and other descrip A Street Chairs may carry persons who Scale, víz, :-

Cents. tions of correspondence tritisnitted by the. For is not exceeding £2,13 Pest, in the Mails by both the British Abové £3 and not exceeding & 8.24 Contract Packets and hy Private Ships,

between this Office and eat Agency there 个

£10,48 of in China and Japan, viz: Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foocbow, Nagpa, Shang ha, Nagasaki, Hiego, and Yokohama, and also between any two of these Agencies,

The fee for registration is 3 cents each

£3

11,

12

£7.42

No Money Order to include a free tional part of a Penny.

3-Orders drawn in the United King. dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko-letter, ka

apbo

base elaged them up to any hour, but Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after first gunfire (8.), nor Special Chairs after midnight.

As Special Chairs are secured for a higher Bum (460) then Ordinary Chairs ($26), it is for the interest of the Public to engage only the former after gunfire.

Each Street Chair carries a Number, and

The Numbers and Coolles Badges of The Numbers and Coolies Badges of Special Chairs are White, (1 to 200),

notified for encral informa.bama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange No Letter, Book; or Packet of Patterns its two-Coolies a Badge each, bearing the hereby tion that henceforward closed mails for the at which Monay Orders are being issued at can be rezistered unless the full pastago same Number as the Chair,,

it, as well as this registration fee, ba United Kindom will he made up at this the time of their presentation. Offibo and forwarded to London by the Un- 4-Alphabetical Lists of over 3700 paid in advance in postage Stamps/ ited States Mail Packets via San Francisco. Money Order. Office in the United King- received up to half an hour before the time Letters, &o, for registration will be Correspondence intended to be forwarded dom, showing the Counties in which they fixed for closing the Mail

must be addressed via Ban are situated, are hung up for public refer by this route must

FW. MITCHELL ance at this Office, and also at Shanghai Francisco"

Portmaster General. Letters, Newspapers, Hooksand Patterns, and Yokohama

General Post Office, will be liable to the same rates of postage.

Hengkong, 18th October, 1668. those sent by the British Mail Packets via Southampton vi **

For Letters, 24 cants per half-ounce

For each Newspaper not exceeding 4

4

Dunces, centa

For a packet of Books or Patterns, 8 cepta per 4 ounces.

The Postage must in all cases be paid in advance; correspondenes riot fully prepaid

F. W. MITCHELL,

will be sent via Suez.......

5.-Applicants for Money Orders thus inruish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name, both of

...

سمنت

Ordinary Chairs are Bine, (201 to 700),

When ground of Complaint arises against any Street Chair Coolie, the person ag grieved may either hand the offender over to the Folice or send a memorandum of the complaint and the Chair's Number to the Registrar General,

of

NOW READY.

(AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.) PRICE $1.00.

THE

ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR

MANUAL

#

Amination of Chinese Dates, during the Handbook of reference for the deter pariod from 1860 to 1869; with comparative Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, code. Compiled by WILLIAM FREPE RICK MAYERS, H.M.C.S.

CHINESE COMMERCIAL

GUIDE.

By S, WELLS WILLIAMS, LLE

Published at the CHINA MAIL G

Hongkong.

688 FF. DENY SYD, WITH AFFENDIL, FIFTH EDITION, 1863. Price, $5.

Original Publishing Price, Ten Doliers,

The following is an Abstract of the Con- tants of this Book-

OBAP BED. I To 4. Four Treaties with China, 1.-Treaty with Great Britain,

Chinese Text of the same. 2-Treaty with the United States.. 3-Treaty with France. 4.Treaty with Russia. -

Supplementary Treaty with Russia

SIAP IL-SECG 1 TO 5. Articles of Trade with China, Tarifi on Articles of Import 2-Tariff on articles of Export

8. Rules respecting Trade and Dues,

Chinese Text of the same. Description of Articles of Impost. 5.-Description of Articles of Export.

AP. 1-8R 1 TO 14.

Foreign Commitee with China. ke-Port of Canton,

2-Port of Chauchan or Swatow, 3Port of Kingchau in Hainan. 4-Port of Anoy,

5.Port of Facchow.

6.-Ports of Tamahni and Taiwan in For

MOBA

7-Port of Nigpu

8-Port of Shanghai,

-Ports on the Yangtar and Trade is

the interior.

or

10.-Port of Targobau

11.-Port of Tientsin,

12-Port of Nowalwang or Fangtar". 14,-Colony of Macao, 15. Colony of Hongkong

06. 17. 1-TO-

Foreign Commerce with Japan. 1-Intercourse with Japan.,

2-Treaty between Great Britain and

, Japan AP

3. Parts open to Foreign Commerce.

7 Nagasaki,

Kanagawa and Bakodadi,

4-Japanese Coins, Weights and Her

-sttrea,

6.American Compact with Leweberg, OHAF. E. 1 to 7..

Moneys, Wrights, de., in China. 1.-Chinose Currency. 2.Chinese Numerals.. 3.-Chinese Commercial Weight 4-Messures of Capacity.

Measures of Length, 6.-Chincse Land Measures

7. Chinese Division of Times.

UBAP. VL-880, 1TO IL Western Moneys, Heights, de Anuanese Moneys, de. Port of Saigon, a c 3.Treaty with Siam, Tariff, &ê, Moneys, Weights, &c. anda dia. Philippine Islands.

Directions for Panay

6.-Malayan States-Bingapore, &c.

Burmose Moneys, Weights, &c. 8-Indian Frseidencies,Bengal, He

dras, Bombay. ---Ceylon,

10English and French Weights, &c 11-United States of America.

UNAP. VII. SEO. 1 TO 6. Tables on Prices, Exchanges, de. 1-Comparison of Prices. 2-Relating to Exchanges. Stelating to Time.

Measurement of Cargo. 4Comparison of Weights.

6-Bullion Operations.

APPENDIX-Containing Sailing Dine- tions for the Coast of China, and for the Japan Islands; also giving the meanings of Chinese Words occurring in Charts and Sailing Directions and sleo a Table of Fo altions of places on the Chinese and Japi nese Conats.

table

The author in his Preface saysThe in Chap. Vil., for extimating prices, measurement of goods, exchanges, do, have been selected from those constantly in use among the foreign merchants in Chint Those for calculpting the prices of tea in more extended tables, by the kind permis dollara or peace have bean copied, from the sion of the author, P. last section of the same chapter ou Move Houreiro, Lag. The ments in Bullion," has been prepared and furnished for

the Guide by Patrick B ter or Payes be & Peer or a Bishop, his order of MacDounell, that henceforward of having retained missing property, the the Rouxitter and the Payee if the Remit It is hereby notified for general intermin.

Harper, ortion, by order of His Excellency Sir Richard When Street Chair-Coalies are suspected

Esq., of the Commercial Bank of title will be suloient, if a firm,

Author's Preface.

India at Hongkong, who has had much ex- dual desiguation of such firm, such as Book Packets, and Packers of Fatteros of Number of their Chairs should he sent to

Most persons whose avocations or studies of the precious metals in Eastern Anja.

parience in the exchanges will suffice, but the Samples of Merchandize, may be trans- the Registrar General at once without any subjects are wont to confess the need of a been reprinted from the Chin Pilot and movements Baring Brothers

sre connected even remotely with Chinese

The Appendix of Sailing Directions ha singlets," of the name of a Company rad-up to be forwarded both hy this British Ench Street-Chair carries on the back pose of determining dates according to Singapore to Hakodadi are all described mera torm Mesara, ssh as Mestra. Ri-mitted through the Post by the Mails mado loss of time,

convenient manual of reference for the par- With short interruptions, the costs from ing under a title which does not consist of Contract Packets and by Private Ships, its Number Board & Tariff of Fares con- either the European or the Chinose method it; and for the Chinese coasts, the Direc the names of the pores composing it, suol between this Office and each Agency thereof densed from the following. Postmaster General.”

"Carron Co," is inadmissible. Pri

Me. Clin Chhia and Japan, siz: Canton, Swatow,

of computation; and a system of compar! ticus have been improved by the insertion The Remitter on stating that the Or. Amoy Ecochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nag- LEGALICE TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, on for the names attributed to years, of the Chinese characters for the names of der is to be paid only through a Bank, te between any two of these Agencies, at the

asaki, Higgo, and Yokohama, and also CHAIR BEARERS, AND BOAT, 1 months, and other periode is also frequent al places that could be ascertained." have the option of giving or withdrawing following rates of postage, which must be

IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG,

ly a desideratum with translators and readers the name of the Payes; in such case, the paid in advance, vie,

of Chinese literature. The com Order will be crossed in the same way that

Chairs, or Ordinary: Pullaway Boats, pilor of the following tables has thought, Cheques are commonly orossed when they Not exceeding 4 or,

Half hour,... 12 ots. Three hours, dcts. Sordingly, that sheir publication in Host,20 cta. Six hour.78 eta, much yet remains to be done for the elabo

convenient form are intended to be paid through a Bank,

may prove useful, although Above 4 oz, and not exceding Day (from 6 to 6), One Dollar.ration of comparative calendars, eto. that Night Fares (after 8 E.M.) 10 cts extra should leave nothing to be desired. With the exception of the Cyclical Table of of which were originally compiled by Dr. Years, and the Table of Solar Terms, both

improvements in Williata Commercial Morrison, and afterwards republished with Guide, from which (with some alteration) they are now cupled, the whole of the mat ter assembled in the following pages is for the frst time made accessible to general reference,

General Post Office, 1. Hongkong February 1, 1869.

ITy hereby notified that, under the pro- visions of a Treasury Warrant dated the 7th May, the Postage on a Letter not half-an-ounce in weight posted Trediag in Hongkong or at any of the Ports in China and Japan addressed to Egypt, 07

and.

- posted in Egypt addressed & Hougtong or

conveyed in tlie Meile by British

cents,

7.Whan an Order le presented through

14

& Bank, a receipt by any person will be suf ficient, provided the Order be crossed with

Above 8 oz, and not exceeding

1 lb......

24

36

ty of the Ports in China snit Jet, is the name of the receiving Bank, and be

Dents

60

Chair Bire to Out Districts. Beyond Victoria and back, 50 cts. per man, To Stanley and back,

Vistoria lips below the level of Robinson Every additional 4 lb.,... 18 Road, and includes all the town between Special attention is directed to the folthe Mint and the Western Slaughter House, lowing rules and regulations which will be with the Race-COUTER, strictly enforced-

Licensed Bearers (each).

Foduced from Twenty-four Couts to Twelve presented by some Ferson known to be in Above 1 lb., and not exceeding

the employ of such Bank,

11... For Lotters exceeding half-au-punce in 8The signature of the Payee of a Mo. Weight is further rate of Twelve Cente forney Order to he affixed to the Order in the Bach half ounce is chargeable.

place provided for the purpose. If the Prapayment of the Pustage is compulsory. Paree he unable to write le innst sign the F W. MITCHELL, receipt by making his mark in the presence Postmaster General of a Witness, who must sign his nante, with bis address in the presence of the Officer General Post Office, Hongkong, July 15, 1888,

who pays the Order,

AB-RBUARDS BOOKS,

*

A. Book Packet may contain any number of separate Books, Almanacks, Mapa or

Hour, Half day, Dayser

PAN

... 8 cents. 20 cent 88 cente

Published by C. A, Saint, China Mall Odice, Hongkon

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CHARLES A, BAINT, (Zats & Shortride & Co.) China Mail Ofles, Jan. 6, 1888.

For Sale.

The Hongkong Signals,

Also

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