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Insurances ITALS

NOTICE

INSURANCE

T10:

Al Bates for FIER INSURAROS

us classes of Buildings and ther

I remain as followsamakil furiz

nd semi-detached

Houses (removed

Town) and their u

ing-Houses (atmi-

ated) and their per cent.

odpwar and their gallarbon

by special arrangementeroniteqo ing rates will be charged for Policies amb 50 km

g 10 days per cent.Jau prekasa

per cont

by

Month

receding per centoull se

ths,

Montan ceeding

Montba

per cont

The full Amount Rate

of 1 per cent. ROBS WALKER & 60 mts Royal Insurance Company!!

September 131 1860243 LEINSURANTE FOUR

for the above THAT FORWA

prepared to accept

sus Policing on any findin le or Steamers on the dad! is in case of loss, in Outsah ALJUTTA, BOMBAY OF LOrpon S. WALKER

SURANCE COMPANY OF AN FRANCISCO, di bor signed, Agents for the phot ste prepared to imant Polli FIRE, on BUILDINGS" and arrent rates, 2

HUSSELL CAS Bobruary 6, 1867:30 bezel

SEA & FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY. ad fail

igned having been appointed n Hongkong for the Abora NY are prepared to For SKA RISKS, AU CUFFERVATO

RUSSELL & 06,

aukinn

April 1, 1885,

INSURANCE ASSOCIA

OF

granted on farle

of the world at current rates,

to the nenal brokerage. This

etartis to the satured Fifteen

te yearly profits divided pre

t premium contributed,

RUSSELL & Co

Secretaries June 4, 1860ed cur

INSURANCE COMPARE SAN FRANCISCOFi29, 201 Dear an tai gist igned having been appointe

China for, the above Insta- gars prepared to grant Full- Marino Risks, at the current

FUSSELL & do?” berdind

July 6, 1880

ARANG SEA ANDoie URANCE COMPANY OF SAMARANG, I vågge signed having been apposites a Macao for the above named prepared to "grafie Policies no Kisks at the current Rata

RAYNAL & Cár must 4. 1866, cea mai reze FOOSTERLING DIE IN STRE INSURANCE COM-!" NY OF BATAVIASI MUP- Jan joase, hiasan Tert signed having been clinsa, been appointed Hongkong for the

MAICA Prepared Vote

are

Ses Binks on the ele

SIEMS8 Nutle August 1, 1866. hamnos

Docks, 400 21 ~

N DOOK COMPANTOF

& WHAMPOA, LIMITED.

Any call the attention of Ship Consignees And Master of Ampoe for the DUCKING.

Establishment NG of Vessels of 31, 199

"the Company' have the the harbour Uranite brity and of dimebaton to

of 360 feet in longthiand

t of waterfail-trakty,

it the Company have ch

lery, and are prerary M repair marine andʻstati

Ad Steam Machiber + SPE

o and repair Boilers of all

pery for auga czuahing and ing, graving, and every de story or Mill worked

detty has been completed, ich Vessels drawn 18 feet eat any states of the ide

Vetty are Shears capable of

jy have also opened mBhip.

fe of the Hongkong Trocks

to contract for the con

or Bailing Vessel

the Company will take

wiet

üg“ LITTLE ORPHAN" 1-10 tow Vessels to you, or reasonable rate. not

·Secreld!

ffice, Queen's Rouf

November 1, 186NIES HAV

Faled by Omneza AKKAS Croprietor, at Non MyWyat Victoria, Hongkong

No. 2018 NOVEMBER 25, 1869.

Post-Jilice Notifications.

MAILS BY THE ORISSA The Contract Packet ORISSA" will be dispatched with the usual Mails for 2 Karupe, ie, on TUESDAY, the 30th November at By; and the Post Best? (five willbe open for the reception of Ordinary Letters Letters for Registras Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle,tion Newspapers, Books, &c, until 8

Aden, Suez, Malts, Marseilles,

O2 on the 24th November. Letters sadi, o be posted in the night, bo and Southampton;

1% from 82 m on the 29th November until İkiməọnəthe following morning.

STEAM FOR

ALSO,

HE CHINA

Fost-Office Notifications:

Should the Payee of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the Country in which the Order was issued, st une other Uttice than that in which the Order was eri-

Prints, and any quantity of per vellum or parchment (to the exclusion of letters whether sealed or open); and the Books, Mapa, Paper, de, may be either printed, written or plais, or any mixture of the three..

ginally drawst the transfor will be granted All legitimate binding, mounting or

provided the Order be inclosed to the Postinaster of the Office in which it was drawn. In euch case a new Order will be issed, liu Commission shargeable upon which will be deducted from the smoult, of the now Order.

covering of the same or of a portion there

will be allowed, whether sach binding of be local Gelato alert the case of prints, sarkers (whether of paper or otherwise,) in the case of Books, and f short whatever is necessary for the safe tranamission of literary or artistic matter cr

fatimations.

ubushed weekly. Subscription (Excln- avo of postage) Tls. 12 por anuum; payable in advanco.

SUPREME COURT AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, LFPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA ANA JAPAN,

Intimations.

THE

CHINESE COMMERCIAL

GUIDE.

BS. WELLS WILLIAMS, LL

Published at the "CHINA MAIL" Oce, Hongkong.

411 Letters posted between 7 and 8 miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate wisually appertaing Kereta hamausing Courts, Police Cases and Proceedings isle to OX

Welt on the 50th Novoinber will be charge Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta

able, in addition to the usual postage BE PENINSULAE AND OFINSTAL UIRAM with a Late Feet 18 cette

NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam-ship The latest time for posting Letters at this "ORINSA," Captain W. D. ANDERSON,Officefis, and for Newspapers With Her Majesty's Marle, Panengers, Specie Books, or Patterne AM on the 30th #nd Cargo, will leave this for the above November.

out, a cover, or in a cover open at the ends

Every Book Faber mitst be either or sites.

2

THE Gazette isa General Weekly Newspa- per, containing Ufficially Revised Reports

Bankraptoy. Original Articles; Notes and of Cases beard at the Supreme and Consular

Summary, do, do Queries on Legal points; Reports of Public Meetings; News of the Week, Commercial

10. In the event of a Money Order be granted on's written application, from the Payee, (containing the necessary particular, and accompanied by an addi- tional Commission) to the Office, where the sealed, nor any staled enclosure whatever; It must not contain any letter, open or Original Order was payable,

the name and address of the sender is how- 11. On the receipt of a similar applica ver notionly permitted but recommended, tion, order will be given to stop payments that if the cover come off, or for any places, on TUESDAY, the 30th November Further, late letters (bat lafters only) ad- of a Money Order, or to réitéw"a lapsed other reason the packet cannot be forward- tion.

rossed to the United Kingdom vi Mareilles or to Singapore, may be last case will be deducted from the amount

Order ***The additional Commation in the ed, it may be returned. posted on board the suket from 9:30r the new ordered Orders must be to 8.00 4. pyment of a late fee preaunted with the application for a new of 48 cents each, in addition to the Order postage, after which no Letters can be received.

TMI P

BAM.

PARCELS and CABGO vill he received

on board until Noun) and SPECIE until

4 P.M. on the 29th November

For particulars regarding Braight and * Passage, apply at the 7, & 0. 3. N., Co.'s "Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS ANU VALUE OF PACKAGES

AMA REQUIRED.

dejt written declaration of the Ponteafs hd

Falue of the Packages for the Overland Route

is required by the Egyptian Government, and

Sealed Boxes containing the correspondence of Box Holders wil be received at the window est shart for the purpose, ou the East Bide of the building correspondente for places to which payment is compulsory must be prepaid in Hongkong Postage Stampa.

All

No packet ist dxceed two feet in length, breadth or depths exceeding these dimen mot cannot be forwarded through the

•

AS BEGARDS PATTERNS. They mast not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have as a pattern; and the quantity of any value of its own, spart from its mere pse material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it was fairly be con sidered as having on this ground an intrin sic valu..

make other

12-But when it is desired that any abould be corrected or that the amount of error in the name of the Remitter or Payce;

Money Order should be repaid to the Beauitter, or that a Lapsed Order: should pre-which tha: Order was originally drawn, be zenewed for payment in the Country in application must be made to the Chief Money Order Office of auch Country This application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it have re- ference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the amount of the New Order.

18-Repayment whether of an original, or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be male to the remitter until it has beau celled at the Office on which the Order was ascertained that the advice has been cap- originally drawn. ALL PERSONER

There must be no writing or

per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 Advertisements will be charged Tis. 1 ets. per 10 bines, for each subsequent inser

Shanghai, January, 1867.

HE Speculations of

NEW BOOK,

*The Old Philosopher!

LAU-TUZE. Translated from the Chinese

-BY

JOHN CHALMERS, 4.1.

ALSO,

"The Origin of the Chiusse" by the same author: Price $1.

Apply at Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD, & Co. or The London Mission House,

charged with a fine of One Shilling Commission will be deducted from the than the address of the person for Hongkong, October 17, 1868,

must be delivered by the Shippers to the ComInsuficiente stamped Letters addressed to pany's Agents with the Bill of Lading, or

the United Kingdom will be went on with Parcels and the Company do not hold themetites responsible for any demison of Derudice which gani happens from cinemakit

news on much declaration

Shippers are particularly requested to noté the terms and conditions of the Company's Black Bills of Lading

W. MACAULAY, Superintendent.

P. ¿0. 8, N. Co.'s Office,

Hongkong, Nov. 23, 1800, -

NOTICE

no30

COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MA- RITIMES DES, MESSAGEBIES IMPERIALES.

·PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANÇAIS.

STRAW TOK

addition to the postage, Letters posted, after 7 on the 30th November will not be forwarded unless the Late Fee as well as the postage is

prepaid

whom the packet is intended and that of the sender, a trade mark and numbers, and prices of the articles; otherwise the Patket will bo detained. or forwarded charged as un ungaid letter

FOR SALE

AT THE CHINA MAIL" OFFICE THE following "SETS of the "CHINA The Patterns must be seat in Covers PUNOH" can be obtained, stitched. open at the ends, so as to be easy of exami in paper wrappers, at the rate of 25 centa Bation. Samples, however, of seeds, drugs, per copy viz!-- and so forth, which cannot be sent in open

No. covers, may be enclosed in bags of linen or other material, tied at the neck; bags so

20 4 cleaed that they cannot readily be opened, even although they be transparent, must

17 sets complete from 11.

رو

Price

"

11

$3.50. $2.50, $2:26. Also a fow operate copies of Nos.1, 2.

OA. SAINT.

15. 16.

Letters insufficiently stamped or unatamped

addressed to places to which they can not be forwarded unpaid, will be open- ed and returao to the writers as early.

14 Payment of an Order, must be ob de possible, but no guarantes ein beaned before the end of the Sixth Calendar given that such Letters, if posted after Mopil after that in which it was drawn BP.M. on this 20th November will be re-for instance, if drawn in January, payinent turned until after the mail is closed.

must be obtained before the end of July, Postage Stamps rabould be placed on the otherwise the Order will become lapsed, not be used for this purpose. Non-com- 8, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and from 18 to 24.

upper right hand corner of the corres and a new Order (for which & second Compliance with this rule will also subject the mission, to be deducted from the amount packet to he detained or forwarded as an pondence, except in cases where may be naed in payment of Late Pons, of the Order, will be charged) will become unpaid kter, when the Stamp or Stamps represent-ecessary. ing "Late Feas or Registration 16--1f an Order be not paid before the Fees should be placed on the lower loft end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after hand corner.

that in which it was drawn for instance,

The Packets or the contents thereof must not contain any inclosure, sealed or othet- wise losed against inspection.

In all other respects the general regula All transactions in fractional parts of a Dol-if drawn in January and not-paid before tions of the Book Post, between Hongkong lar will be conducted in the Coins pre- the end of the following January-all claim and the United Kingdom will apply to the scribed by Ordinance 1, of 1864, and to the Money will be forfeited, anless, Pattern Post. Under these regulations, in the Proclamation of the 22nd January, under peculiar sircumstances, the Post order to prevent any interruption to the 1564, and no other Coins, but those Ofice of the Country in which the Order regular transmission of letters, a Packet of therein specified will either be received was drawn shink proper to allow it. Patterna may, when tie angessary, he kept Tor given in change as freotional parte

of & Dollar

16. After once paying a Money Order back for the following Mail by which, in the ordinary course, it would be forwarded. by whomsoever presented, the paying Office Paymail for Postage Stamps must be merle will not be liable to any further claita. If

The decision of the Postmaster General in the current Dollars of the Colony or wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Oficer of Money Orders on any of the "Money Order the Post Office, the Postmaster General of Offices in the United Kingdom will be the Country or Colony in which the negli granted until 6 PM on the 29th Nov,gence decars will, if he see fit, require the THE Company's Steat-ship "CAM-debuda pugnt BWTCHELL,

BODGE, Commandant DE L'ESCALE

SAIGON, SINGAPORE,” BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ,

ALEXANDRIA MESSINA, "MARSEILLES, Acão,

BOMBAY, PONDICHERY, MADRAS,

HÅND CALOUTTA.

THE

will leave this Port for the above places with MALLS, PASSENGERS, EPECIE, and CARGO, on TUESDAY, the 7th of Desember, at Neon

Cargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit trough Marseilles for the principal places of Europe,

Cargo will be received pa, board until 4

.. of the 6th; Specie and Parcela mutil of the 6th. (Parcels are not to be sek bad, thug mitat: be left at the

Agenor's Office.)

For Particulars regarding Freight and Passage apply at the Company's office, Hongkong,

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,

BERTRAND, Prinapal Agent: Hongkong, November 24, 1809.; de7

PACIFIO MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.

THROUGH U. 3. MAIL LINH TO NEW YORK,

Via Panama or Overland Boite:

Jed as follows M

1870

Bank Notes,

Fastmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong,

November 23, 1869,

3000;

It is hereby notified that, under the au- thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the lat May inst, Superintending, or First-Olana Schoolmasteran the Army will, in Future, to Letters sent by or addressed to them on be entitled to the same privileges in regard

at prosent

as are at

their own private Bffairs enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the Army; and all Army Schoolmistresses will bo entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all but the First-Class now are) to the same privileges, in regard to their Letters, are enjoyed by non-commissioned (cers and Privato Soldiersų 1144

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

1-On the 1st October nest, and thence- forward Mousy Orders will be issued at this Offico and at the Agencies thereof at

Order. Offices in the United Kingdom of Groat Britain and

at the rate of Exchange Carront for Epal Mail, en charged with Commission according to the following Scale, viz,

Cents.

a

as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern or sample contained therein, to be for warded under these regulations, will be

final

and conclusive,

The rule which forbids the transmission-

through the Post of any article likely Officer in fault to make good the los

17. No Moucy Order wi be paid unless Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the injure the contents of the Mail Bags or the advice has been previously received: Prat Úffice is, course, applicable to the

18. Additional Rules for greater secu-Pattern Post; and a packet containing any ing of the system generally will be made asut to its destination Articles such he rity against fraud, and for the better work-shing of the kind will be stopped, and not As occasion may require.

the following have been occasionally posted

of

19.Should it appear that Money Orders Patterns, and have been detallet he either in the United Kingdom or at. Hong flowers, dutting of Manta, apura, knives, are used by mercantile mou, or others, fit for the Post, viz: Metal boxes, porce- lain and China, fruitables, bunches long, Shanghai or Vokobans, for the more, needles, pins, picous of machinery, transmission of large sums of money the sharp pointed instruments, samples of British or Colonial Post Office, as the case metals, samples of ore, samples in glass may be, will consider the propriety of in- bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various the power of wholly adspending for a tinte kinde, carry combs, supper and steel ear creasing the Commission, and will exercise

the issue of Money Ordera.

graving plates, and confectionery of all

By Command,'

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster Generali General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868,

REGISTRATION OF LETTERS AND BOOK PACKET SYSTEME EXTENSÉñTO THE COAST PORTA AND JAPAN,

kiuds,

SAILORS ROME, WEST POINT.

Trustees.

HOD. W. KESWICK, FORBES, Esq.

JOAN BENT,

B. G. THOMSETT,

Eeg., B.N.

Directors

on. B. B. Glee, G. JHELLAND, Eag. G, BEARD, Esq. W. LEMANN, Esq.

W. MACAULAY, Esq. D. SASSOON, ESQ. Rev. W. K. BEACH. URRAY, M..

Committee of Management Ho W. KERWIDE, Chairman. W. MACAULAY, Esq. H. G. THOMSETT, GJALLAND, Esq. Esq., R.N.

ONANIONS of Books, Periodicala, Newa

papors, Clothes, do, will be most hankfully received.

A. OVERBURY, Superintendent.

Hongkong, October 29, 1868.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

THIS Medicine is universally admitte

is

known to the world. No-preparation is si suitable to the climates of fudia and Ubine as this fine and invigorating, medicine. It particularly adapted to the constitution of European ladies, as i it is never failing ir its effects in all diseases peculiar to females. F. W. MITCHELL, while those who are attenuated by the de Postmaster General.bilitating effects of the above cliniates will find in this wonderful remedy a kind of ta liaruhi whereby they may insure a restora tion to robust health

to be the most efficacions remedy

General Post Office, Hongkong, October 13, 1869.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.

CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE,

The science of Medicine has never before % produced any remedy that can be compared The following Regulations for Street to this wonderful Ointment, as it cares

Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money hereby notified for general informa Chairs and Chair-Coolies, bear dato Culo after all other means have failed, ali "TEAMERS DI thin lino will be despatch exceding £10 land for amounts not tion, by order of His Excellency Sir bial Secretary's Office, "Hongkong, 2nd wounds, sores, utors, and also the most

Richard Graved MacDonnell, that the April, 1869.

inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the eli system of registration has been, from this All Street-Chairs may carry persons who mates of India and China. It is the true date, oftelided to letters and other descrip- have engaged them up to any hour, but tain old sores can be removed by it that friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as cer tions of correspondence transmitted by the Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after Post, in the Mails by both the British first gunfire (8 r.), nor Special Chairs cannot be conquered by any other treat Contract Packets and by Private Ships, after midnight... between this Office and each Agency there- As Special Chairs are secured for higher

Hongkong, February 1, 1867. China and Japan, viz: Canton,gum ($50) than Ordinary Chairs ($25), it Swatow Amoy Foochow Ningpo, Shang-

Nagasaki, Hiogo, and Yokohama, and is for the interest of the Public to engage also between any two of these Agencies,

only the former after gunfire. The fee for registration is 8 cents oach letter, o

Great Republic, Jau 10 China, Heb

A Stascaer will leave Shanghai on or about esine date, connecting at Yokohams with above-named steamer.

Passengers ticketed trough to California, Mexico, Centrst and South America, d by dyrland Epure to pringin pointa in The Unijed States and Canada, and our Alecting ith the various Steam lines for New York, to Liverpool, Couthampton, Brumen, Brest, and Havre.

For sums not exceeding $2.12 Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5.....24

£10,....48 -No Money Order to include a frac-hai, tional part of a Petry,

ور

No Letter, Book, or Packet of Patterns can be registered unless the full postage upon it as well as the registration fes be paid in advance in postage Stamps.

received up to half an hour before the time. Letters, dc, for registration will be red for losing the Mails.

F. W. MITCHELL Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th October, 1800. '.

Each Street Chair carries à Number, and its two Coblies a Badge each, bearing the same Number as tile Chair

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

Ordinary Chairs are Bise (201 to 709).

The Numbers and Coolies Badges of

When ground of Complaint arises against

ment.

NOW READY.

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

THE

MANUAL

ANGLO-CHINESE "CALENDAR

aby Street Chair-Coolie, the person agudbook of reference for the deter grieved may either hand the offender over period from 1860 to 1869; with coinparative mination of Chinese Dates, during the to the Police, or send a memorandum of Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, the complaint and the Chair's Number to te&o. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE the Registrar General

KICK MAVERS, H.M.C.§.

3-Orders drawn in the United King- dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko- hama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.

4Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Through Tickets inaned also to New Money Order Offices in the United King York and Europe via Panama Route and de-showing-the-Counties in which they to Europe per ateamers of the Royal Mail are situated, are hung up for public refer- Steam Fisket Company, the West In is ance at this Office, and also at Shanghai and Pacific Steamship Company Limited and The Compagnie Généralo Tronautlan- ique from Aspinwall direct. Connections. bade at Panama with Steam linge upon the West Coast of Central and South America, by which passengers are ticketed through, the Remitter and the Payee if the Remit It is hereby notified for general informa

Whet Street Chair-Coolies are suspected ter or Payes

8 be a Peer or a Bishop, his ortion, by order of His Excellency Sir Richard of having retained missing property, the Through Balls of Lading given for Freightdinary title will be suficient, if a arm, the Graves MacDonnell, that henceforward Number of their Chair should be sent to Tie Ceatr Pacific Railroad and its con unnal designation of sich firm, such as Book Packete, and Packets of Patterns or the Registrar General at once without any factions to the principal points in the Baring Brothers" will sulice; but the Samples of Merchandize, may be trans: loss of time. United States and Canndas and for Freight mere term Mesh, such as "Masers. Ri-mitted through the Post by the Mails tande Overland for England and the Continent. min, or the name of a Company trid- up to be forwarded both by the British its Number Board a Tariff of Fares con Each Street-Chair carride on the back of Through Bill of Lading given also for ing under a title which does not consist of Contract Packets and by Private Stips, densed from the following. NewYork and Europe via Paunis route, the names of the persone composing it, sock between this Office and each Agency thereof and to Europe via Aspinwall Laces to porte as "Carron Co. is inadinissible.

and Yokohama dalaga TRA

6Applicants for Money Orders must furtish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of oue Christian name, both of

636 PY. OKNY SVG. WITH APPENDIX,

FIFTH EDITION, 1869, Price, $5

Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollard-

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

CHAP. --SKO. 1 TO 4. Four Treaties with China. 1.-Treaty with Great Britain,

!!!

Chinese Text of the same.

2Treaty with the United States. 3-Treaty with France. 4.--Treaty with Russia.

Supplementary Treaty with Russia.

OHAF. II.-9. 1 To 5 Articles of Trade with Chino, 1-Tariff on Arutler R 2-Tariff on Articles of Export. 5.-Raler respecting Trade and Dues,

Chinese Text of the same. 4.Dizoription of Articles of Import. 5.-Description of Articles of Export

#SARY III.—BC: 1 To-14. Foreign Commerce with Chino. 1.Port is Canton.

2-Port of Chauchau or Swatow,

3 Port of Kiungohan in Hazikud,

Port of amoy.

5-Port of Foochow.

6.--Ports of Tamshui and Taiwan in For

10.

7.--Port of Ningpo.

8.Port of Shanghai.

B-Porta on the Yangtz and Trade in

the interior.

10-Port of Tangchau ar Chefoo. 11-Port of Tientsin 12-Port of Newchwang or Yangtar, 13.Colony of Hongkong. 14.-Colony of Macao,

HAR. IV. --BEG 1rod. "1

Foreign Commerce with Japan 1-Intercourse with Japan.

2.-Treaty between Great Britain and

Japan..

3-Ports open to Foreign Commerce.

Nagasaki.

Kanagawa and Hakodadi. 4Japanese Coins, Weights and Moa-

sures,

6.Americau Compact with Lowcherg.

ROMAT, V.—SZE 1 TO 7... Moneys, Weights, do, in China.

Chiness Currency. 2-Chinese-Numerals, 3-Chinese Commercial Weights. 4.-Messures of Capacity. 5-Mensates of Length.... 6 Chinese Land Measures 7.-Chinese Division of Times.

CHAP. VI. BEC, 1 TO 11 *Western Moneys, Weights," "de" 1.-Annamese Mopeys, &c. 2.--Port of Saigon. 3.-Treaty with Siaw, Tariff) &,

Siamese Moneys, Weights, &a- 4-Netherlands India 5.-Philippine Islands. . #in

Sailing Directions for Panay:I. r* 6-Malayan States-Singapore, &c. 7-Burmese Moneys, Weights, do 8.-Indian Presidencies,Bengal, Ma

dras, Bombay

9.--Ceylon

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

CHAP VIL--BRO. 1 zo 6. ***Tables on Prices, Szchanges, de.

1 Comparison of Prices. 2.-Relating to Exchanges. 3-Relating to Time. 4-Comparison of Weights.-

Measurement of Cargo, 6.--Bullion Operations.

APPENDIX-Containing Sailing Direc tions for the Coast of Chins, and for the Japan lalauds

also giving the meatings of Chinese Wards occurring in Charts and Sailing Directions; and also a Table of Po sitions of places on the Chinese and Japa nese Coasts,

in

The

The author in his Preface says: The tables in Chap. VII., for estimating prices, measurement of goods, exchanges, &c. have been selected from those constantly in use among the foreign merchants in China. Those for calculating the

prices of tea dollars or pence have been copied from the zion of the author, P. Laureiro, Esq., more catended tables, by the kind.permis last section of the same chapter on Move- ments in Bullion," has been mapared and furnished for the Guide by Patrick Re Harper, Esq. of the Commercial Bank of India at Hongkong, who has had much ex- Author's Preface,

perience in the exchanges and movements Most persons whose avocationa or studies of the precious metals in Eastern Asia are connected even remotely with Chinese "The Appendix of Bailing Directions ha pose of determining dates according to Singapore to Hakudadi are all described in subjects are wont to confess the need of s been reprinted from the

Ching Phot convenient manual of reference for the pur- With short interruptions, the consta from

son for the names attributed to years, of the Chinese characters for the names of either the European or the Chinese method it; and for the Chinese coasts, the Direc of computation; and a system of compari- tions have been improved by the insertion months, and other perioda is also frequent all places that could be ascertained." ly a desideratum with translators and readers of Chinese literature. The com Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Boats. piles of the following tables has thought, Hour 20.cts. Six hours,75 cla Half hour,...12 atd. Three hours,..50 ota. accordingly, that their publication in a convenient form may prove useful, although Day (from 6 to 8) One Dollar,mush yet remains to be done for the elabo Night Fares (after 5.M.) 10 eta, extra ration of comparative calendare, eta, that should leave nothing to be desired. With the exception of the Cyclical Table of Years and the Table of Solar Terma, both To Stanley and back,

of were originally compiled by Dr. Morrison, and afterwards republished with Victoria lies below the level of Robinson improvemente in Williates Commercial &-The signature of the Payes of a Me-Every additional bayarolin a; 13 -9,

Rose, and includes all the towb between Guide, from which (with some alteration) For further information as to Passage aey Order to be afixed to the Order in the Special attention is directed to the fol. the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, they are how copied, the whole of the mat-

Fayes be unable to write he must sign the strictly enforced :- plaos provided for the purpose. If the lowing rules and regulations which will be with the Race-coureenste

gopt by making his mark in the prosence

, sue in China and Japan, viz.: Canton, walow, LeuALUED TARIFF OF FARES FOR GRATES,

Amoy,

Focchow, Ningpo, Shanghal Neg

of Mexico and parts on the West Coast of 6-The Remitter on stating that the Osaki, Hiogo, and Yokohama, and also Central America, and South America to aser is to be paid, only through a Bar, to between any two of these Agencies, at the far as Valparaiso

late the option of giving or withdrawing #ayurable arrangements have been made the name of the Payes in arch case, the following rates of postage, which must be for rough passengers and freight to Ame

paid in alivanos, vis, perquila land long. Hoa, from Calents, Pedang and Singapore

Not exceeding 48 and, from Swatow, Anuvy and Foochow

Above 4 and not exceding

All Freight payable in aduce in Maxi- dan Dollars, or un delivery n American

Order will be grossed in the same way that Cheques are commonly orcased when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.

When an Order is presented through Bank, & receipt by any person will be aut Above 3 oz, and not exceeding Gold Coin with 8 per cent ad itionalfat acient, provided the Order he crossed with shipper's option,

the name of the receiving Bank, and be feturn Passage Tickets leued at a represented by some Person known to be in: Above 1 lby and not exceeding duction of open the whole amount the employ of such Bank

for the Bound yagu.

and Fraight, apply to the Agacy of the Company, Praya West.

TA HARRIS,

Agent. 1100gkting, October 7, 1880,

of a Vitness who must sign his name with

his address in this presence of the Offer

who pays the Order

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IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG,

Chair Hire to Out Districts. Bevend Victoria and back, 50ets, periman.

80

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Licensed Bearers (each).

A Book Packet may contain any number

of separate Books, Aimangok, Map.or

Hour, Half day, Day:

8 centa,

20 cents.

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Pablished by C. X. Saint, China Mall Office, Hongkong

Orders may be sent through any of the China Mail Agenta, or direct to:

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