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CEMBER 8,1860,

arances.

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URANCE COMPANY tos for Fizz ISTRATOR es of Buildings and their in as follows, will fur

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URANCE OFFICE. bhaving been soupLAMMAT

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ared to accept Marine licies on any first class

Steamers on the usual

case of lows, in TABOMBAY,

8 WALKER & Vor 21-1864

NOE COMPANY UB ANCISCO.sk -

Agent for the above repared to grant Poli on BUILDINGSB and rates

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RUSSELL & Co. ary 6, 1867

FIRE INSURANOR PANYERTE Ene

having been appointed gkong for the above prepared to grant Pod: ISKS, at currentrates. RUSSELL & Co.

FRANCE, A8800LA, SHANGHAIwudg

1- on Marine Fisks to world at current rates. usual brokerage, this i to the assured Fiftien by profits divided pro uza contributedir. -RUSSELL & Co.

Secretaries) 1869.00 uu

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waving been appointed for the above InSUES repared to grant Poli Risks, at the barrent

EUSSELL & Co

1866

SEA AND...

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having been appointed for the above named od to grant Policies

at the current Rated

RAVNAL & Contr 1866.

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IEMSSEN & Co..

1866.

18.

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he attention of Ship bees and Mastark of

blishment, at Hongy for the DOCK IN Fessels of all glamor Company hay the arbour, Grafite

id2 of "dimensioza 40

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A WALKE Becretary

Road, Cornbr

11869.

No. 2120DECEMBER 8, 1860.]

STEAM FOR..

O

Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle, Aden, Sues, Maita, liarseilles, and Southampton; Bombay, Madras, Valentte, King George's Sound, Melbourne and

Sydney,

THE PENINSULAY AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Steam-ship TRAVANCORE" Captain C. MANY WET, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengere, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the abore places, on TUESDAY, the 14th Dewbern Arzum mang va qan

received

PARCELS and CARGO will be

on board until Noon, and SPECIE until For particulars regarding Freight and Ons Hougkong,

P.. on the 13th Debethber

Post-Office Notifications.

ing Late Fees" or Registration Beds should be placed on the lower left hand corner

THE CHINA MATE

Post-Oflee Notifications.

case of prints, markers (whether of geper or otherwise,) in the case of Books, madaip short whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter or usually appertains thereto.

9. Should the Payso of a Money Order eaire to receive payment in the Country in Which

the Order was issued, at some other Office than that in which the Order was ori ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, out a cover, or in a cover open at the ends Every Book packet must be either with Joostmaster of the Office in which to write offers gulbTS it It must not contain any letter, opon D

All transactions in fractionsi parts of a Dol lar will be conducted in the Coins pro

Intimations.

Published weekly--Subscription (Excla sive of postage) Tla. 12 per annum ; payable

in advance.

SUPREME COURT

AND CONSULAR GAZETTE

KETORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTH OF CHINA

the Exclaration of the 22nd drawn. In such case a new Order will be scaled, nor any sealed enclosure whatever?

no other Coins, but those prompecified, will either be received, issned, the Commission chargeable upon the name and address of the sender is how of-mchango sa fractional parthich will be deducted from the amount of ever not only permitted but foëdratrendedi kisa(STORY AND JAPAN... Payger stage Stampe Lust be made 10. In the event of a Money Under other reason the packet cannot be forward-

the new Order

to that if the cover come all or fax ny.

195

in the current Dollars of the Colony or carrying or being lost, duplicate willed, it may be returned. Wad of Cases heard at the Supreme and Consular Bank Notes,

Money Orders on any of the Money Order, Unges in the United Kingdom will be a FW Gas

10 PM on the 13th Dec

Postmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong,

-December 6, 1860-

del

be granted on written application from the Payee, containing the necessary tonal Commission) to the Office where the Partionlars, and companied by an addi 11-On the receipt of a similar applic: Original Order was payable. tion, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed Order. The additional Commission in the it in hereby notified for general inford of the her Order Lapsed. Orders must be last case will be deducted from the amount tion that under the Provisions of a Tree-presented with the application for a new sary Warrant, which will come into opera Order..**

one attressed to Constantinople will be forwarded at the following reduced Rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance, viz

breadth or depth; exiteding these dimen No packet must exceed two feet in length,

Post **** mione it cannot be forwarded through the

They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule, proludes all, articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have value of its own, apart from its mere use material sent estensibly as a pattern must as a pattern; and the quantity of any not be so great that it tan fairly be con

AS REGARDS PATTERNS.

aidered as

HE Gazette isa General Weekly Nekapa per, containing Officially Revised Reports

Bankruptcy; Original Articles; Notes and Courts, Police. Cases, and Proceedings in Queries on Legal points; Reports of Publio Meetings; News of the Week, Commercia] Summary, de, de 8293

per 10 lines, for the first insertion, and 50 Advertisements will be charged Ts, 1. ta per 10 lines, for each subsequent inser tion,

Shanghai, January, 1867,

NEW BOOK,

Passage, apply at the P. & U, B. N. Co.'s on on the lat. October next, dorrespon- |,4,12,--Bot when it is desired that any ic valuing on this ground an zatrip/HE Speculations of

· CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES

ALE REQUIRED.

A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the hyptian Goverment, and at he delivered by the Shippers to the Com pany's Agents with the Bills of Uriding, or with Parels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any detention of

which prejudice may happen from correct nus of bich declaration, the Bullende

emppers are particularly requested to vote the terms and conditions of the Company's Back Bills of Ludingto

W. MACAULAT, Superintendent. F.&O. B. N. Co.'s Office,

Hongkong, Dec. 6, 1860,

PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SHIP

COMPANY.

de14

THROUGH U. 8. MAIL LINE TO NEW YORK. Fia Panama or Overland Route.

TEAMERS of this line will be despatch

follows, anode

Deo. 18 1870,

America,

For LETTERS

For NEWSPAPEER, PAOKKIS OF PATTERNS, 20 cents sach half-an-ounce weight.

49ARD Books

error in the name of the Remitter or Payes should be corrected or that the amount of a Money Order should be repaid to the Remitter, or list a Lepsod Order should be renewed for payment in the Country in application must be made to the Chief which the Order was originally drawn, Money Order Office of such Country

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

The Old Philosopher'

· Lau-T8zx,”! Translated from the Chinese

BY

JOHN CHALMERS, A¡M, Price $1.50, ALSO,

The Patterns must be sent in cover. The Origin of the Chinese" by the same 2 cents each two ounces up to half pound,pplication must be accompanied by an open at the ends, su as to be easy of examianthor: Frico $1. and 8 centy for every additional hall-pound, additional Commission, unless it have re-nation. Samples, however, of seeds, druga, Apply at Menors LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

ference to Lapsed Order, in which case the and so forth, which cannot be sent in open or The Landon Mission House. Postmaster Genera General Post Office, and t

Commission will be deducted from the covers, niny be enclosed in bags of linen or Hongkong, 23rd September, 1800,

amount of the New Order,

other material, tied at the neck; bags no

Hongkong, October 17, 1868. 13. Repayment whether of an original, clised that they cannot readily be opened, or renewed, or a duplicate Urder will not even although they be transparent, mustb

PART It is hereby notified that under the shade to the remitter until it has been not be used for this purpose. Non-com- AT THE thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the lascertained that the advice has been cat-pliance with this rule will she subject the May Ixat, Superintending or First-Class celled at the Office on which the Order was packet to be detained or forwarded as an

unpaid letter.

The Packets or the contents thereof must not toutain any inclosure, sealed or other wise closed a against inspection,

Schoolmasters in the Army wil, in future be entitled to the garne

ne pirvilaged in regard

drawn

of an Order must bejob- to Letters sent by of addressed to thet ontained before the end of the Sixth Calendar their own private stairs as are at present for instance, if drawn in January, payment

Month after that in which it was drawn enjoyed by Commissioned Officers in the

must be obtained before the end of July, Army; and all Army Echoolmistresses will otherwise the Order, will become lapsed, be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all and a new Order (for which a second Com- but the First-Class now are) to the same mission, to be deducted from the amount privileges, in regard to the Letters, are of the Order, will be charged) will becane enjoyed by

SataGreat Republic, Jan. 1949 / Private stoned Officers and

China,

Feb 19,

A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or sboat same date, ponnecting at Yokohama with above named steamer.

Pengers tloketed through to California, Mexico, Central and South Amerias, and

Overland Route to principa, points in The Unites Blator The Canada, o welding with the virions: Stebri: Hinest for York, to Liverpool, Southampton,

Bremen, Brest, and Havre.

Through Tiokote issued to Now Tork and Europe via Panana Boate and

to Europe per steamers of the Royal Mail Stern Rocket Company, the West India and Pacific Steamship Company, Limited,

FW: MITCHELL Postmaster General, General Post Office Hongkong, July 31, 186844

It is hereby notified for general informé tion that, as an experiment, Mails will be made up at this Office, to be forwarded by sach homeword Britian Cotton Packed the United Kingdom and to places beyond the United Kingdom via Brindisi,

All Letters and newspapers intended to ho forwarded in these Mails must be special- ly directed via Brindis, and they will be hable to the following rates of Postage,

necessary.

15lls Order be zot paid before the and 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, unless, under peculiar circumstances, the Fost Olge of the, Country in which the Order was drawe think proper to allow, it

by whomsoever prosented, the paying Office Id.After once paying a Money der will not be liable to any further claim. If a wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Offsor of the Post Office, the Postmaster General of gence occum will, if he sec St, require the the Country or Colony in which the negli-

FOR A LETTER::

Oficer in fault to make good the loss. Addressed to the United Kingdom, not

don, No Money Order wi be paid unless exceeding half an ounce in weight, 38 cents; the advice has been previously received. for every additional half an ounce, 38 cents.

18-Additional Rules for greater accu- Addressed to the United States of Ame-rity against fraud, and for the better work rica, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, ing of the system generally will be made 48 cauta, for every additional half al

as occasion may require. ounce, 49 conta PAS

and The Compagnia "Générale Transaflan- | viz: sique from Aspinwall direct, Connections made at Panama with Steam linea upon the West Coast of Central and South America, by which passengers are ticketed through

Through Dills of bading given for Freight vis Central Pacific Railroad and its con- nections, to the principal points in the United States and Canadas and for Freight dyland for England and the Continenta

Through Bill of Lading given routes also for York and Europe vis

via Aspinwall Liresto, parte Europe and ports on the West Coast of 4 aurices, Central America, and South America to

Valparaiso

FOR SALE. CHINA MAIL" OFFICE. THE following SETS of

the "CHINA PUNOH❞ can be obtained, stitched

in paper wrappers, at the rate of 26 centa

fer copy vit

:

No.

Price.

17

16,

a se;

In all other respects the general regula-11 sale complete from 11. tions of the Hook Post, between Hongkong 4 and the United Kingdom will apply to the 4

$9.50.

Pattern Post. Under these regulations, in

53 ·16, order to prevent any interuption to the 3, 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, and from 19 ta 24. $2.25 Also a few separate copies of Nos.1; 2, regular transmission of letters, a Packet of Patterns many, when it is to which, m

'O. A. SAINT. be kept back for the follow ng Mail by the ordinary course, it would be forwarded.

"SAILORS" HOME, WEST POINT.

منتشت

Trustees

The decision of the Poster General as to the eligibility of Bay Packet, pattern or sample contained therein, to be for Hon. W. KESWICK, warded under these regulations, will be * JOHN DENT, final and conclusive.

FORBES, Esq. B. G.. THOMSETT,

Esq., E.X.

Directors

The rule which forbids the, trasamission through the Post of any article likely to Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the G. 7. BELLAND, ESQ. injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Hon.: H. B. Gras, Post Office is, of course, applicable to the O. HEARD, EL Pattern, Posti and a packat thing of the kind will be stoppedagang W. LEMARN, Esq. sent to its destination.

Articles such as

the following lavo been occasionally posted unt

на

D. SARRION, Esq. W.MACAULAY, Esq.

Rey W. R. BAD J.J. MURRAY, M.D.

Committee of Management, Hon. W KEEWTON, Chairman.

ONATIONS of Honka, Périodicals, News- hankfully received.

papers, Clothes, &s, will be moat

A. OVERBURY,

· Superintendent. Hongkong, Optober 29, 1866

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

an Patterns, and havo been detatued W, MACAULAY, Frq. H. G. THOMSETT, unfit for the Post, viz: Metal boxes, lain and Ubius, fruit, vegetables, bunches. J. HaILAND, ESQ. Et, B.N. of flowers, cattings of plante, spors, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed Instruments, samples of metals, samples of oro, samples in glass bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various 19. Should it appear that Money Orders kinds, curry combe, copper and steel eu are used by mercantile men, or others, graving plates, and confectionery of all FOR EVERY NEWSPAPER exceding 4 ounces in weight, 8 cents; for transmission of large sums of money, the Addressed to the Volted Kingdom, not kong, Shanghai or Yakobama, for the

either in the United Kingdom or at Hongkinds.

every additional Newspaper not exceeding British or Colonial Post Office, as the case

8 cente. Addressed to the United States of Amey, he will consider the propriety of in rica, not execeding 4 ounces in weight, the power of wholly suspending for a time

Gressing the

Commission, and will exercise cents; for every additional Newspaper not the issue of Money Orders,

THEIR Ance, 10 conta,

By Command, mist by fully prepaid. Un-

F. W. MITCHELL, paid or insufficiently Letters, &c, will

paid Till eight payable in ad aute in Merit be sunt via Brindist. Book Fackets

Postmaster General 135 General Post Office, American and Packels of Patterns will not be for

Hongkong, 22nd Augent, 1868.

Pavorable Arrangements have been made fordhrough passengers and f

I fraight to Ama

rics, from Oslonita, and Singapor and, from Swatow diFoochow

wan Dolars, or on delivery

4

gud Qin witir 8 per cent aditional, it warded is Brindisie 1. The 11

itioner's opkets lsaded at a re- Į Molin pop the whole amount

for the Round Voyage,

For further information at ito Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company, Praya West

T. A. HARRIS,

Agent

Hankkong, October 7, 1869.

**

*Posi-Once Notifications HAUS BY THE TRAVANCOREZ AS The Contract Packet TRAVANCORE will be illispy cohed with the usual Mail --for Europe,; &c, on TUESDAY, the 14th December, at 9 AM., and the Post Ulfee will be open for the reception of Ordinary Letters, Lutters for Registra tion. Newspapera Books, &c, until Job PM OU

the 13th December Letters dd, may be posted in the night box from 8 p.. on the 18th Decembar until

.. on the following morn All Letters posted between 7 and 8

on the 4th December will be chargo in addition to the usual postage, with a Lute fee of 18,00uta.

A

W. MITCHELL,

By apni prli qayPortmaster General,

F

General Post-Uffice,

Hongkong, November 24, 1860, 2

REGISTRATION OF LETTERS AND BOOK PACKET SYSTEMS EXTENDED TO THE COAST Tonre ANDAAN.

It is hereby notifed fur general informia tion, by order of. Hiq

that, the

FWMITCHELL Postmaster General'

General Post Office, Hongkong, October 13, 1869.

CHAIR AND BOAT HIRË, The following Regulation for Street Chairs and Chair-Coolies, are published for general information;

THIS Medicine is universally admitter to be the most efficacious remedy known to the world. No preparation is ac suitable to the climates of India and Chine as this fine and invigorating medicine. 3. is particularly adapted to the constitution of European ladies, as it is never failing its effects in all diseases peculiar to females, while those who are attenuated by the de bilitating effects of the above climates wil find in this wonderful remedy's kind of ta of $50.

laman whereby they may insure a restora

No Street-Chairs may ply for here after midnight;

; they may, however, carry their fates as long as required.

Each Chair is secured for Should articles of a higher be lost

Chair, there will be very. Any little hope of their

er

than this

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT

L-Oo the 1st October next, and thence- Richard Graves MacDonnell Sir recopery through: the tion to robust health.

جمة

forward Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof st Shanghai and Yokohama, or all the Money Order Ufices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Ireland, for amounts, not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Current for Bach Mail, and charged with Commission according to the following Scale, viz. :-

Cente,

For aune not exceeding 12 Aboyo £2 and not exceeding £ 5,....24 £ 7,....42 £6

5

#1

2-No Money Order to include a frac tional part of a Penny an

3.-Orders drawn in the United King do up Hongkong, Shanghai, azul Yukos hainn, will be paid at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at

the time of their presentation.

loss of property in any Street Chair is suspected, its number should be forwarded to the Registrar General af care without any loss of time.

system of registration has been, from this

The science of Medicine has never befor date, extended to lestels and other descrip

produced any remedy that can be compared tions of correspondence transmitted by the

to this wonderfu) Ointment, as it care Post, in the Malls by both the British When ground of Complaint arises against after all other means have failed, "al Contrast Packets

sete, and by

by Private Ships, suy Street Chair-Coolie the poreon ag wounds, sores, ulcers, and also the most between this Office and endl; Agency there grieved may either hand the offender over inveterate skin diseases peculiar to the ali of in Chine and Jagan, vis: Canton, to the Pence, of tend à femorandum of mates of India and China. It is the tru Sato, Amey, Tonchow, Ningpo, Shang the complaint and the Chair's Number to friend of the Boldier and Civilian, as oer hai, Nagasaki, Hiogo, and Yokobama, and the Registrar General It must however tain old sores can be removed by it that hatween any two of these Agencies, be remembered, that the Registrar General cannot be conquered by any other treat The fee for registration is 8 cents each can inflict only a reprimand, but neither ment letter, &o.

fiue nor imprisonment, without the testimony Rongkong, February 1, 1867, No Letter, Book, or Packet of Patterns of an eye-witness on path, 1

This however, can be registered, unless the full postage may be supplied

Chinese who wit upon, it, as well as the registration, fee, benessed the Offence, if accredited by a con- paid in advance in postage Stamps firmatory note from his employer.

Letters, for legitrefore the time congregating of Chairs near their premises will be Persons who are inconvenienced by the received up to half an hour before

should notify the Registrar General, who fixed for closing the Mails,

proticable, establish a "Chair

General Post Office,

any

Mid-will, if FW. Mary Stand" in the nearest convenient place,

Postmaster Generol Hongkong, 13th October, 1869,

along

NOW READY.

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

· THE ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR

"MANUAL

5

mination of Chinese Dates, during the

Intimations.

THE

CHINESE COMMERCIAL

GUIDE.

By S, WELLS WILLIAMS, IL.

Published at the Eñka Mai" Office, Hongkong

638 FE, DENY STO, WITH AFFLEDIE,

FIFTH EDITION, 1863, .'-

Price, $5.

SIIMANTS Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollartech

The following is an Abstract of the Cons tenta of this Book

CHAP. 1850. 1 TO 1

Four Treaties with China, di 1.-Treaty with Great Britain,

Chinese Text of the aatse 2.-Treaty with the United States, 3.--Treaty with France, 4.--Treaty, with Russis

Supplementary Treaty with Rusis.

CHAP. II. SKRITO SIVKIAR. Articles of Trade with Chind! 1.-Tariff on Articles of Import 2.--Tarif on Articles of Expert, 3.--Rules respecting Trade and Dues,

Chinese Text of the same. 4.-Description of Articles of Import 6.—Description of Articles of Export.

Foreign Commerce with China,

1- Pret of Canton,

2-Port of Claychau or Swatow 3-Port of Kiuugchau in Haiban 4-Port of Amoy,

5.-Fort of Fooghow.

6.-Ports of Tamehui and Taiwan in For

7-Port of Ningpo.

8.-Fort of Shanghai,

Man gro

9-Ports on the Yangtas' and Trade in

the Interior.

10.---Port of Luchan or Chafoo = ****, 11.-Port of Tientsin,

12-Port of Newchwang or Yangtis, 13-Colony of Bungkong. 14.-Colony of Macao.

Foreign Commerce with Japan, 1.-Intercoures with Japan. 2.-Treaty between Great Britain and

Japan.

S.-Ports open to Foreign Commerce, -

Nagasaki,

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

„sures,ba Magnikdy: 2 seperti -American Compact with Lewchewg/

CHAR, Y.-830. 1 to piloti zem Moneys, Weights, de., in China. 1.-Chinese Currency, 2.-Chinese Numerals. 3.-Chinese Commercial Weights 4.Messures of Capacity.

Measures of Length. F &Chinese Land Measures. 7.-Chinese Division of Times

QRAP. VI-BEC Iro 11. Western Moneys, Weighta, der R 1-Aruamese Moreys, &o, Contade. 2.-Port of Saigon.

"Denkt edn.) 3.-Treaty with Siaus, Tariff, do, ̧,

Siamese Moneys, Weights, 4-Netherlands India.

5 Philippine Islands,

Sailing Directions for Pedy 4,920H 6--Malagan State Singapore,, &c. 7-Burinese Moneys, Weights, or 8-Indian Presidencies,-Bengal, Mũi

dras, Fombay. 9.--Ceylon. 10.-English and French Weights, do 11.-United States of America,

CHAP, VII.—AEC. 1 roʻ6, z Tables on Prices, Exchanger, Ée. 1.-Comparison of Prices,

Relating to Exchanges, 3-Kelating to Time. 4-Comparison of Weighte 5.-feasurement of Cargo 6.-Bullion Operations.

APPENDIX-Containing Sailing Dire tions for the Coast of China, and foe the Japan lelands so giving the meatrugh of Chinese Words pocurring in Chania Sailing Directions; and also a Table of Por sitions of places of the Chinese and Japa nese Consta-

The

4--Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700

and as far as possible enforce the Ordinance. in regard to it, The Istest time for posting Letters at this Money Order Offices in the United King

An attempt will be made to enforce the Ofer is 8 and for Newspapersdom, chewing the Counties in which they

It is hereby notified for general informaordinary "Rule of the Road," Books, or Patterns 7 A.. on the 14th are situated, are hung up for public refer- tion, by order of His Excellency Sir Richard Queen's Road, more especially in the even A Handbook of reference for the deter December.

once at this Office, and also at Shanghai Grapps MreDonnelly that henceforward in Chairs or driving, Velicles will co-ops period from 1880 to 1809; with comparative Further, late letters (but Letters bly) ad- and Yokohama.

Book Packets, and Packets of Patterns or in Tables of Annual and Mensual Designations, dressed to the Adúited Kingdom, viá

6.Applicants for Money Orders must posted on board the Packet froin 8.50 the initial of one Christian name, both of mitted through the Post by the Mails made of keeping the left side: f

up to be forwarded both by the British 08.60%. on payment of lata fée the Remittor and the Payes; if the Rewit Contract Packets and by Private Ships, its Number Board & Tariff of Fares con-

Each Street Chair carried on the back of BIOK MAYERS, BI.M.C.§. Fof: 18 cents-otch, in addition to the ter or Payee bb a Peer or a Bishop, his or be tweet this Office and each Agency thereof densed from the following

Pelago, after which no etters can be dinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the in China and Japan, viz.: Canton, Swatow, LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS,

5. A nonal designation of such firin, such as

CHAIR BEARERS, AND BOATS, Saded Boxes containing the correspondence" Baring Urothers? will subce; but the Amor, Foechow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nag- Hiogo, and Yokohama, and alag of Box Holders will be received at the mere term Mears., ancha Mesara, Ribetween any two of these Agencies, at the window set apart for the purpose, on vington", or the name of Company trad following rates of postage, which must be

t Side of the building.

ing under a title which does not consist of pondence for places to which pre the names of the permane composing it, such it advance, viz.

Marseiller or to Singapore, may be furnish, in fall, the surname, and, at leay Samples of Merchandize, may be transrate with the Police by observing the Rule & de. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE menta in Bullion," has been prepared and

received.

payment is compulsory must be prepaid

ke in Hongkong Postage Stamps,

Liolently stamped Letters addressed to

addition to the postage.

The author in his Preface says – tables in Chap. Vil., for estimating prices, measurement of goods, exchanges, do, have been selected from those constantly it among the foreign merahants in Chin. Those for oaleniating the prices of tes dollars or penge have been copied from the sion of the author, P. Loureiro, Baq Th more extended tables, the

try last section of the same chapter on

kind perad

furnished for the Guide by Pranck R Harper, Esq., of the Commercial Bank of India at Hongkong, who has had much exe Author's Preface.

in perience the exchanges and more cute Most persons whose avocations or studies of the precious metals in Eastern Asia, are connected even remotely, with Chinese IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

subjects are wont to confess the need of a been reprinted from the China Filot.

The Appendix of Sailing Directions has Chatra, or Ordinary Pullaway Boats.

convenient manual of reference for the pur-With short interruptions, the costs from Half hour,....12 cts. Hour, 20 cts, either the European or the Chinese method it; and for the Chinese coasts, the Direc pose of deterruiting dates according to Singapore to Hakodadi are all described in i cents. Three hou:60 ct. Six hours,...75 cts of compotation and a system of comparitions have been improved by the insertion

Day (from 6 to 6);.. !!!.

...One Dollar, for the nam

names attributed to years, of the Chinese characters for the same o 12Night Fares (after & F..)710 cts, extra months, and other periods is also frequent all places that could be ascertained, "

Beyond Victoria and back, 50 cts. per man, piler of the following tables has though Chair Bire to Out Districts,*ly donderste with translakes, and To Stanley and back,

readers of Chinese literature. The com

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should leave nothing to be desired. With the excepiton of the

the Cyclical Table of Year

of Solar Terms, both Morrison, and afterwards republished with of which were originally compiled by Dr. hnpravoments in William Commercial they are now copied, the whole of the mat Guide, from which (with some alteration) ter assembled in the following pages is for the first time made accessible to general reference.

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in Mail Agents, or direct to Ordere may be sent through any of the ROBARLES A SLINT, *** (Late A. Shortreis & Co.)

Chino Mall Office, Jan. 6, 1868,

For Sale.

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