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KR 17, 1860,
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COMPANY
OF FIRE INSVERKOL
Buildings and APE
No. 2037 —December 17, 1869.]
PACIFIC MAIL STEAM-SUIP COMPANY.
THROUGH. U. &.. MAIL LINE TO NEW YORK, Via Panama or Overland Route."
TEAMERS of this line will be despatch
ed as follows America
Post-Office Notißestions.
TEF CHINA MAIL.
Post-Office Notifications.
Intimations.
aive of postage) Tis. 12 per annum ; jayable Published weekly. Subscription (Exclu-
be loose or attached; as also rollers in the It is hereby notified for general informs
case of prints, markers (whether of paper tion that, as an experiment, Mails will he desire to receive payment in the Country in short whatever is necessary for the safe 9.-Should the Payee of a Money Order or otherwise,) in the case of Booke, and in each homeward British Contract Packet, to Uice than that in which the Order was ori-usually apportatos thereto. made
at this Office, to be forwarded by which the Order was isimed, at some other transmission of literary or artistic matter or in advance, ng the United Kingdom and to places beyond ginally drawn, the transfer will be granted, out a cover, or in a cover open at the enda the United Kingdom via Brindisi.
Every Book packet must be either with- provided the Urler be inclosed to the All Letters and newspapers intended to Postmaster of the Office in which it wan be forwarded in these Mails must be special drawn. In such case a new Order will
or sides. 12ly directed the Brindis, and tliny will be issued, the Commission chargeable upon 12.
be 12,
able to the following rates of Postage, which will be deducted from the amount of 13.ONE FOR A LETTRE.
the new Order. ·
• Dec.
18.
follow uut FUN
1870,
noked
Japan,
doved
China,
thair
America,
Jan Febr March
12.
Japan,
April
Uimai
China,
May
America,
June 11.
then
per
Japan!
July 13,
d'thoir
China
America,
Japuth China, America,
August 12. Sept. 12. October 12, Nov.
arrangement.
will be charge: koz
per cent.
t per cent.
per cent,
per cent.
nefull Annual Bats
of 1 per cent.
ALKER & Co.,
aurance Compan a 13, 1869
#
NCE OFFICE ng been appointed
ve INSURANON
to accept Marine
on any fitat class here, on the usual
Jo
in
CHINA
DEBAY, OF LONDON
ALKER & 864
COMPANY
OF
DISCO..
nts for the shows ed to grant Poll BUILDINGS and
USRELL & Co.
1887,
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Y
g been appointed
g for the abov
ared to grant Fo
Bat currentraten SBELL & ORE!
NCE ASSOCIA NGHATSA
Marine Ateks to
at current rate,
1 brokerage this
assured. Fifteen ofits divided pre ontributed, SHELL & Co. Becretaries,
E COMPANY DISCO
been appointed
he above InsUE*
ed to grant Poh
at the current
SSELL & Co.
AAND
OMPANY OF. G.
g been appointed
the above named
grant Policies
he current Eatós, YNAL & Co.
ING RANCE COM AVIA
been appointed. for the above bared to grant won the aule
ASEN & Co.
MPANY OF DA, LIMITED.
ttention of Ship and Masters of ment at Hong the DOOKING
ls of all classé.
pany have the
Granite dimensions
in length,
by
sto
have erected
re prepared to
ne and station
achinery of All -Boilers of all crushing and
and every
work.
de
been completed, rawing 18 feet erospable
es of the tide
opened a Ship ongkong Dook, The constaus Vesasis of any any wii taks
ORPHAN
WALKER: relary,
Boad, Corner
589.
12. Deo 12
ounce, 4 city additional half an Original Orders payable.
It must not contain any letter, open or sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever; the name and address of the sender is how- ever not only permitted but repended,
Addressed to the United Kingdom, not in the event of a Money Order so that if the cover come of, or for any exceedifig half an ounce in weight, 38 center miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will other reason the packet cannot be forward for every additional half an ounce, 35 cents the Fayes, fountaining the necessary breadth or depth; axceding these dimen
be granted on a written application fromed, it may be returned. Addressed, to the United States of Ame particulars, and accompanied by an addisions it cannot be forwarded through the No packet must exceed two feet in length, rica, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, tional Commission) to the Office yliore the pot. 48 cente for
VO 90 Deretter AS REGARDS PATTERNS, This rule excludes all articles of a saluable They must not be of intrinsic value. store, and indeed whatever way bave a value of its own, apart from its mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of. any tnaterial sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be con-
value. sidered as having on this ground an intrin-
A Steamer will leave Shanghai on or EVERY NEWSPAPER, about same dates, connecting at Yokobama with-above-named steamers,
Addresses to the United Kingdom, not every additional Newspaper not exceeding exceeding 4 ounces in weight, 8 cents; for 4 ounces, 8 conta
Pasangers ticketed through to California, Mexico, Central and South Amerion, and Overland Ronto to principal points is by the United States and Canadas, and con-rica, not exceeding 4 ounces in weight, 10 Addressed to the United States of Ame necting with the various Steam lines for cents; for every additional Newspaper not New York, to Liverpool, Southampton, exceeding 4 ounces, 10-bents. Bremen, Brest, and Havre,
Through Tickets issued also to New York and Europe via Panama Route and to Europe per steamers of the Royal Mail Steam Paket Company, the West India sad Pacific Steamship Company Limited, And The Compagnie Générale Transatlan tique from Aspinwall direct. Connections Tade at Paname with Steam lines upon the West Coast of Central and South America, by which passengers are ticketed through
Through Bills of Lading given for Freight Central Pacific Railroad and its con nections to the principal points in the United States and Canadas and for Freight Overland for England and the Continent
Through Bills of Lading given also for New York-and Europe via Pausma route, and to Europe via Aspinwall Lines to ports of Mexico and prate on the West Coast of Central America, and South America to as far as Valparaiso.
Favorable arrangements have been male or through passengers and freight to Ame- rids, front Calcutta, Penang and Singapore, and from Swatow, Amoy and Fooshow.
All Freight, payable in advands in Mexi ean Dollars, or on delivery American Gold Coin with 8 per cent ad shipper's option
The Postage must by fully prepaid. Un paid or insuficiently paid Letters, &n, willa not be sent via Brindies. Book Packeta and Parketa of Patterns will not be for warded tix Prindisi.
TW MITCHELL, Fostmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, November 24, 1869,
IL-On the receipt of similar applica of a Money Order, or to renew a lapeed tion, orders will be given to stop parent
ast case will be deducted from the amount Urder. The additional Commission in the
Under presented with the application for of the new Order Lapsed Orders must be
GONAL
B Zew
There must be no writing or marke other
12But when it is desired that any should be corrected or that the amount of error in the name of the Remitter or Payce
Money Order should be repaid to the than the address of the person for Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should whom the packet is intended and that of be retinwed for payment in the
the sunder, a trade mark and numbers, and Country in which the Order
prices of the articles; otherwise the Packet briginally drawn, application must be made to the Chief will be detained or forwarded charged pa Money Order Office of such Country. This an unpaid letter: application
The Patterne must be sent in covers mest
be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it have revation. Samples, however, of seeds, drugs, open at the ends, so as to be easy of exemi- Commission will be deducted from the cryera, may be enclosed in bags of linen or ference to a Impaed Order, in which case the and so forth, which cannot be sent in open amount of the New Order, sk
1. It is hereby notified for general in formation that, the Contract between the Government of Mauritius and the Union Steam-ship Company, for the Conveyance or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not 18-Repayment whether of an original of Muils once a Month between Ceylon and be made to the remitter antil it has been Natal, baving terminated, the corresponcelled at the Office on which the Order was Mauritius, and between Mauritius and apertained that the advice has been cau- dence for Mauritius, will be forwarded from the Office in the Mail for Aden, from whence it will be sent to its destination by
originally drawn. the French Mail Fackets leaving Aden for Reunion and Mauritius on the 23rd of such Month....
2. No alteration has been made in the rates of Postage on correspondence ad- dreased to Mauritius,
Kotorn Passage Tickets at
atre duction of the whole ammt for the Bound Vage.
For farther information ue to Pastage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company, Praya West.
T. A. HARRIS,
Agent, Hongkong, October 7, 1889.
Post-Olce Notlications.
MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES MAI PAO-
RET "AMERICA.”
For YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Per the United States Mail Packet “AMERIDA,” on SATURDAY, the 18th Instant, at 2 K. M The Rates of Postage on Correspondence forwarded by this opportunity, which must In each case be paid in advance, are as fol- Jowa, viz.
To Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States,
For Lettura, 8 cents per half-ounce." For each Newspaper not exceeding 4
oncea, 2 conte,
For a Packet of Books, 6 sents per
onncos.
4
Book Packeta must not exceed two feet in length or one foot in width or depth...
To the United Kingdom.
...For Letters, 24 cents per half-ounge.
For each Newspaper not exceeding 4
ones, cents.
For a Packet of Books or Patterns, 8
centa ner 4ounces. Correspondence addressed to Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States must be superscribed per "America,
for
the Cape of Good Hope is thus out off, the 3. As the communication with Natal and correspondence those Colonies, unless marked to be forwarded by Private Ship, will, in future, be sent in the Mails for London at the following rates of Portage, which must be paid in advance, viz... Upon Letters aunt by way
of Southampton,... 48 cents each oz. When sent by way of
Marecilies, Newspaper via Southam-
pton,........
Newspapers via Marseil
les,
54
JJ.
4
17 "
Book Packeta via South
ampton, 20 under
20 : 03.1
cents, above 4 oz. and not ex- reading 80%; and 20 cents for every additional 8 oz.
Book Packets via Maravilles, 14 cents under 4 oz.; 28 cents above for and not exceeding 8 and 28 vents for every additional curices,
F. W. MITCHELL, General Post Office, Hongkong,
Postmaster General 9th September, 1868.
نست
It is hereby notified for general informa tion that under the Provisions of a free sury Warrant, which will come into opera- tion on the 1st October next, correspon- dason addressed to Constantinopla will be forwarded at the following reduced Rates of Postage, which must be paid in advance,
viz,
For LETTERS:
20 cents each half-an-ounce weight. For NEWSPAYBRE, PACKETS OF PATTERNS, AND BOOKS:
2 cents each two ounces up to half-pound, and 8 cents for every additional half-pound.
F. W. MITOUELIG Postmaster Generál General Post Offler, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1809.
1--On the 1st October next, and thence
BO
closed that they cannot readily be opened, other
material, tied at the neck; bags even although they be transparent, must packet to be detailed or forwarded as an pliares with this rule will also subject not be used for this purpose. Non-com-
unpaid letter,
the
not contain any inclosure, sealed or other- The Packets or the contents thereof must wise closed against inspection.
tained before the end of the Sixth Calendar 14-Payment of an Order must be ob
for instance, if drawn in January-payment Month after that in which it was drawn i must be obtained before the end of July,tions of the Book Post between Hongkong otherwise the Order will become lapaid, and the United Kingdom will apply to the and a new Order (for which a second Com- Pattern Fost. Under these regulations, in In all other respects the general regula
mission, to be deducted from the amount order to prevent any interruption to the necessary. of the Ordur, will be charged) will become regular transmission of letters, & Packet of the ordinary course, it would be forwarded. Patterns may, when it is necessary, be kept back for the follow ng Mall by which, in
end of the Twolfth Calendar Month after 15.If an Order be not paid before the that in which it was drawn for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before
The decision of the Postmaster. General
of
AND
SUPREME COURT. AND CONSULAR GAZETTE, LAW REPORTER FOR THE SUPREME AND PROVINCIAL COURTS OF CHINA AND JAPAN,
HE Gazette isa General Weekly Newspa per, containing Officially Revised Reporta Cases heard at the Supreme autt Conrular
Queries au Legal points; Reports of Public Meetings; News of the Week, Bankruptcy Original Articles; Notes and Courts, Police. Cases, and Proceedings in
Summary, da, de
Commercial
eta per 30 lines, for sanh subsequent inser per 10 linen, for the first insertion, and 60 Advertisements will be charged Tla 1
tion
Shanghai, January, 1867,
NEW BOOK,
HE Speculations of
The Old Philosopher":
LAU-TSZE."
Translated from the Chineze
BY
JOHN CHALMERS, A‚M. Price $1.50. ALSO,
author: Price $1
"The Origin of the Chinese" by the same
or The London Mission House.
Apply at Morera LANE, CRAWFORD & 0.
Hongkong, October 17, 1868.
AT THE "CHINA MAIL" OFFICE, FOR SALE
THE following SETS of the "CHINA PUNCH can be obtained, stitched ger copy viz is paper wrappers, at the rate of 20 cents
-No.
Price.
11 sets complete from 11.
4
23
33
4
»
3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, and from 18 to 24 11. $8.50. 15+
*1 $2,50. 16. JJ
$2.26. Also a few separate copies of Nos. 1, 2,
C. A. SAINT.
"
SAILORS' HOME, WEST POINT, Trustees
H. G. THOMSETZ,
Esq., R.N.
Directors
as to the eligibility of any Packet, pattern Hon, W. KESWICK, FORRES, EAQ the end of the following January all olaimer sample contained therein, to be for under peculiar circumstances, the Post final and conclusive. to the Money will be forfetted, anless, warded under those regulations, will be
JOAN DENT, Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn think proper to allow it.
16.After once paying a Money Order by whomsoever presented, the paying Office
The rule which forbida the transmission through the Post of any article likely to Hon. II. B. Gina, injure the contents of the Mail Bege or G. J. BELLAND, Bay, Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the HEARD, Esq.
to the W. LMANN, Esq.
will not be liable to any further claim. Post Offies is, of containing any; }
Pattern Post; and a packet
thing of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Articles such a the following have been occasionally poste
D. Sassoon, Reg. W. MACAULAY, Esq.
Rev. W. H. BEACH.
J. J. MARAT, M, D.
Committee of Management.
Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairman.
as Patterns, and have been detained as W. MACAULAY, Esq. I. G. TROMSETT, lain and China, uufit for the fost, viz: Metal boxes, porce. J. HELLAND, Esq. Eaq., RN,
fruit
vegetables, bunches
& wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Office, the Postmaster General of The Country or Colony in which the negli- gence occurs will, if he see fit, require
the Officer in fault to make good the loza. the advice has been previously received.
17.--No Money Order wi ́ be paid unless
of flowers, onttings of plants, spurs, knives, rity against fraud, and for the better work sharp pointed instruments, samples of
Additional Rules for greater sect-poissons, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, DONATIONS of Rocha, ing of the system generally will be made metals, samples of ore, samples in as ocasion may require.
glass bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various kinda, curry combs, copper and steel sus kids
10 Should it appear that Money Orders are used by men, or either in the United Kingdom or at Honging plates, and confectionery of all 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- the power of wholly suspending for a time cressing the Commission, and will exercise the issue of Money Orders.
By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868. RHSTRATION OF LEITERS AND BOOK PACKET
SYSTEMS KITENDED TO THE COAST POBTS AND JAPAN.
It is hereby notified for general informa tion, by order of His Excellency. Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, that, the
F. W. MITCHELL,
Hongkong, October 13, 1869.
Postmaster General. General Foal Office,
معه.
CHAIR AND BOAT HIRE, The following Regulations for Strest. Obaira and Chair-Coolies, are published for general information.
No Street Chairs may ply for hire after midnight; they may, however, carry their fares as long as required.
Should articles of a higher value than this Each Chair is secured for a sum of $50. be lost in any Chair, there will be very Little Lope of Security.
their recovery through the
Furiodicals, News-
papers, Clothes, c., will be most hankfully received.
A. OVERBURY,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, October 28, 1868.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS & OINTMENT. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS
IRIS Medicine is universally admitted 1 to be the most efficacions remedy known to the world. No preparation is s suitable to the climates of India and China is particularly adapted to the constitution as this no and
medicine. invigorating
It
its effects in all diseases peculiar to females, of European ladies, as it is never failing in while those who are attenuated by the de
lisian whereby they may injure a restora- find in tha wonderful remedy a kind of ta bilitating effects of the above climates will
tion to robust health,
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT,
Tho science of Medicine has never before
and that addressed to the United Kingilon forward Money Orders will be issued at system of registration has been, from this forwarded to the Registrar General at once produced any remedy that can be compared
Buz
must be superscribed via San Francisco Odfrespondsuce addicused to the United Kingdoin not fully prepaid will be aest vid
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General. General Post Office.. Hongkong, December 9, 1869. de18
It is hereby notified, by order of His Excellency Bir. Richard Gravea MacDon hell, that henceforward; the rates of Pos- lage chargeable on Packets of Printed Fapers or Patterns of light weight sept from Hongkong to the United Kingdon when forwarded via Sunthampton, will be
For a Packet not exceeting one
onnca is weight,
2 cante. For a Packet above one and.
As follows.
ot
I excooding two ounces,... 4 xente. and of double these rates when forwarded vid Marseilles.
Packets of greater weight than two ounces will remain subject to the satin ratos 6 are now chargeable, viz. ;
8 cents for every four ounces whon for
warded vit Southampton, and
warded via Marseillés.
12 cents for every four ounces when for
This alteration will suply to Printed Circalera, Price Lists, Market Reports and All printed papers other than Nawapaperi, well as to Books and Trade patterns or Marples.
FW. MIT HELL, Pustmaster General
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 12th August, 1869.
It is hereby notified that, under the au. thority of a Treasury Warrant dated the lat Hay last, Superintending, or First-Class Schoolmasters in the Army will, in future,
When
Chair is suspreted, its number should be When loss of property in any Street thin Office and at the Agencies thereof at last, extended to letters and other descrip- without any loss of time.
to this wonderful Ointment, as it caras Shangbai aut. Yokohama on all the
of oorrespondenca transmitted by the Order Ofices in the United Kingdota of Post, in the Mails by botli the British any Street Chair-Coolie, the person at wounds, sores, ulcers, and also the most ground of Complaint arises against after all other means have failed, all Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not Contract Fackets and by Private Ships, grieved either hand the offender over
inveterate skil exceeding £10, at the inte of Exchange between this Office and excls Agenay there to the Police, or soul à memorandum of mates of India and China. It is the true diseases peculiar to the cli Current for Each Mail, and charged with in China and Japan, via: Canton, the complaint and the Chair's Number to friend of the Soldier and Civilian, as car Commission according to the following Swatow, Amoy, Foocbow, Ningpo, Shang the Registrar General. It must however tain old sores can be removed by it that. Scale, viz. -
Cents, hai, Nagasaki, Biogo, and Yokohama, and be remembered, that the Registrar General cannot be conquered by any other treat
also between any two of these Agencies, can infliot only a reprimand, but neither ment
The fee for registration is 8 cents each fine nor imprisonment, without the testimony
Hongkong, February 1, 1867. letter, &c.
of an eye initiices on oath. This however No Letter, Book, or Packet of Patterns may be supplied by any Chinese who wit can be registered unless the full postage nessed the Offence, if accredited by a cot- upon it, as well as the registration fee, be Brmatory note from his employer. paid in advance in postage Stamps.
Letters, de, for registration will ha
ور
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For sume-not exceeding £2,13 Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5....24 £7.42 £10,48 2,No Money Order to include a frac tional part of a Penny,
++
3.-Orders drown in the United King
dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko-received up to half an hour before the time hania, will be paid at the rate of Exchange fixed for closing the Mails. at which Money Orders are being issued at
the time of their presentation.
4-Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700
F. W. Marcпel Postmaster Generat. Geveral Post Office, Money Order Offices in the United King-Hongkong, 13th October, 1869. dom, shewing the Counties In which they are situated, are hung up for public rafer- once at this Office, and also. at Shanghai and Yokohama,
in
(AT THE
NOW READY,
"CHINA MAIL" OFFICE.) PRICE $1.00
THE
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
MANUAL
period from 1880 to 1869; with comparative Handbook of reference for the deter mination of Chinese Datea, during the Tables of Annual sud Menatal Designations, &c, &c. Compiled by WILLIAM FREDE RICK MAYERS, B.M.0.8.
Persons who are inconvenienced by the should notuly the Registrar General, who congregating of Chairs near their premises will, if practicable, establish a "Chair, Stand in the nearest convenient place, and as far as
ras possible enforce the Ordinance regard to it. An attempt will be made to enforce the ordinary
Hule of the Road," along tiau, by order of His Excellency Sir Richard ing. It is requested that all Persus riding
It is hereby notified for general informaQueen's Rond, more especially i
the eyes A Graves MacDonnell, that henceforward in Chairs or driving Vehicles will co-ope. 5.-Applicants for Money Orders must Book Packets, and Packets of Patterns or rate with the Police by observing the Rule furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, Sariples of Merchandize, may be trans- of keeping the left side, the initial of ou Chiristian name, both the Remitter and the Payee; if tlie Remit-up to be forwarded both by the British its Number Board a Tarif of Faros con-
mitted through the Post by the Mails made Each Street-Chair carries on the back ter or Payee be a Peer or a Bishop, hie or Contract Packets and by Private Ships, densed from the following. dinary titlo will be sufficient, if a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as in China and Japan, viz.: Canton, Swatow, between this Office and each Agency thereof "Baring Brothers" will suffice; but the mera term Mesars, such as "Messrs. Ri-Amy, Fuochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Nag Biogo, and Yokohama, and alzo vington," or the tame of a Company tradhetween any two of these Agencies, at the ing under a title which does not consist of following rates of postage, which must be the names of the persons composing it, suck paid in advance, viz.
Not exceeding 4 oz...ing 6.The Remitter on stating that the Or-Above 4
as "Carron Co;” în inadmissible,
cente.
and not execding
12
24
der is to be paid only through a Bank, to bave the option of giving or withdrawing Ahore 5 oz., and not exceeding the name of the Payes; in such care, the 1 lb.... Order will be crossed in the same way that Above 1 lb., and not exceeding Oheques are commonly orcased when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.
be entitled to the aams privileges in regard When an Order is presented through to Letters sent by or addressed to them ou a Bank, a receipt by suy person will be suf their own private affaire so are at present ficient, provided the Order be erased with njoyed by Commissioned Officers in the the name of the receiving Bank, and be Army and all Army Schoolmistresses will presented by some Person known to be in be entitled (as Army Schoolmasters of all the employ of such Bank,
but the First-Class now are) to the same: privileges, in regard to their Lotters, are shjoyed by non-commissioned Officers and Pirate Soldiers.
11b.
Every additional 16, 12.
Special attention is directed to the fol-
of
Author's Preface.
Intimations.
THE
CHINESE COMMERCIAL
GUIDE.
Br S. WELLE WILLIAMS thu ti
Published at the CHINA Man
Hongkong.
638 PP. DET STO, WITH APPENDIX, FIFTH EDITION, 1663, *Pring 46. Original Publishing Price, Ten Dollars,
The following is an Abstract of the Cou- tents of this Rook:--
CHAP. I.SEC. 1.70 4. Four Treaties with China, 1.Treaty with Great Britain,
Chinese Text of the same. 2-Treaty with the United States.
Treaty with France, 4.Treaty with Russia
Supplemisutary Treaty with Russia.
* Clap, 17.--REC. 1 To`k Articles of Trade with China, 1.-Tarif on Articles of Import.- 2-Tariff on Articles of Export. 5-Rulse respecting Trade and Dues,
Chinese Text of the same. 4.-Description of Articles of Import, 5.-Description of Articles of Export
OBAP, I-SZO. 17o 14.
Foreign Commerce with China. 1-Port of Cayton.
2.--Port of ChaDežkú
Bwatow,
3-Port of Kinngchau in Haiban
4-Port of Amoy.
8.Port of Foochow
6.---Ports of Tamshui and Taiwan in For
7-Port of Ningpo.
Fort
of Shanghai,
9-Ports on the Yangtz' and Trade in
the Interior,
10-Port of Tangclian or Chefer, 11.-Port of Tientsin,
12-Port of Newebwang or Yangtsz.; 18--Colony of Longkong. 14-Colony of Macan.
CHAP; IY.-SEL, 1,70 5,
Foreign Commerce with Japan, 1.Intercourse with Japan, 2.-Treaty between Great Britain and
Japan.
8.-Ports open to Foreign Commerce.
Nagasaki
Kanagawa and Hakodadi,
4.-Japavero Coins, Weights and Mea
Burca.
5.-American Compact with Lewchewg. ·
CHAP, V.SKO, 1 to 7.
Moreys, Weights, de, in China, 1-Chinese Currency,
2.--Chinese Numerala.
3.-Chinese Commercial Weight, 4.-Measures of Capacity. 5-Measures of Length, 6.--Chinese Land Measures. 7.-Chinese Division of Times,
CHAP. VI. SEU. 170 11.
Western Moneys, Weights, &c. --Annamese Moneys, c 2.-Port of Saigos,
3.-Trosty with Siam, Tariff, &c., Siamese Moneys, Weights, &c. 1.-Netherlands Indis. 5.-Philippine Islands.
Sailing Directions for Panay I. 6.--Malayan States-Singapore, &c. 7.-Burmese Moneys, Weights, do 8.-Indian Presidencies,Bengal, Ma-
drus, Bombay. 9.--Ceylon. 10-English and French Weights, do 11.-United States of America.
ORAL. VII.-Szu. 1 ro 6. Tables on Prices, Exchanges, £1. 1-Comparison of Prices 2.Relating to Exchanges. 3.-Relating to Time. 4-Comparison of Weights, 5.-Measurement of Cargo.g 6-Bullion Operations.
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APPENDIX.-Containing Sailing Direc 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 also Table of Po sitions of places on the Chinese and Japs. Leae Couets.
The author in his Preface says:-"The tables in Chap. VII., for estimating prices, measurement of goods, exchanges, & have been selected from thene constantly in use among the foreign merchants in China Those for calculating the pricea of tea in
sion of the author, P. Loureiro, Esq. The dollars or pence have been copied from the more extended tables, by last section of the same chapter on Move ments in Bulion," has been prepared and
the kind permis
insialed for the Guido by Patrick B Harper, Esq., of the Commercial Bank of Indis s
at Hongkong, who has had much ex LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS,
Most persons whose avocations or studies of the precious metals in Eastern Asia,
perience in the exchanges and movements CHATE BEARERS, AND BOATE,
are connected even remotely with Chinrar IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
subjects are wont to confess the need of a bees reprinted from the China Filot.
"The Appendix of Sailing Directions had. convenient manual of reference for the pur-With short interruptions, the coasts from Half hour,...12 ets. Hour, 20 cts. either the European or the Chinese method it; and for the Chinese coasta, the Direc Chairs, or Ordinary Pullaway Boate pose of determining dates according to Singapore to Hakodai are all described in Three hours,..50 cis. Six hours... 75 cts. of
computation; and a system of compari-tions have been improved by the insertion Day (from 6 to 6),..
...One Dollar.on for the names attributed to years, of the Chinese characters for the names of Night Fares (after 8 r.a.) .... 10 cts, extra months, and other periods is also frequent all places that could be ascertained, "
lys desideratum with translators and readers of Chinese literature. The com piler of the following tables has thought, accordingly, that their publication in a convenient form may prove useful, although much yet remains to be done for the elabo ration of comparative calentars, etc. that
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Chair Hire to Out Districts.* Beyond Victoria and back, 50cts. per man. To Stanley and back, 60
Viatorin lies below the level of Robinson Road, and includes all the town between
with the Race-course,
lewing rules and regulations which will be the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, attictly enforced:
icised_Bearers (such),
Τους;
Balf day, Days...
... 8 canis, 20 cents. ....36 cents.
should leave nothing to be desired. With AS 'REGARDS BOOKS,"
the exception of the Cyclical Table of of separate Rooks. Almanacks, Maps or A Book Packet may contain any womber
Years, and the Table of Solat Terms, both of which were ad
compiled by Dr. and after ret ublished with Printa,
Morrison, any quantity of paper, vellumi 8-The signature of the Payer of a Moor parchment (to the xclusion of letters my Order to be affixed to the Order in the whether sealed or open); and the Books, the town should understand that they are quite they are now copied, the whole of the mat improvements in Williams Commercial place provided for the purpose.
*Persons who make short excursions out of Guide, from which (with some alteration) If the Maps, Paper, &c, may be either printed, at liberty to pay by the hour if they prefer to do, ter assembled in the following pages is for
Payes be unable to write he must sign the written or plain, or any mixture of the so F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong, July 31, 1869,
receipt by making his mark in the presence three, of a Witness, who must sign his name, with his address in the presence of the Officer who pays the Order,
All Igitimate binding, mounting or covering of the sun or of a portion there will be allowed, whether sheh binding
and Chineso, or of these Regulations, can Copies of the above Tariff, in English be obtained on application at the Registrar General's Office,
the first time made accessible to general reference.
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Orders may be sent through any of the China Mail Agents, or direct to
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