4772-OCTOBER 19, 1878.}
POSTAL RATES. [Subjoined wo give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corre spondence to all parts of the world. Detailed rules affecting the transmis sion of packets, parcels, &c., will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices.]
Hongkong Rates of Postage.
(Revised June 7th, 1878.). In the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given in cents, and are, for Letters, per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, per two ounces.
Newspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, &c., as the case may be, but such papers or packets of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatcuer be inserted except bona fide Supplements. Printed matter may, however, he enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Cur rent may be paid either as Newspapers or Books
N.E. moans No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union, The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Indis (including Ceylon, the Straits, and Aden), Japan, Higypt, Labuan, Mauritias, Seychelles, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Gulans, and Bermuda, with all French, Danish, Netherlands, Portuguese, and Spanish Colonies.
Countries NOT in the Union.-The chief countries not in the Union are: the Aas tralasian Group, Africs (except French, &o, Colonies), Newfoundland and Central Ame rica...
Pestage to Union Countries.
General Rates, by any route →→→
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapers,
12 conte perox
8 centa.
:
2 cents each.
Books and Patterns, 4 cents per 2.02 -
THE CHIMA BAIL.
aust be printed on a sheet or sheets on stitched.
3rd. The full title and date of publication and the whole or part of the title and the must be printed at the top of the first page, date of publication at the top of every tubaquont page; and this regulation applies to Tables of Contents and Indices,
4th. A supplement "must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that of a newspaper,
or of advertisements, printed on a sheet or sheets, or a piece or places of paper, unstitabed, or wholly or in part of Such articles as scissors, Enives, razors, engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra-forks, stool pens, naile, koyo, watch machi" | tive of articles in the newspaper. The nery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or
the following have been cecasionally posted 1- as Patterns, and have been detained as unfit for the Post, via: Motal boxes, porco of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, lalo and Chine, fruit, vegetables, bunches scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass bottles, places of glass, solde of various kinds, curry combs, copper and steel en graving plates, and confectionery of all kinds.
supplement must in every case be published ore, provided that they be packed and with the newspaper, and must have the title and date of publication of the newspaper Printed at the top of every page; or, if it consists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, at the top of every sheet or side.
A packet containing two or more news: papera is not chargeable with higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.
adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped The postage must be prepaid either by an wrapper.
· Kvery newspapor must be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, water, sealing was, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of easy removal for examination. If this rule be infringed, the newspaper is treated as à letter.
Every newspaper must be so folded, as to admit of the title being readily in spected.
A newspaper or packet of newspapers which contains any enclosure except sup- plementa is charged as a letter, unless the enclosure be such as might be sent at the book rate of postage, and the entire packet be sufficiently prepaid as a book, packet, in which case it is allowed to pass,
A newspaper which has any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter, written in it or upon its cover, is charged as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter.
guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail bags and to the Officers of the Post Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined, may be sent as samples. Indigo cannot be sent to any place.
To provide the greatest possible facilities for posting Correspondence for Europe, departure of the French Packets, arrange dic, up to the lateat moment before the
ments have been made for receiving at the Post Office late letters except those to and through Australia from 1116 4.1. to 11.30 AM. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 conta extra postage...
The above arrangement is intended to mest occasional emergencies, and not for the regular posting of extensive correspon- dence. Should it be found, therefore, that large and unmanageable numbers of letters aro habitually thrown upon the Department at the last moment, a heavier late fee will be imposed,
A similar supplementary Mall will be made up for Shanghal by the English and French Contract Steamers, the late letters being received from 10 minutes after, up to half an hour after the time of closing. The late fee will also be 18 cents.
Miscellaneous Notices. Local Delivery.
No pucket of newspapers may be above 1. All correspondence posted before 6 5 lba. in weight, or above two feet inp.m. on any week day for addressed in length, one foot in width, nor one in depth, Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the delivery should be retarded by the Contract Malls.
2. Invitations, do, can generally be delivered within Victoria at the private houses of the addressees rather than st
Palterna-to British Offices, 5lbs. If with-
out intrinsic value; to the Continent, ko, 8 of
Soldiers and Sailors' Letters.. Privatca in H. M. Any or Navy, Non- semmissioned Officers, Army Schoolmas Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters by Post at all: Glass, Liquids, Gunpowder, jars (not superintending or First, Class) or
4. The following articlon cannot be sent to the United Kingdom via Southampton Matches, Candles, Soap, Indigo, Dye-stuff, by British Packet, for one ponty; or via or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or Brindisi by British Paoket for three-pence. offensive or injurious to persons dealing Hongkong stamps will prepay this clan of with them. correspondence exactly the same as Imperial Stamps.
Soldiers' and Sailors' letters are, however, charged as ordinary, letters if they do not "conform to the following regulations - 1. Not to exceed half an ounce.
double letters are allowed.
2. If from a Soldier or Sailor, his olana or description must be stated in fall on the letter, and the commanding Officer must sign his name, with name of Regi- ment, or Ship, &o, in full.
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POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, Oct. 18, 1878.
Leta. Page:
A Foot Ainsary, Capt. Alexander, Ilarryl Almeida, Pis d'. Aky Mypan
Atak Mypan
Lots. Pape.
Loya, Robt. R. 1 1
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1 Lio Koe Teay
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Lock, Thomas
Zono, J.
1 regd. Lumaston, W.
1 Luz, Ellarina da 1
1 regd. Mackenzio, Capt. 1
1 regd. Martin, R.
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PARCELS. The public is rominded that there is no such thing as Parool Post to Europe, &c. Much trouble and disap Amiss, pointment is caused by persistent attempts Atak No to send įmall` valuable trifles through the Ayoun Monrs. 1
Post. Fans, Curios, Articles of Dress, Burrue, Fauoy Work, and similar precents aro con- tinually being refused, the sonders having often spent more in Postage than would have paid the freight by steamer." refund can be made on such parcels of the value of Stamps obliterated before the nature of the contents was discovered.
PATTERNS.Some difficulty is experienced in obtaining a goneral understanding of what is a Pattern. It is a bona fide samples of goods which the sender' has for sale," or of goods which he wishes to order. It is to consist of the smallest possible quantity compatible with shewing what the. gouds are, and must have no intrinsic value.
8. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or description must be stated in full, with name of Regiment, or Ship, ac, in full.
Engineer, Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter,
*But nct Warrant Officers, viz., Assistant
Communication with Batavia. The Netherlanda India Packets leave Singapore fortnightly, and are fitted to the arrival of the outward P. & O. Mail trona Europe.
The French Packts for Batavia wait at Singapore for the Packet from China and run fortnightly.
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Baughman, G.E. Beal, Mrs Herlonitz, Wm. 1 No Bernard, Emile 1
Black, Geo. Elucionk, Jehu 1 Blanchard, Y. T. 2 Borsolo, L, Brokenshur, Brooking, A. C. 1
bell, Sir Bryde, Capt. Bushnell, SamLC, Butcher, J. B. Cheng Loong
06, Church, H, E. Clataud, Mons. J.1 Cross, Airs S. J. 1 Cunha, Caro-
To provide means of remitting small Buna of money to or from this Colony and between the Ports of China and Japan, the Postmasters and Agents of this Office will
be required) foreign residents.
future he allowed but not tour to
dence to Latavia with the least delay, the
It follows that, to forward Correspon-in following are the best opportunities:
In the S. W. Monsoon.
The English Mail. The Franch Mail.
In the N.E. Monsoon.
The French Mail.
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Between Hongkong and Shanghai, or Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in either direction, Money-Orders must be tead.
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Housego, Mr Howard, Mre Hules, Arthur 1 Lamerton, Henry 1 Larsen, Andrew 1
A krivate Steamer a few days before the exceed $25 in value, must be perfectly Tho Stamps tondored for sale must not English Mail.
clean, in good condition, and in strips of at least two, as no separate Stamps will be purchased. They must be presented per Bonally or accompanied by a note.
The Postmaster or Agent may postpone-Levis, S. purchasing if his publio funds in hand are not sufficient, and he will refuse to purolites in any case which appears doubtful or suspicious. He is allowed to charge a Commission of one per cent on all Stamps purchased. :
The Epat Office is not, by law, responsible for any loss or inconvenience which any arise from the non-delivery, mis-sending, or mie-delivery of any letter, book, or other postal paokét (even if the packet: be ro. gistered) nor is the Post Office responsible for any injury which a packet may sustain daring its transmission.
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Saune, W. F. B. Savio, Pietro. Stott, Rev. G. Sheather, C.H.
scamen Stowart, Capt. Swinney, F Taffell, William Tal Afat
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Talpey, Cap, Frd, Tanner, J. B. Thiel, John F. A. 1 Thomson, Alex.
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Mattiol Whelton, Chao. 1 Willborg, Ch.
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Wright, James 1 Young, T., Mr
For Merchant Ships,
Letters containing Stamps should be Albyn's Inlo secured from observation.
Exceptional rates, to, the United King. drawinge, prints, or maps, and any quantity Places of business, if a wish to that effect stamping or from great pressure should be Registered, and the Stamps should be Allice
dom and Union Countries served through the United Kingdom via Brindisi only!-- Letters,
16 cents per on,
8 cents.
Registration,- Newspapers,
correspondence is invariably delivered at be expressed by the eender, otherwise all the nearest pince of business, (See Postal Guide, par. 109.)
A book-packet may contain any number of separate books or other publications (including printed or lithographed letters), photographs (when not on glass or in open containing glass or any like substance), of paper, or any other substance in ordinary uso for writing or printing upon; and the books or other publications, prints, maps, &o, may be either printed, written, en- a. Boxholders who desire to send Cireu- graved, lithographed, or plain, or any lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, mixture of these. Further, all legitimate do all of the same weight, to addreasen in binding, mounting, or covering of a book, Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China corre&o, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, and Japan, may deliver them to the Post whether such binding, do be loose or Office unstamped, the postage being then attached as also rollers in the case of charged to the sender's account, prints or mapa, markers (whether of paperbatch must consist of at least ten. or otherwise) in the case of books, pens or pencils in the case of pocket-books, do, and, in alfort, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, rollera, Franciscs, or Marveliza. Brindi&. must not be sent as a separate packet,
4 cents each. Books and Patterns, 6 cents per 2 oz. There is no charge on redirected spondence within the Postal Enion.
Postage to Non-Union Countries W. Africa, Falkland Islands, Lagos, Gold Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cape Verd Islands
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapers,
Via Cas Via S.Hampton",Fia
22
26
12
12
6
8..
Books & Patterna, —
10 Aspinwall (N.B.), Bahamas, Guatemala (N.), Hayti (N.R.), Mexico (K.R.) rabama (MR), Salvador (..), and Venezuela (N.E.):—
Letters,
Registration,
Newspapera,
Books & Patterns Đ B
16
31. 38 None. 12 12
4
6
10
Letters,
50
46
50
Newspapers,
6
B
8
Books & Patterns, 14
10
12.
12
Bolivia, Chili, Ecuador, and Peru:-
Registration,
* None. None, Hawaiian Kingdom (N.B.), Newfound
land →→→→
Lettera,
Registration,
Newspapere,
16 12
18
20
12
12
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6
8
Books & Patterna, 8*
*
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W. Indies, (except as above) Costa Rica, Honduras, Monte Video, Now Granada, and Nicaragus :-
Letters,
Newspapers,
Books & Pattarne,
Registration
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38
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10
8
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to British & Union West Indies only, f
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, Natal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascension:
Letters, by Contract Packet 24;, by Pri vate Ship 12, Registration, 12; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 4.
* A small extra charge is made on delivery.
Correspondence for the West Indies (except those belonging to the Foatal Unton, the Bahamas, and Hayti), for Costa Rica, Honduras, Monte Video, New Granada, Paraguay, and Uruguay can no longer be sent via San Francisco.
LOSAL AND TOWN POSTAGE,
Within any Town or Settle- ment, or between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either direction,.....
Lotters.
Registration. Newspapers.
Bks. & Pitna.
282 2 Between any other two of the following places (through & British Office) viz. -Hong! kong, Manso, Forts of China,
and Japan, Bangkok, Saigon, and the Philippines, by Pri
vate Shipmen 482 2
Between the above by Con-).
8894
Circulars,c., letters which are intend ed for transmission in identical terms to several persona, and the whole or the greater part of which is printed, engravod, or lithographed,inay also be sent by book post.
But a book-packet may not contain any letter, or communication of the nature of a letter (whether separate or otherwise), unless it be a circular-letter or be wholly priated; nor any enclosure sealed or in any way closed against inspection. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet is charged as a letter.
Each
4. Boxholders may also send Patterns:
to the same places in the same way. En- velopes containing Patterns may be wholly closed if the nature of the contents be first exhibited or stated to the Postmaster General, as he may consider necessary, and approved by him. Printed Circulars may
be inserted in such Pattern Packets,
Local Parcel Post
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Pest between any of the British Post Offices in China or Japan, as well as to Macao, Pak- hoi, Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, They must not exosed the following dimen sions, 2 fcot long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, nor weith more than 5lbs. The postage will be 20 cents per lb., which will include Registration. The parcels may be wholly closed if they bear this special endorse-
A book-packet may be posted eithermont, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LETTER, but without a cover (in which case it must not any parcel may be oponed by direction of be fastened, whether by means of gum, the Postmaster General. water, sealing wax, postage stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination; otherwise it is treated as a latter. For the greater security of the contente, however, it may be tied at the ends with string; Postmasters being authorised to out the string in such cases, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet.
No book packet may be above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or, 12 inches in depth, nnless it be sent to or from one of the Government offices.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, do, the transmia: sion or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the whole mail were dealt with without distinotion, book-packets may be kept back till the next despatch or delivery.
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FATTE LNG.
They must not be of intrinsis value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have a valus of its own, apart from Its mers use as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sent ostensibly no a pattern must not be so great that. It can fairly be con sidered as having on this ground an intrin
sic value.
-2. The following cannot be transmitted: Parcela insufficiently packed or protected, or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, c) Glass, Liquids, Explosive subatai ces, Matches, Indigo, Dyostoffe, Ice, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or likely to be- coms.offensive or injurious in transit.
3. Parcels will as a general rule, be for- warded by Private Ship, not by Contract- 3isil Fauket. The Post Office reserves the right of selecting the opportunity for trans- misalon, and of delaying delivery in case the number of parcels is such as to retard other correspondance. No responsibility
is accepted with regard to any parcel, but the oystem of Registration will secure the senders against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
The public are cautioned not to oon. found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Europe, do, which does not exist.
Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon.
The Philippine Islands being now admit. ted into the General Postal Union, it fol- lows that all paid correspondence received from Manila in the mails will be delivered free by this Office, and that all paid cor. respondence sent to Manila in the mails should be delivered free there.
To guard against auch injury all pustal packets which are likely to suffer from placed in strong covers; and even with this precaution no fragile artiole should be sont through the Foat. Itahould be remembered that every packet has to be handled several times; that it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mail bag; and that, whenever the bag has in the course of Its transmission to be transferred by means of the railway apparaton, the risk of injury ie much increased.
No information can be given respecting lettore which pass through a Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addressed and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public. & Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has по геавоп to believe that the person whose address it is would disapprove of his doing so.
Postmasters are not allowed to return any letter or other packet to the writer or sonider, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to auch effect bé written thereon,
Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money In paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness, or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.
Postmasters are not bound to weigh any lotters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded.
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indies, and other countries with hot climates, with wax (exempt such as is specially prepared), is attended with much inconvenience, and frequently with serious füjury, not only to the letters so sealed but to the other letters In the mail, from the melting of the wax and adhesion of the letters to each other. The public are therefore recommended, in all such cases, to use either wafers or gum, and to advise their correspondents in the coun- tries referred to, to do the same,
V Americe Arabella Beher, A.5. Brisbane Chale Colet
During the N,E.. Monsoon, the Charterers and Agents of sailing ships for Marita, Saigon and Bangkok are requested to give notice to the Post Office of the departures of such ships.
No correspondence will be forwarded by sailing vessel but such as is specially so directed.
The Stamp Office being now provided with a 3-cent die, Books of Receipts, Rent Collectors' Books, do, can be stamped Books. Loose receipt forms aan also bo beforehand in the same manner as Cheque
stamped if required."
Money Order Regulations.
1. Money Orders on the United King. dom and the Straits Settlements are issued at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama. Shanghai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa.
2.-Small sume may be remitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Stamp
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Chandos Charlton; 5.6. Chinaman City of Aberdeen Columbian, #.. 1 Commissary
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Philip Fitzpatrick! Presuits, $.8.
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Kuily Chaplain 10 Krania Estrono Fabius Faitoong, s.s.
Fair Lender Ferxilower, 8.8. Firth of Fourth Froeman Clark Globe
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residents at the smaller Purts in this way.
3-Many Money Orders are applied to Gylding, An application for an order is filled up, Hawkesbury and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsorted envelope to the Postmaster at Hindostan the nearest issuing office. Tho application Hopeful must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) in cheque, postage Hylton Castle stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Invincible little margin ahould be left for variations Irigo. of exchange. The Postmaster issues the James Shepherd order, sends it. on in the envelope, and Jessie MacDonald1 returns the change, if any, by first oppor- Lady Penilyn tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it were to be registered, as it always should be. Care should be taken to send these applications in time, as the Money Order Officea close some hours before the depar- tures of the mails.
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4.-No order must exceed £10, or fa- Magpie clade any fraction of a peuny. Orders will be drawn at the current rate of the dayt and paid at the rate of the day when the advice arrived,
The commission is as follows-
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Orders on the United Kingdom, Up to £2... 18 cents. £............ 36 £7............ 64 £10........ 73 Local Money Orders (including Straite Settlements).
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The registration of a packet makes its transmisalon much more secure, inasmuck. as, under ordinary circumstances, a regis. tered packet can be traced through its whole course; and thus the loss of a registered packet is a very rare occurrence. Neverthe less large sums of money or other articles of great value should not be sent through the post, even If the packet be registered ; as the machinery of the Department is not arranged with a view to such transmission, By law, the Post Office is not responsible for the bafe delivery of registered packata; though any officer who may neglect his duty on this point will be called to strict account. Sent in unregistered letters, valu- able articles are exposed to risk, and offer a temptation which ought not to be created; and the Department cannot in any way undertake the safe conveyance of such 5. Lists of Money Order Offices in the packets. All Inland or colonial letters, United Kingdom may be consulted at therefore, which contain coin, and all Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama. inland letters which contain watches or
6.-Names must be given in full (except jewellery, even though they be posted when there is more than one Christie's brought to the nosite of the proped, and charged on delivery with a double name) but the name of the Payce need not without registration, ere treated as register- registration fee of eightpence in addition to be given if the order be crossed (as cheques the ordinary pustage and any such letters are crossed). It can then be paid only which cannot be registered in time to be through a Bank, and may afterwards be forwarded by the Mall for which they are specially crossed to any Bank. posted are detained for the next despatch. Even if the latter do not contain any article of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very important, be registered.
Article IX of the Fontal Treaty of Berne provides that "Neither the senderator the addresseen of letters and other postal Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and packets shall be called upon to pay, either foreign countries is restricted to bona fide in the Conatry of Origin, or in that of trade patterns or samples of merchandise, Destination, any tax or duty other than" Goods sent for sale, or in execution of an the recognised rates levied (in the case of order (however small the quantity may be), paid correspondence) by the despatching or any szticles sont by one private indivi. Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, dual to another, which are not actual or apparently extra charge, will at once be patterns or camples, are not admissible.
Patterns or camples, when practicable, authorities, in elther Colony, must be sent in sovers opan at the ends, and in such a manner as to be easy of Samples of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot be soot in goture of this kind,but such articles | the mame course, only-may be posted enclosed in bozes, or bags of lush of other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds, &c., baga entirely closed, provided such closed baca are transparent, so as to enable the Officers of the Post Office readily to satinly themselves as to the nature of the con- sents.
examination.
There must be no writing or plating upon or in any packet except the address of the person for who it is intended, the Any publication fulfilling the conditions address of the sender, a trade mark of bereafter named can pass as a newépaper, number, and the price of the articles,
The conditions are as follows ZRÁGA
1st. The publication must consist wholly er in great part of political or other news te of articles relating, thereto, or to other current topics, with or without advertize
2nd. It must be published in numbers at Intervaju of not more than of days, and
The above does not apply in any to loose latters sent outside the mails. These will always be charged on arrival in Hongkong and probably the Halls Offse will adopt
Completate are sometimes received of extra charges on correspondence etchanged between this Colony and Salgon, but it is believed it would be found in all cases that the letters, da, had been sont loose...
Any Foreign stamps on loose corre: spondenes are obliterated in this Office.
Indian Correspondente. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packets.
The Pre-payment of correspondenta for the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden le com- pulsory by whatever opportunity it is forwarded.
Registration to Bangkok.
The rule which forbids the transmission tarotgh the Post of any artidle likely to injure the contents of the Mall Bags or
Her Britannia Majesty's Constil General Bozes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the for Slam has been good enough to make Pattern Post and a packet containing any arrangements by means of which correspon thing of the kind will be stopped, and not denge can be Registered to Bangkok, at the went to its destination Artising on pyetal charge of & cente,
Most countries to which Hongkong for wards Correspondence having joined the General Fustal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly absarved.
registered or inregistered, can be received. 1. No Letter or Packet, whether to ba for Fostage if it contains gold crailver money, jewels, propious articles or anything that, duties as a general rule, to liable to Customa
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articlei, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the satiple of no valde.
8. The limits of weight allowed are ad
follows
Books and Paper Bridih Gfices, 6 lbs. to the Continent, 25, 9 lbs.
Up to $20........15 conts..
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-No order can be paid till the Payse have signed it'in the proper place, an order can be transferred to another office en payment of an additional commission. In case of loss of an order, necessity for stopping payment, or the like, application should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructionz.
Tamar
Tokateu
For H. M. Ships.
Lets. Pap.
Late, Fig.
1 Victor Emanuel 2
Books, etc. without Covers.
Arbotaro Bladet. Armasterdamsche Courant.
Christadelphia,
Dagbladet,
Daily Recorder. De Aardo
Germanis.
Glasgow Wookly Mail.
Dlustrated Australian. Illustrated London News.
Journal de Genero.
L'Union Saveisienne,
Nautical Magasino. Navy List.
Fattern of Flannel.
Rotterdamsche Courant,
Beotsmen.
Siberian Mercantile Hauk Report 1877)
(Buzoian).
Sonderburger Zeltung
HONG LISTS.
Cironlar, large sheet.
8.--If the order be not presented within six months an additional commission will be charged; if not within twelve months, the money will be forfeited. When the "THE AMENDED HỌNG LIST order is once paid no further elain can be entertained.
8.-No order can be paid until the advice relative to it has been received.
in English and Chinese, con- taining the Names of all the most important Companies, Institutions and Mercantile Houses in the
• Made out on's printed form which is supplied | Colony.
gratis Loud Orders on Shanghai ere drawn at 3 per cent, premiera in all cases. A fixed det. lae rate for drawing on the United King dong is in force at Shanghai
Price, 25 cents each; or $2.50 per dozen.
At the " deles Mell!! Once,
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