No. 4948.-MAY 17, 1879.
3rd. The full title and date of publication POSTAL RATES.
must be printed at the top of the first page, [Subjoined we give the postal rates and the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every now in force for transmission of corre subsequent page; and this regulation applies spondence to all parts of the world. to Tables of Contents and Indices.
4th. A supplement must consist wholly Detailed rules affecting the transmisor in great part of matter like that of a sion of packets, parcels, &o,, will be newspaper, or of advertisements, piluted on a sheet or shents, or a piece or pleaos of found annexed, together with a number paper, unstitched; or wholly or in part of engravings, prints, or lithographe illustra- of miscellaneous and useful notices.]
Live of articles in the newspaper. The supplement must in every case be published with the newspaper, and must have the title and date of publication of the newspaper printed at the top of every pago; or, if it Donsists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, at the top of every sheet or side.
Hongkong Rates of Postage,
(Revised April 4th, 1879.).
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 se one, nor must anything whaterer be inserted Printed exoopt bona fide Supplements. matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Our rent may be paid seither as Newspapers or Books,
Commercial Papers signify such papers as, though Written by Hand, do not bear ⚫ the character of an notual or personal corto- spondence, such as luvoices, deeds, copied music, do. Any of them in a Book Packet expose it to the higher charges stated be low.
The sender of any Registered Artiole may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 4 cents.
The limit of weight for Books and Com mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is 4 lbs Patterns for such offices are limited to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by inches by 2 Inchos.
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N.R. means No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union. The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, most foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Chili, Brazil, Peru, The Argentine Kepublic, Jamaion, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermada, Labuan, with all Danist, French, Netherlands, Portuguese and Spanish Colonies.
Countries NOT in the Union. The chief countries not in the Union are the Aus tralasian Group.
Postage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any route ---
Letters,
Post Cards,
Registration,
Newspapers,
& cents per, oz.
8 cents each.
8 cents.
2 cents each.
Books and Patterns, 2 cents per 2 oz. Commercial Papers, 6 cents per 4 os.
THE CHINA MAIL.
of flowers, outlinge of plants, spurs, knives, | by British Packet, for ous penny; or viâ clandre, heedles, pink, pièces de machinery, Brindisi by British Packet for three-pence. sharp pointed Instruments, samples of Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass correspondence exactly the same an Imperial bottles, pisses of glass, solda of various klads, curry combs, copper and steel on- graving plates, and confectionery of all kinda.
Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch mashi nery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they be packed and 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.
A packet containing two or more now. To provide the greatest possible facilities papers is not chargeable with a higher rate fer posting Correspondence for Europe, of postage than would be chargeable on &c., up to the latest moment before the book packet of the same weight.
departure of the French Packets, arrange. The postage must be prepaid either by an ments have been made for receiving at the adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped Post Office Into letters except those to wrapper.
and through Australia from 11.16 m. to 11.30 AM. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 centa extra poitage..
Avery newspaper must be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, Bealing Waz, 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 a letter.
Every newspaper must be ao folded, as to admit of the title belog readily In- spected.
A newspaper or packet of newspapers which contains any enclosure except sup- plements 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 ita cover, is charged as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter,
No packet of newspapers may be above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above two feat in length, one foot in width, nor one in depth,
A similar supplementary Mail is made up for Shanghai by the English and French Contract Steamers, the late letters being receivedfrom 10 minutes after, ap to half an hour after the time of closing. The late fee is also 18 centa.
Miscellaneous Notices.
Local Delwery. 1-All correspondence posted before 5- p.m. on any week day for addresses in Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the delivery should be retarded by the Contract Mails.
12. Invitations, de, can generally be delivered within Vistoria at the private houses of the addressees rather than at places of business, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the sender, otherwise all correspondence is invariably delivered at the nearest place of business (See Postal Guide, par. 103.)
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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,"
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2. If from a Soldier or Sailor, his olass or description must be stated in full on the letter, and the commanding Officer must sign his name, with name of Regi ment, or Ship, &c., in full feel
8. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or description must be stated in full, with name of Regiment, or Ship, da, in full.
Mails for the United Kingdom, dc. by
French Packet.S
Under instructions from the London- Poat tffice, the Mails for the United King. dom which have hitherto been forwarded via Marseilles, will henceforth be forwarded vat Naples, as it is understood that a gain. of twelve hours results from the adoption of this route.
As it would be extremely inconvenient to divide the rail, and no practical advantage would result from doing so, all correspond enco intended for the United Kingdom by French Packet will be sent via Napier, even though marked via Marseilles,
An impression appears to prevail that correspondence for the Mediterranean ata tions, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, the Levant, Turkey, do, can be forwarded only by British Packet. It can be forwarded also by French Facket, and if 80 forwarded generally arrives & week earlier than if it had been detained for the British Mail.
The Post Office is not, by law, responsible for any loss or inconvenients which may arise from the non-delivery, mis-sending, or mis-delivery of any letter, book, or other postal packet (even if the packet be re- gistered), nor is the Post Office responsible for any injury which a packet may sustain during its transmission.
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Oorrespondence, May 15, 1879.
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PARCELS The public to reminded that, there is no such thing as Paros Post to Europe, do Much trouble and deap- pointment is caused by persistent attempts to send small valuable trifles through the Post. Fana, Curios, Articles of Dresd Fancy Work, and similar presents are con tinually being refused, the sonders having often spent more in Portage than would No 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 Aring, Aurelio de 1 in obtaining a general understanding of Atack Mypan what is a Pattern. It is a bona fide sample Avonchoyo Mr of goods which the sender has for sale, or Ayong, of goods which he wishes to order. It is Ayoon to consist of the smallest possible quantity Benton, C. J.
Benitez, Julio L. 2 compatible with shewing what the goods Blenkinsop, R., 1
are, and must have no intrinsic value."
To provide means of remitting small sams of money to or from this Colony and between the Forts of China and Japan, the Postmasters and Agents of this Office will in future he allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from. foreign residents,
Between Hongkong and Shanghal, or Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in either direction, Money-Orders must be Bsed.
The Stamps tendered for sals must not exceed $50 in value, must be perfectly clean, in good condition, and in strips of at least two, as no separate Stamps will be. purobased. They must be presented per- sonally or accompanied by a note,
The Postmaster or Agent may postpone purchasing if his public funds in hand are not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase in any cane which appears doubtful or suspicious. He is allowed to charge a Commission of one per cent on all Stamps purchased.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Lotter
The following Regulations as to the Indemnity to be paid in certain cases on the loss of Registered correspondence have been made by His Excellency the Governor under Ordinance 10 of 1876, Section XII,
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The Post Office is not tegally responsible for the safe delivery of Registered corres pondence, but henceforth it will be pre-ton pared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain cages, provided:-
To guard against such injury all postal lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, packets which are likely to suffer from o., all of the same weight, to addresses in stamping or from great pressure should be Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China placed in strong covers; and even with this and Japan, may deliver them to the Post preciation no fragile article should be sent Office unatamped, the postage being then through the Post. It should be remembered charged to the sender's account. Each that every packet has to be handled several batch must consist of at least ten.
times; that it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mail bag; and that, whenever the bag has in the course of ita transmission to be transferred by means1. That the sender duly observed-all-the-Jennet, Chas of the railway apparatus, the risk of injury ja much increased.
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 saces containing glass or any like substance), drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, or any other substance in ordinary use for writing or printing upon; and the books or other publications, prints, maps, go,, may be either printed, written, en- raved, lithographed, or plain, or any mixture of these. Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, do., or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, de, be loose or attached; as also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, pens or pencils in the case of pocket-books, dia,
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually between any of the British Post Offices in appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, China or Japan, as well na to Macao, Fak- & must not be sent as a separate packet. hoi, Singapore, Penang, and Malaoca.
Circulare,ie., letters which are intend
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 Fontmaster General, as ho may consider necessary, and approved by him. Frinted Circulars may
a inserted in such Pattern Packete,
Local Parcel-Post.
They must not exceed the following dimen.
Exceptional rates, to the United King-ed for transmission in identical terms to/sions, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep,
dom and Union Countries served through the United Kingdom via Brindisi only:--
12 cents per oz,
B-cents each.
Letters,
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Post Cards, Registration, Newspapers,
4 cents each.. Books and Patterns, 4 cents per 2 oz. Commercial Papers, 8 cents per 4 cz, There is no charge on redirected upondence within the Postal Union.
several persons, and the whole or the greater part of which is printed, engraved, or lithographed, may also be sent by book post.
But a book-paoket 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 corre-printed; nor any enclosure sealed or in any way closed against inspection. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet is charged as a letter.
Postage to Now Union-Countries. Aspinwall (..), Babamas, Guatemala (N.), Hayti (N.R.), New Granada (N.), Panama (N.R.), and Venezuela (N.R.) ;—
Via San Vía S Hampton Via
A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case It must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing wax, p.stage stamp, or
will be 20 cents per lb., which will include nor weigh more than 5lbs. The postage Registration. The parcels may be wholly closed if they bear this special endorse- ment, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LETTER, but any parcel may be opened by direction of the Postmaster General.
2. The following cannot be transmitted: Parcels insufficiently packed or protected, or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, &c.) Glass, Liquide, Explosive substances, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, Ice, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Maile, or likely to be come offensive or injurious in transit.
8. Parcels will as a general rule be for- warded by Private Ship, not by Contract
No information can be given respecting letters which pass through a Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addrested; and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public. A Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has no reason 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 sender, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be written thereon,--
Postmastere are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change and when money is paid at a Poat Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amicunt, goodness, or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the counter.
Poatmasters are not bound to weigh any letters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be zot thereby
impeded.
conditions of Registration require.
2. That the letter was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong envelope.
8. That application was made to the Postmaster General of Hongkong im- mediately the loss was discovered, the envelope being invariably forwarded with such application unless it also is lost.
4. That the Postmaster General iz satis- fied that the loss occtirred whilst the corres- pondence was in the custody of the British Postal administration in Chine, that it was not caused by any fault on the part of the sender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, nor by the dishonesty or negligence of any person not in the employment of the Hongkong Post Office.
5. No compensation can be paid for mere damage to tragile articles such as portraits, Watches, handlaumely botted books, which reach their destination, although in a broken or deteriorated condition..
Money Order Regulations. 1.-Money-Orders on the United King dom and the Straits Settlements are laaned at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokobama. Shanghai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa.
2.-Small sums may be remitted between
Stampa
Francisca, or Marecilies. Brindis otherwise) or in a' cover entirely open atlail Packet. The Post Office reserves-the- and from the East and West Indica, and the other Ports by means of Postage
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string in such caser, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet,
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Letters,
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Немерареге,
No book-packet may be above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, None. 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government offices.
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Newspapers,
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Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, Natal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascension.
Lettera, by Contract Packet 24'; by Pri Tate Ship 12, Registration, B Newspapers, 2. Books and Patterns, 4.
A small extra charge in made on delivery.
LOBAL AND TOWN POSTAGE.
Letters.
Registration.
Newspapers.
"Biz & Pitas.
Per 2 oz.
Within any Town or Settle- ment, or between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either direction....................monoimma. 282 2 ** Between any other two of the following i laces (through British tffice) vix-Hong- kong, Macao, Ports of China and Japan, Bangkok, Cochin China, Tonquin, and the Phi
lippines, by Private Ship,.....4822
Between the above by Con- tract Mail,miamsi 8 §22
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, etc., the transmis nion or delivery of the letters would be delayed if the whole mail, were dealt with without distinction, bock-packets may be kept back till the next despatch or delivery.
PATTERNS,
They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have a value of its own, apart from its mereuse as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.
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The practice of soaling letters passing to right of selecting the opportunity for trans- other countries with hot climater, with wax mission, and of delaying delivery in case
attended with much inconvenience, and
3.Many Money Orders are supplied to Colwyn the number of parcela is such as to retard (except such as is specially prepared),, is other correspondence. No responsibility frequently with serious injury, not only to residents at the smaller Ports in this way. Coma
the letters so sealed but to the other letters/An application for an order* is filed RP: Coronilla is accepted with regard to any parcel, but
Craigard the system of Registration will secure the in the mail, from the melting of the wax and and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, senders against any but a very remote-pro-adhesion of the letters to each other. The and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at Craigiu Lea
The application Drumclog bability of loss.
public are therefore recommended, in all the nearest issuing office.
must be accompanied with the full amount Earl of Devon 4 (1 rg.) 1 Rifemen 4. The public are cautioned not to con found these facilities with a Parcel Post to
suo cases, to use either wafers or gum, and (including commission) in cheque, postage E. C. Muteb 1 to advise their correspondents in the coun-
atamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Elizabeth Europe, &c., which does not exist.
tries referred to, to do the same.
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of exchange. The Postmaster issues the Ella Beatrice order, sends it on in the envelope, and Fei Hu, s.s. returns the change, if any, by first oppor- Firth of Forth tunity, with receipt for the letter, if it Fontane tered packet can be traced through its whole were to be registered, an it always should
applications in time, as the Money Order Gasket Lure(s) Bydleniaks course; and thus the loss of a registered be. Care should be taken to send these
Offices close some hours before the depar G. C. Trufant tures of the mails.
Glamis 4-No order must exceed £10, or in- Glamorganshire clude any fraction of a penny. Orders will Golden Rule be drawn at the current rate of the dayt | Goles and paid at the rate of the day when the Hakone- advico arrived.
Mails éxchanged with Manila and Saigon.
The registration of a packet makes its The Philippine Islande being now admit- tsausmission much more secure, inasmuch ted into the General Postal Union, it fol-, under ordinary circumstances, & regis. lows that all paid correspondones received from Manila in the mails will be delivered free by this Uffice, and that all paid cor-Bucket is a very rare théatrenos, Neverthe respondence sent to Manila in the mails a large sums of money or other articles should be delivered free there,
of great value ahould 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 reponsible for the safe delivery of registered packels; 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 undertako the safe conveyance of kuoli All in.and or colonial letter,
Article IX of the Postal Treaty of Berne provides that "Neither the senders nor the addressees of letters and other postal packets shall be called upon to pay, either in the Country of Origin, or in that of Destination, any tax or duty other than" the recognised rates levied (in the care of paid correspondenas) by the despatobing Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at once be brought to the noice of the proper authorities, in either Colony,
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The commission is as follow
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Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries is restricted to bond fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise, Goode sent for sale, or in execution of an order (however small the quantity may be), or any artioles sent by one private indiv. the same course, dual to another, which are not actual pay extra charges on correspondence exchanged [registration fes of eightpenos in addition to United Kingdom may be consulted at belo terns or samples, are not admissible,
Fatterns or samples, when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the ends, and in such a manner as to be easy of examination. Samples of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which sannot be sent in sovera of this kind, but such articles only, -may be posted enclosed in bozes, or baga of linen or other material, fastened in euch a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds dic, in baga entirely alased, provided such closed bags are trans parent, so as to enable the Officers of the Fost Uffles readily to satisfy themselves as forwarded.". to the nature of the contents
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Lets. Fi
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Books, etc. without Covers.
The above does not apply in any to loose packets. letters sent outside the mails. These will therefore, which contain coin, and all always be charged on arrival in Hongkong inland letters which contain watches of and probably the Manila Cce will adopt Jewellery, even though they be posted Up to $20........15 cents.
5080 without registration, are treated as register. Complaints are sometimes received ofed, aud charged un delivery with a double 5-Lists of Money Order Offoes in the between this Colony and Saigon, but it is the ordinary postage and any such letters Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama. believed it would be found in all cases that watch cannot be registered in time to be
6-Names must be given in full (axcopt the letters, dro, bad been rent loose.
forwarded by the Mall for which they are when there is more than ons Christian Any Foreign stamps on loose corre posted are detained for the next despatchiname) but the name of the Payee need not ven if the letter do not contain any article be given if the order be crossed (as obeguva spondence are obliterated in this Office,
of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very
It can then be paid only are crossed). important, be registered.
through a Bank, and may afterwards be
Ardrossan and Baltcoats Herald, specially crossed to any Bank.
7No order can be paid till the Payee Central Blatt.
An Christian Age, have signed it in the proper phos. on payment of an additional commission. order can be transferred to another office Christian
Church Tipés. In case of loss of an order, moo-gaity for
Crezelder Zeitung stopping payment, or the like, application Daily Telegraph. should be made to the nearest Money Dealgaker Heads-Unisiger.
Dundeo Advertisers Order Ofile for instructions.
8. If the order be not presented within Figaro.
Indian Correspondence. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packet.
The Pre-payment of correspondence for the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden is como pulsory by whatever opportunity. It is
Registration to Bangkok,
Most countries to which Hongkong for wards Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.
1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be There must be no writing or printing
registered or uuregistered, can be received upon or in any packet except the address of
For Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Postageifitcontains gold or silver money, the person for whom it is intended, the ad for Slam has been good enough to make jewels, precious articles, or anything that, dress of the sender a trade mark or num arrangements by means of which correspon as a general rule, in liable to Customs
dence can be Registered to Bangkok, at the duties Any publication fulfilling the ponditionsber, and the price of the articles.
The rule which forbide the transmission | banal ebarge of 8 canta.
9. This Regulation prohibits the sending through the Post of any article likely to |-
of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the Injure the contents of the Mall Bage or
quantity sent be so small as to make the Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the
ample of no value,
beresiter usmed can pass as a nonspaper, **
The conditions are as follows : 1st. The publication must consist wholly Ur in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other Current topics, with or without advertise
[imenta,
and. It must be published in number at Intervals of not more than 31 days, and nat be printed on a sheet or sheets un.
Soldiers and Ballors' Letters.
Post Office in, of bots applicable to the Privates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non. Pattern Post; and a packet containing any; commissioned Officers,* Army Schoolmas-- thing of the kind will be stopped, and nosters (not superintending or First Class) or sent to its destination. Articles such as | Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters the following have been occasionally posted to the United Kingdom via Southampton as Patterns, and have been detained as
unds for the Post, vini Metal bozos, porce
* Bai not Warrant Officers, vinis Aaletäst Isis and Chius, fruit, vegetables, bonskas - Zaglesar, Ganser, Bestswain) er Carpentary
8. The limits of weight allowed- are 20 follows
Books and Papers-to-British Offs 5, 5 lbe, to the Continent, &c., 4 lbs. Patterns to British Ofices, 5 lbs. if withe ous intrinsic value; to the Continent,
six months an additional commission will Gassetta del Villaggio, be charged; if not within twelve months, Germania. the money will be forfeited. When the Herts and Essex Observer. order la once paid no further claim can be Hobos Brems (Russian) entertained.
9.-No order can be paid until the advice relative to it has been received,
* Made out of a printed form which is supplied
gratin.
4 Local Orders' on Shanghai are drewn at 8 per
cent, premium in all essen. A fixed dol bar ants for drawing on the United King: dom is in force at kihanghai,
Journal de Gand
Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper. Mission Cattolicha, Montage Zeltung. Nairnshire Telegraph. National Zeitung. Ferseveranse.
Frels Convins (Louis Muller); Belar
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