No. 5044. SEPTEMBER 6, 1879.]
POSTAL BATES.
[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, de, will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices.]
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 se double, treble, &o, as the
3rd. The full title and date of publication must be printed at the top of the first page, and the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every subsequent page; and this regulation applies to Tables of Contents and Indices.
THE CHINA MAIL.
of flowers, outtings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pine, pleces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in glass bottles, pieces of glass, acids of various kinds, curry combe, copper and steel en 4th. A supplement must consist wholly graving plates, and confectionery of all or in great part of matter like that of a | kluds. newspaper, or of advertisements, printed Buch articles, un acissors, knivee, razors, habeat or sheets, or a place or pieces of forks, steel pene, nails, keys, watch machi- paper, unstitched ; or wholly or in part of engravings, prints, or lithographs Illustra, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they be packed and tive of articles in the newspaper. The guarded in so secure a manner-as-to-afford supplement must in every case be published complete protection to the contents of the with the newspaper, and must have the mall bags and to the Officers of the Poat title and date of publication of the newspaper Office, while at the same time they may be printed at the top of every page; or, if it easily examined, may be sent as samples. consista of engravinga, prints, or lithographe, Indigo cannot be sent to any place. at the top of every shoot or side.
A packet containing, two or more DOWS- papera is not chargeable with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.
by British Packet, for one penny; or viê Brindisi by British Packet for three-pence, Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of correspondence exactly the same as imperial Stampa
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. No double letters are allowed.
3. It from a Soldier or Sailor, his class or deacafption must be stated in full on the letter, and the commanding Officer must sign his name, with name of Regi- ment, or Ship, ds, in full.
B. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or description must be stated in full, with name of Regiment, or Ship, do, in full.
No
PARCELS. The publid is reminded that, there is no such thing as Parcel Foat to Europe, &c. Much trouble and dimp pointment is caused by persistent attempts to send small valuable trifles through the Post. Fans, Curice, Articles of Dress Faney Work, and similar presents are con- tinually being refused, the senders having often spent more in Postage than would have paid the freight by a camer. rofund can be made on such parcels of the value of Stamps obliterated before the nature of the contents was discovered.
PATTERNO.--Some difficulty is experienced "in obtaining a general understanding of what is a Pattern. It is a bond fide cample 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
To provide the greatest possible facilities Mails for the United Kingdom, do. by compatible with shewing what the goods for posting Correspondence for Europe, &c., up to the latest moment before the
French Packet. departure of the French Packets, arrange- Post Office late letters-except those to and through Australia-from 11.10 AM, to 11,80 &M. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 cents extra postage.
case may bey but such papers or packets of adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped/ments have been made for receiving at thedom which have hitherto bron-forwarded between the Ports of China and Japan, the
papersfmay be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona fido Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate, Prices Cur- rent may be paid either as Newspapers or Booka
The postage must be prepaid either by an
wrapper.
Every newspaper must be posted either without a cover in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gam, wafer, sealing wax, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of easy removal for examination. If the rule be infringed the newspaper is treated sa a letter.
Every newspaper must be so folded, as to admit of the title being readily in
Commercial Papers signify much paper as, though Written by Hand, do not bear the character of an actual or personal correspected, spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied music, do. Any of them in a Book Packet exponellt to the higher charges stated be
How,
The sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 4 cents,
A newspaper or packet of newspapera. which ocntalas 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 suficiently prepaid as a book packet, in which case it is allowed to pass.
A newspaper which has any letter,, or any The limit of weight for Books and Com-communication of the nature of a letter, mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is written in it or upon its cover, is charged 4lbs. Patterns for such offices are limited as an unpaid or insufliciently paid letter. to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these
No packet of newspapers may be above dimensions: B inches by Inches by 25 lbs. in weight, nor above two feet in length, ous foot in width, nor one in depth.
Inches.
N.K. means No Registration.
A similar supplementary Mail la made up for Shanghai by the English and French Contract Steamers, the late letters being receivedfrom 10 minutes after, up to half an hour after the time of closing. The late fee is also 18 cents.
Miscellaneons Kotices,
Local Delwery,
1. All correspondence poated 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.
delivered within Victoria at the private 2. Invitations, dc, can generally be bouses of the addressees rather than at places of business, if a wish to that effect correspondence is invariably delivered at be expressed by the sender, otherwise all
the nearest place of business. (See Postal Guide, par. 108.)
8. Boxholders who desire to send Circu- lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cardo, &c., all of the same weight, to addresses in and Japan, may deliver them to the Post Office unstamped, the postage being then charged to the sender's account. batch must consist of at least ten.
Each
4 Boxholders way also sond 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,
are, and must bave no intrinsic value. Under instructions from the London
To provido means of rewitting small Post tftico, the Mails for the United Kingeams of money to or from this Colony and via Marzeitles, will henceforth be forwarded Postmastere and Agents of this Office will Naples, as it is understood that a gain in future be allowed (but not required) to of twelve houre resulta from the adoption purchase Hongkong Postage Stamps from
foreign residents
of this route.
An it would be extremely inconvenient to divide the mail, and no practical advantage would result from doing so, all correspond- enco intended for the United Kingdom by French Packet will be sent via Naples, oven though marked via Marseilles.
Between Hongkong and Shanghai, or Hongkong and Yokohama, however, in either direction, Money Orders must he
used.
The Stamps tondered for sale mnet not An impression appears to prevail that exceed 850 in value, must be perfectly sorrespondence for the Mediterranean sta- clean, in good condition, and in strips of at tions, Libraltar, Malta,
Cyprus, the Levant, least two, as no soparalu Stamps will be Turkey, &, can be forwarded only by purchased. They must be. presentod per British Packet. It can be forwarded alsoonally or accompanied by a noto, by French Facket, and if so forwarded
The Postmaster or Agent may postpone generally arrives a week earlier than if it
purchasing if his public funds in hand aro not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase In any case which appears doubtful or He is allowed to charge a auspicious. Commission of one per cent on all Stamps purchased,
had been detained for the British Mail.
The Post Office is not, by law, responsible for any loss or inconvenience 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 responsiblo for any jury which a packet may sustain
during its transmission,
To guard against. such injury all postal packets which are likely to suffer from stamping or from great pressure should be Precanh chap fragile article should be sent through the Past. It should be remembered that every packet bas to be handled several times; that it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mail bag; and hat, whenever the bag has in the course of its transmission to be transferred by means of the railway apparatus, the risk of injury is much increased.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Letter, Indemnity to be paid in certain cases on The following Regulations as to the
been made by His Excellency the Governor. the loss of Kegistered correspondence have under Ordinance 10 of 1870, Section XII.
The Post Ollico is not legally responsible pondence, but henceforth it will be pro- Pared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Punt, to the extent of $10, in certain cases, provided
conditions of Registration require.
I. That the sender duly observed all the
2. That the letter was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong onvelope.
A book-packet may contain any number Countries of the Postal Union.
of separate books or other publications The Union may be taken to comprise (including printed or lithographed letters), Europe, most foreign possessions In Asis, photographs (when not on glass or in cases Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all containing glass or any like substance), Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China Placed in strong cover; and even with this for the safe delivery of Registered corrca- N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Obili, drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity Brazil, Peru, The Argentine Republic, of paper, or any other substance in ordinary Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, use for writing or printing upon; and the Bermuda, Labuan, with all Danish, books or other publications, prints, maps, French, Netherlands, Portuguese and &c., may be either printed, written, en- Spanish Colonies.
kraved, lithographed, or plain, or any Countries NOT in the Union.-The chief mixture of these. Further, all legitimate countries not in the Union are the Aur-binding, mounting, or covering of a book, tralasian Group.
do, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whather, soob blading, &c. be loose or attached; as also rollera in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, pen or pencils in the case of pocket-books, &o, and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safo transmission of such articles, or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, rollora, &a, must not be sent as a separate packet,
Circulars,-i.a, letters which are intend. ed for transmission in identical terms to several persona, and, the whole or the greater part of which is printed, engraved, or lithographed,may also be sent by book post.
Postage to Union Countries.. General Rates, by any rento
Letters,
Post Cards,
Registration, Newapapers,
8 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 oz.
Exceptional rates, to the United King- dom and Unton Countries served through the United Kingdom via Brindisi only:--- Letter
12 cents per oz.
Post Cards,
Registration,
Newspapers,
5 cents each.
8 cents.
4 cents each.
Books, and Patteros, 4 cents per 2 oz. Commercial Papers, 8 cents per 4 oz.
:
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 way closed against inspection. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet charged as a letter.
Local Parcel Post..
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post between any of the British Post Offices in China or Japan, a well as to Macao, Pak hol, Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, They must not exceed the following dimen- sions, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, nor weigh more than Elbs. The postage will be 20 cents per Ib., which will include 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.
There is no charge on redirected corro-printed; nor any enolcanre sealed or in any Parcels insufficiently packed or protected,
spondence within the Postal Union.
Postage to Non-Union Countries, Aspinwall (N..), Bahamas, Guatemala (N.), Hayti (N.2.), New Granada (N.B.), Panama (..), and Venezuela (N.R.):—
Via San Via S.Hampion Via Francisco. or Marseilles. Brindisi
Bolivia, Costa Rica (x.B.),
A book-packett may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, 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 greater security of the contents, however, Ecuador it may be tied at the ends with string
Postmasters being authorised to cut the string in such caser, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet.
Letters, Registration, None.
12
30
34
8
8
Newspapers,
$
4
6
Books & Patterns, G
6
8
(..), Nicaragua (N.B.):--
Lottare,
20
80
34
Newspapers,
4
6
Books & Patterns, 12
8
8
Registration,
8
None.
Hawaiian Kingdom ---
Lettway
Registration,
Newspapers,
12 Nope. 4*
12 None,
16 None,
$
6
6
8
Books & Patterns, 6*
otherwise it is treated as a letter. For the
No book-packet may be above 5 lbs. Noue. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in deptb, unless it bo sent to or from one of the Government offices.
2. The following cannot be transmitted: or liable to bo crushed (as bandboxes, &c.) Glase, Liquido, Explosive substances, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, lee, Moat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or likely to be come offensive or lojurious in transit.
3. Parcele will as a general rule be for warded by Private Ship, not by Contract Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the right of selecting the opportunity for trene mission, and of delaying delivery in case the number of parcela is such as to retard other correspondence, No responsibility is accepted with regard to any parcel, but the system of Registration will secure the sonders against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
4. The public are cautioned not to con- found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Europe, &o, which does not exist.
No information can be given respecting letters which pass through a Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addressed; and in no other way in official information of a private character allowed to be made ublic. 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.
Pustmasters are not allowed to return any letter or other packet to the writer or sender, or to any one che, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, oven though a request to such effect be written thereon.
Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money te paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question ss to its right amunt, goodness, or weight can be entertained after it has been removed from the connter.
Postmasters are not bound to weigh any letters or other packets for the pubic, bat impeded. they may do so if their duty be not thereby
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indice, and other countries with hot climates, with wax (except such as is specially prepared), is attended with much inconvenience, and frequently with serious injury, 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.
Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon. *The Philippine Islands being now admit- ted into the General Postal Union, it folas, lows that all paid correspondence received
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, September 5, 1879.
Lety. Pap.
Lots, Pay Massey, Mr } Mathor, H. L.. 1
1
McCarter, Dr.
1 bk.
1
MoDonald, D. N. 3
1
McGregor, Miss 1
McGregor, Mr 1
Mitchell, Ed. 1
Morton & Co., 1
Messrs Marphy, P.
Arderm, H. M. 1 Bainbridge, Rev. I Baller, Birs Bavarelien, F. Bellanaivn, A. Bessert, Albert 1 Boyle, E. R. 1 Brinlow, John 1 British Empire, Proprietor of Bourbon, Chas. 1 card O'Brien, Timothy 1 Buchanan, Wm. Palmeira, Dolores 1
Engineer.
Phillips, RM 1 Cabelder & Co., Butler, S. E.
Micuera Ching (Seaman) 1 Comish, Rob,!1
B.CKS.
1
Cook, Arthur B. 1
1
Condey, Charlos Cook, Capt. A, B. Į Cune, J. M. Daniels, Thos. 2
Clas. Deering, Wm. II. 1 Doughty, A. F. 1 Downey,Thos.G. 1 Epnes, John Falkoner, Hy Fonsing, Louis Gardner & Co. 1 Frescoen, M. N. 1
George, Hyrapiol 1 Goyer, May Grinter, Walter 1 Grossberger &Co.1 Habel, Fran Haas, Alexander 1 Hackorf, Hartanan, J.
Bernardo
Hi Chucri
1
Joo He Liong Khoo Bee Chong 1 Klovekorn, Konepfor, Monar. 1 Knipers, T. II. Kohler, Robert 1 Lee, Edward 2 Legg, John Chs, 3 Leonard Clarence2 Lofholm, N. Lone, J.
Lumley, J. MacCarthy, Dr. C. E. Mangeot, M.
Pitcher, Chas. A, 1 Plantero, Sr. Juan 1 Primavesi, A.
Qnong Wong
Guon
6
1 regd.
1.
Kadust, Moner. J.1 Renonf, G.-E. Rizzo, Sigr, G. 1 Rochester, W. H. 1 Rose, Thos. Roza, Filomezza Rushbrook, A. 1.
1 1
Rushton, E. H. 1
Santos, Marcelinol Shang Wan Chong1.regd. Sherman, MissĮ
Pauline
2 Sherwood, Mr
1
I
Silva, Jose Fco. 1
Smith, Thos. F. 2
Sohelkoly, T.
1
1-
Sorah, J.
Stanford, B. R. 2 bks. regd.Stent, Dr.
Samimera, Harry 1
19 Talcott, Mrs G.Ć.1
Tan Beng Tak 6
1
Tan Pak Chae I
1
Taylor, Wm. Kerr
1
1.
1
I
Thornton Sil-
Tay-fook, Mrs
Vester
1 card Trannock, Rov,
4
Van Brenit, F. B.1
1
Vaughan, J.
2
Vernon, H.,
(Opera Co.)
Warren, J. J.
2 Wheeler, H. B. Wing Chong
Photographer
1
Woodlief, Miss JI
1
4
1
Lille
I
Yam Kow
1
1
7 Zairo, Monar.
1
Maryites, A. M. 1
Detained for Postage..
Koo Kam, shop
G. Y. M. G. A. Honolula
Sandwich Islands
1 pareol
1 lettor 24 cents to pay.
For Merchant Ships.
Abbey Cowper Ala
3. That application was made to the mediately the loss was discovered, tho Postmaster General of Hongkong im envelope being invariably forwarded with sach application unless it also is lost.
4. That the Postmaster General is satis-Adolph pondence was in the custody of the British fied that the loss occurred whilst the corres-
l'ostal administration in China, that it was not caused by any fault on the part of the sender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, nor by the disko. csty or negligence of any person not in the employment of the Llongkong Post Oflice.
damage to fragile articles such as portraits, 6. No compensation can be paid for mere
watelies, handsomely bound books, o, which reach their destination, although it a broken or deteriorated condition.
Money Order Regulations. L-Mousy Orders on the United King dom and the Straits Settlements are issued at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama, Shanghai and Yokohama also isque on Hongkong and vice versa.
2. Small sums may be remitted between the other Forts by means of Postage Stamps.
Hazelharst
Lets. Pap.
1 Helena
Ι
Albyn's Isla Alexa Alexander Newton
7
1
.2
Alexander Yents 12 -Alles
1
1
Anna Bertha Annie Weston
Lots, Pap
9
4
Hermine
4 Hibernia
Homewood Hopeful
Jane Avory
2 Janet
Jossio Jamieson
John C. Manro Kainow
Karo, 8.8.
Kim Yong Tya 1. Kirkland
1
Lancashire Witobl
Anguste
Aurora
1
Nan Les
1
Bathlor
1
Beandtha
I
Large
Bell of Oregon
Loter
Belloner
1
Martha Davis
Belled Will
1
Melbrek
Benjamin Ayman!
Bertie Biglow-
1
3 Nardoo
I
Black Watch Bou Cano Callao
Салдасо Carton
Carry Wyman Ceylon Celestial, 5.5,
Charity City of Santi-
Charmer
Clare
ngo, 5.6,
Clara Babayan
Coren
W. Indies (except as above), Paraguay, delayed if the whole mail were dealt with from Manila in the mails will be delivered tezed packet can be traced through ite whole were to be registered, as it always should Edith
Uruguay
Letters,
Newspapers, Books & Patterns, Registration,
to British & Union) West Indies only,
**
30
34
6
6
8
8
8
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, Natal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascension.
Letters, by Contract Packet 24; by Pri- rate Ship 13, Registration, 8; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 4.
* Asmall extra charge is made on delivery.
LOCAL AND TOWN POSTAGE.
Within any Town or Sattle- ment, or between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either
rection.
Letters.
Registration.
Newspapers
282
Brs. & Pitna.
For 2 oz.
2
Between any other two off the following places (through Britlah Office) viz:-Hong- kong, Macao, Ports of China and Japan, Bangkok, Cochin China, Tonquin, and the Phi lippines, by Private Ship, 48 22
Between the above by Con tract Mail,..
882 2
Any publication fulfilling the conditions hereafter named can pass as a newspaper,
The conditions are as follows
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, eto, the transmis sion or delivery of the letters would be without distinction, book-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, town, apart from its mere use as a pattern; and indeed, whatever may have a value of
and the quantity of any material seat ostensibly as a pattera must not be so great that it can fairly be considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.
Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries is restricted to bond fide trade patterns or samples of merchandist. Gooda seat for sale, or in execation of ar order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private indivi- dual to another, which are not actual pat- terns or samples, are not admissible.
Patterns 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 sach like articles, which cannot be sent in covers of this kind, but such articles only, -may be posted enclosed in boxes, or baga of linen or other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds &c., in bags entirely closed, provided such closed bags are trans- parent, so as to enable the Officers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves as
to the nature of the contents.
tree by this Uffice, and that all paid cor- respondence sent to Manila in the mails should be delivered free there,
Article 1 of the Postal Treaty of Berna provides that "Neither the senders nor the addressees of letters and other postal packets shall be called upon to pay, either Destination, any tax or duty other than" In the Country of Origin, or in that of
the recognised rates levied (in the case of paid correspondence) by the despatching Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at once be brought to the notice of the proper authorities, in either Colony,
letters sent outside the mails. These will The above does not apply in any to loose always be charged on arrival in Hongkong and probably the Manila Office will adopt the same course,
Complaints are sometimes received of extra charges on correspondence exchanged between this Colony and Saigon, but It is believed it would be found in all cases that the letters, &c., had been sont loose. ** spondence are obliterated in this Office.
Any Foreign stamps on loose corre
Indian Correspondence. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packets.
4-No order must exceed £10, or la- clude any fraction of a penny. Orders will be drawn at the current rate of the day! and paid at the rate of the day when the advice arrived.
Memnon
Miriam
Nehemiah Gibeon4 Nettie Merryman 2 Norman Court
N. Boynton
N. Pendelton
1 Orinoco
Pegasas, 5.8.
Pondragon
Penrith
1
1
1 regd.
R. M. Maywerd 1
1 Rover of the Seas 5
Bourabaya Packet1
Southern Cross. 1
-Sunbeam, s.5.
Spartun
1
2
2
9
1
Petrel, a.s.
1
Phillip Fitz.
7
patrick
Pilgrim
Pompero
1
Prima Donna
1
Prosperity
1
Pyin
B
1
Queen of EnglandI
2
1 Queen Pumia
2
1
1
Irg.
2
1
1
Star of the South 1
4
Staut
1
Stonewall Jackson1
2
"Stoveiot
1
Strathmore
5
2 Sydenham-
8
Syria,*8.8.
1
Thingvalla, 6.6. 2
Three Brothers 8
Freeman
Tigre
Gurtwin
1
Gauntlet
1
Gitanilla
Glamorganshire 5 Glory
1 Vanguard
Vesuvius
1 Victory
Golwyn
Wero
Hattie E. Tapley 5 Haze Hazet Holme
Yuen Alon
Zephyr
Zouare
Nicholson Esmeralda. Fabius Falcon Ferntower, 5.8.
Fiery Cross Florence
Nightingale Forward Frank Morrison 1
The commission is as follows
Orders on the United Kingdom..
Up to £2......
18 cente. £ỡ.
36 £7...... 54 £10.......... 72
Settlements).
Local Money Orders (including Straits Golwan
32
91
13
11
*J
"
3.Many Money Orders are supplied to residenta at the smaller Perts in this way. An application for an order is filled up, and ia enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest issuing office. The application Claverhouse, 9.9. 2 must be accompanied with the full amount Clu (including commission) in cheque, postage Coldingham stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Como little margin should be left for variations Coolader, 5.5.
The Postmaster issues the Coronilla of exchange. The registration of a packet makes its order, sonds it on in the envelope, and Crossfeld transmission much more secure, inasmuch returns the change, if any, by irst oppor- Crossbill
under ordinary circumstances, a regis.tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it Drumclog conrac and thus the loss of a registered be. Care ahould be taken to send these E. M. Young packet is a very rare occurrence. Neverthe applications in time, as the Money Order Elizabeth less large sums of money or other articles Offices cloes some hours before the depar- of great value should not be sent through lures of the mails. the post, even if the packet bo registered; as the machinery of the Department is not arranged with a view to such transmission, By law, the Post Office fa not responsible though any officer who may neglect his for the safe delivery of registered pockets;
duty on this point will be called to strict account, Sent in unregistered lettera valu- able articles are exposed to risk, and offer a temptation which ought not to bo created; and the Department cannot in any way undertake the safe conveyance of such therefore, which contain coin, and all All inland or colonial lettere, packets. inland letters which contain watches or jewellery, even though they be posted without registration, are treated as register. ed, and charged in delivery with a double registration fee of eightpence in addition to the ordinary postage; and any such letters which cannot be registered in time to be
6 Names must be given in full (except forwarded by the Mail for which they are when there is more than one Obristian Sheldrake posted are detained for the next despatch.name) but the name of the Payes need not Even if the letter do not contain any article be given if the order be crossed (as obeques of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very are crossed). It can then be paid only through a Bank, and may afterwards be specially crossed to any Bank,
7.-No order can be paid till the Payee have signed it in the proper place. An order can be transferred to another office on payment of an additional commission, In case of loss of an order, necessity for 1. No Latter or Packet, whether to be should be made to the nearest Money stopping payment, or the like, application registered or u: registered, can be received | Order Office for instructions. jewels, precious articles, or anything that, six months an additional commission will for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, 8.-If the order be not presented within as a general rule, in liable to Customs be charged; if not within twelve months, duties.
the money will be forfeited. When" the 2. This Regulation prohibits the sending order is once paid no further claim can be of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the entertained. quantity sent be so small as to make the 9.-No order can be paid until the advice sample of no value..
relative to it has been received.
| important, be registered.
Most countries to which Hongkong. for- The Pre-payment of correspondence forwards Correspondence baving joined the the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden is com General Postal Union or being probably pulsory by whatever opportunity it about to do so, it is necessary that the
following rules be strictly observed.
forwarded.
-
Registration to Bangkok.
There must be no writing or printing apon or in any packet except the address cf the person for whom it is intended, the ad- for Siam has been good enough to make Ber Britannic Majesty's Consul General dress of the sender, a trade mark or num- ber, and the price of the articles.
arrangements by means of which correspon The rule which forbids the transmission dense can be Registered to Bangkok, at the through the Post of any article likely to usual charge of 8 cents. lojure the contents of the Mail Bags or 1st. The publication must consist wholly Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the or in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topios, with or without advertise- 2nd. It must be published in numbers at intervals of not more than 31 days, and must be printed on a sheet or sheets un.
titched.
Post Office in, of course, applicable to the Pattern Post; and a packet containing any thing of the kind will be stopped, and not sent to its destination. Articles such as the following have been occasionally posted as Patterns, and have been detained as unfit for the Post, viz; Metal boxes, porce- lain and Chins, fruit, vegetables, bunches
3. The limits of weight allowed ize as
Soldiers and Sailors' Lettera, Privates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non- commissioned Officers, Army Schoolzuar follows ters (not superintending or First Class) or to the United Kingdom via Southampton Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters
But not Warrant Officers, viri, Assistant Engineer, Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter.
Books and Papers-to British Offc #, 5 lbs.; to the Continent, &o, & lbs. Patterns to British Offices, 5lbs. if with
out intringio value; to the Continent, dep, 8.ok
Up to $25............15 conta.
"1
};
50.. ..30 5.Lista of Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom may be consulted at Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.
* Made out on a printed form which is supplied
gratis.
+ Local Orders on Shanghai aro drawn at 2 per
went, premium in all cases.
A fixed dol
lar rate for drawing on the United King dom in force at Shanghai,
Taunton
Thomas Fletcher 2
Twilight
Undaunted
Vale of Doon
For H. M. Ships, &c.
Lets. Pap.
.1 Shanchi
Lets. Fap
1 regd.
Books, etc. without Covera. Amsterdamwer. Army and Navy Gazette. Australasian Trade Rovion. Bahatte..
Bullionist. Cassel's Family Magazine. Chamber's Journal
Christian Week. Colburn's U. S. Magazine. Dagbladet. Courier.
Durant &Co.'s Public Salo. Familien Bogister. Evans Sons & Co.'s Frice Current.
Field. Freja.
Herman Aarons (Cards). Gacetta de Madrid.
Inverness Courier, Iron,
Law Magazine and Review, Liverpool Weekly Mercury." Marine Verordnungs Blatt. Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Overland Mail. North British Agriculturist,
Register der Abbeldungen, Times (Weekly). Weekly Dispatche
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