o. 5116.-NovEMBER 29, 1879.]
3rd. The full title and date of publication FOSTAL RITES.
must be printed at the top of the first page, oined we give the postal rate and the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every in force for transmission of corre subsequent page; and this regulation applies, ndence to all parts of the world, to Tables of Contents and Indices.
4th. A supplement must consist wholly tailed rales affecting the transmisor in great part of matter like that of a | n of packets, parcels, da, will be newspaper, or of advertisements, printed on a sheet or sheets, or a piece or pieces of and annexed, together with a number paper, unstitched; or wholly or in part of
engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra miscellanoous and useful notices.]
tive of articles in the newspaper. The supplement must in every case be published with the newspaper, and must have the ütle and date of publication of the newspaper printed at the top of every page; or, if it consists of engravingą, prints, or lithographs, at the top of every sheet or side.
ongkong Rates of Postage.
(Revised April 4tk, 1879.)
n the following Statements and Tables Rates are given in cents, and are, for stors, per half ounce, for Books and
terne, per too vurices. Newspapers over four ounces in weight charged as double, treble, &c, as the
A packet containing two or more news- papers is not chargeable with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.
The postage must be prepaid-either by an
wrapper.
THE CHINA MAIL.
of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instrumente, samples of metals, samples of ore, samples fo glass bottles, pieces of glass, selde of various kinds, curry combs, copper and stoel en graving plates, and confectionery of all kinds.
by British Packet, for one penny; or via Brindisi by British Packet for three-pence, Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of 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 letiora are allowed.
No
Such articles as eclasors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machi
2. If from a Soldier or Sailor, his glass nery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or
or description must be stated in full on ore, provided that they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford the letter, and the commanding Officer complete protection to the contents of the must sign his name, with name of Regi- mail bags and to the Officers of the Postmont, or Ship, &c., in full. Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined, may be sent as samples, Indigo cannot be sent to any place.
8. If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or
name of Regiment, or Ship, &c., in full,
description must be stated in full, with
French Packet. ·
Under instructions from the London
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PARCELE. The public is reminded that, there is no such thing as Parcel Post to Europe, do. Much trouble and disap- pointment is caused by persistent attempts to send small valuable trifles through the Poat.. Fans, Curios, Articles of Dress Fancy Work, and similar prosents are con tinually being refused, the senders having often spout more in Postage than would No have paid the freight by steamer. refund can be made on such parcels of the value of Stampa obliterated before the nature of the contents was discovered.
PATTERNS,Some difficulty is experienced in obtaining a general understanding of what is a Pattern. It is a bond fide sample of goods which tho sendor has for sale, or of goods which he wishes to order. It is to cousist of the smallest possible quantity
ar and must have no intrinsic value.
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sums of money to or from this Colony and To provide means of remitting smeli
Postmasters and Agents of this Office will in future be allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong. Postage Stamps from foreign residents.
Between Hongkong" and Shanghai, or Hongkong and Yokohaine, however, iu sither direction, Money-Orders must be
To provide the greatest possible facilities Mails for the United Kingdom, de, by compatible with shewing what the goods for posting Correspondenco for Europe, &c., up to the latest moment before the departure of the French Packets, arrange ments have been made for receiving at the and through Australia-iren 11.10 AM to 11.30 A.M. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 conts extra postage.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Unclaimed Correspondence, November 28, 1870.
Lets, Pay.
Aren, E. L. B. 1
Losch, E.
Leta. Pap.
4
Atack, Mypan 1 rogd. MacCarthy, Dr. | 1
}2.
1
E.
Marmont, B. 8
Marshall, Mrs
1 regd. Robert. 1
1
Maurer, Mr
Mathew
Ayoon Azavedo, João
R. de Baring, A. Barker, G. Beakmann, Carl 1 card McDoer, Mrs
McFarlane, Bernard, Eril 3 Bourbon, Chas. 1 card Braithwaite,Capt.. Bratsberg,Oluf C.2 Brono, Capt.
A. B. Curaro, Siy. E. I erd Ng Ah On Carlson, O. Civetta, Giovanni 1 Colby, Mrs Corcoran, J.
Crofton, Mire G. 1 Crofton, Gen. Davis, W 1 Dawo, Wi'iera Descamps, Mons. 1 Doblyreu, G. F. 1 Duhamel, Chan, Easton, James Emery, H. C. Er-Gee-Lee, Ber.L Ettridge, Frank 1 Fartara, G. Fernandes David l Francis, Franels 1 Francisco, Yg,
Master
mabe, but such papers or packets of adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped Post Office late lettore-except those to dom which have hitherto been forwarded between the Ports of China and Japan, the Crettier, Monar. 1.
bern-day be sent at Book Bate. Two wspapers must not be folded together aa , nor mast anything whatever be inserted ept bona fide Supplements, Printed tter may, however, be enclosed, if tho les Cur ble be paid at Book Rate. it may be paid either as Newspapers or bka. Commercial Papore signify such papers though Written by Hand, do not bear character of an actual or personal corre- ndence, such an invoices, deeds, copled sie, te. Any of them in a Book Packet ose it to the higher charges stated bo
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Every newspaper must be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing, wax, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so to admit of easy removal for examination. If this rule be infringed the newspaper is treated as a 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- plements is charged as a letter, unless the enclosure be such as might be seat at the book rate of postage, and the entire packet be anfficiently prepaid as a book packet, in which case li is allowed to pase.
The skader of any Registered Article accompany it with a Return Receipt paying an extra fee of 4 cents,
A newspaper which has any letter, or any The limit of weight for Books and Com- rcial Papers to Foreign Post Officee is communication of the nature of a letter, 8. Patterns for such offices are limited written in it or upon its cover, in charged 8 ounces, and must not exceed these as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter. ensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 25 lbs. in weight, or above two feet in No packet of newspapers may be above length, one foot in width, nor one in depth, .R. means No Registration.
208.
Countries of the Postal Union, The Union may be taken to comprise cope, most foreign possessions in Asis, an, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all America, Mexico, Salvador, Chili, il, Peru, The Argentine Republic, naioa, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, muda, Labuan, with all Danish, uch, Netherlands, Portuguese and nish Colonies. Countries NOT in the Union. The chlaf ntries not in the Union are the Aus- lasian Group.
Postage to Union Countries, Jeneral Rates, by any route;—
cents per oz.
tera,
t Cards,
gistration rapapori,
8 cents each.
8 cents.
2 cents each,
oks and Patterns, 2 cents per 2 oz. mmercial Papers, 6 cents per 4 cz. Exceptional rates, to the United King- and Union Countries served through United Kingdom via Brindisi only:-- ters,
12 cents per 62.
5 cents each.
it Cards, gistration,
wapapers,
8 cents.
4 cents each.
oks and Patterns, 4 cents per 2 oz. umercial Papers, 8 cents per 4 oz. There is no charge on redirected corre
ndence within the Postal Union,
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Aspinwall (N.R.), Bahamas, Guatemala Hayt! (..), New Granada (N.E.}, nama (N.R.), and Venezuela (N.B.):
Via San Via B.Hampton Via Francisco. or Marssilles. Brindisi
12
30 None.
ters, gistration,
Bolivia, Costa kion (x.x.),
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A book-packet may contain any number of separate books or other publications (including printed or lithographed lettera), photographs (when not on glass or in casea 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, priuta, maps, &c., may be either printed, written, en- Taved, lithographed, or plain, or any mixture of these, Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, &c., or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, do, be looss or attached ; as also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, peus or pencila in the case of pocket-booke, &c., and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, &c. must not be sent as a separate packet.
Circulars,i.e., letters which are intend-
ed for transmission its identical terma to Beveral 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 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 printed; nor any enclosure sealed or in any way closed against inspection. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet to charged as a letter.
A similar supplementary Mail is made up for Shanghai 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 is also 18 cents... -.
Miscellaneous Kotices.
Local Delivery.
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.
2. Invitations, &c, can generally be delivered within Victoria 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 Posta! Guide, par, 103.)
B. Boxholders who desire to send Circu- lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, &c., all of the same weight, to addresses in Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China 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 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 Post 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 exceed the following dimen- ions, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, nor weigh more than 6lbs. The postage will be 20 cents per lb., 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.
2. The following cannot be transmitted: Farcels insufficiently packed or protected, or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, &c.) Glass, Liquids, Explosive substas cEB, Matches, Indige, Dyestuffs, lee, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or likely to bo come offensive or injurions in transit.
Post Office, the Mails for the United King: via Marseilles, will henceforth be forwarded in Naples, an It is understood that a galu of twelve hours results from the adoption of this route.
As it would be extremely inconvenient to aside the mail, and no practical advantage would result from doing so, all correspond- ence intended for the United Kingdou by French Packet will be sent via Naples, even
though marked via Marseilles.
An impression appears to prevail that correspondence for the Mediterranean sta tions, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, the Levant, Turkey, &o., can be forwarded only by British Packet. It can be forwarded also by French Packet, and if so forwarded generally arrives a week earlier than if it 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 (oven if the packet be re. gistered), nor is the Post Office responsible for any injury 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 placed in strong covers; and even with this Precaution to fragile article should be sent through the Post. It should be remembered that every packet has to be handled several timea; 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 apparatus, the risk of injury is much increased.
No information can be given respecting letters which pass through a Post Office except to the persous to whom they are addressed; 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 ia would disapprove of bis doing so,
Postmasters are not allowed to return any letter or other packet to the writer or aender, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to such offect be written thereon.
Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money is 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 letters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded.
used.
The Stamps tendered for sale must noi exceed $50 in value, moat be perfectly clean, in good condition, and in strips of a least two, as no separate Stamps will be purchased. 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 case which appears doubtful or suspicious. Be is allowed to charge a Commission of one per cent on all Stamps purchased,
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Moran, B. Mu hy, P. Neto,
Nicholson,
Alox.(senman) Nicolas,SorDiogo2 Nielsen, F. C. O'Brion, Timothy 1 Olive, Monsr. B, 2 Page, John Ed. Pery, Wm. Jas. 2 Peluesi, C. N. 1 Poyed, Morteld 1 Puston & Co., W. 1 Qura-Yee-Ges Quong Ying Woh 1 regd Rosenthal, D. 8, 1 Roussel, Moner. I Kummelhagen 1 1.8.lgado,Sor.Josa 2
fm Yik Sell, G. P. Shera, J. B.
3 regd.
1
2 bls.
1
Shin Lim
I
Sivifant, E.
Sing Get
1 1
1
South, W. Farra. B
1
Soneublick, J. M. 2
Souza, A. M. P. 1
1
Frank, Mr Frannusich, G. I Geyer, Max Gi Goom Gradinger,
Franzisca
Green, Mra M. E. 1
Stone, E.
Suger, H.
Grossberger & Co.2 regil, Suse Long & Co. I regd. Heir, Jobn
Sutton, W. Haworth, J.
Her Beng
Bo. 1, Samael
Thistedt, T.
Thorse, M. M.
Vernon, H.,
1. Tax. c, Miss N. 5.1
Telowits, T.
1
1
Imber", Bali'sła 2 J. K.
1
1
Tong Yiaug
1 regd.
1
1
(Opera Co.) Voen & Co.
1
Weight, J.
1
Wte, Mra F.W.1
1 Lagd
I
15
2
Indemnity for the Love of a Registered Letter. The following Regulations as to the Indemnity to be paid in certain cases ou the loss of Registered correspondence have been made by His Excellency the Governor under Ordinance 10 of 1876, Section XII.
The Post Office is not legally responsible for the safe delivery of Registered corres pondence, but henceforth it will be pre-Lake, W., pared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain cases, provided :—
1. That the sender duly observed all the conditions of Registration require.
2. That the letter was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong envelops.
3. That application was made to the Postmaster General of Hongkong im- mediately the loss was discovered, the envelops being invariably forwarded with such application unless it also is lost.
4. That the Postmaster General is satis.
fied that the loss occurred whilst the corres- pondence was in the custody of the British Postal administration in China, that it was not caused by any fault on the part of the gender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, nor by the disho. esty or negligence of any person not in the employment of the Hongkong Post Office.
5. No compensation can be paid for mere damage to fragile articles such as portraite, watches, handsomely bound books, de, which reach their destination, although in a broken or dotorforsted condition.
Honey Order Regulations. 1.-Money Orders on the United King dom and the Straits Settlements are issuedi at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama. Shangbai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa,
4-Small sums may be remitted between the other Porta by means of Postage Stamps.
3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to
A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not
8. Parcels will as a general rule be for be fastened, whether by means of gum, warded by Private Ship, not by Contract wafer, sealing wax, Postage stamp, or Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of the contents right of selecting the opportunity for trans- mission, and of delaying delivery in case being easily withdrawn for examination; the number of parcels is such as to retard otherwise it is treated as a letter. For the other correspondence. No responsibility frequently with serious injury, not only to residents at the smaller Ports in this way.
ta accepted with regard to any parcol, but the system of Registration will secure the senders against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
greater security of the contents, however, Ecuador it may be tied at the ends with string
Portmasters being authorised to cat, the string in such cases, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet.
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8.
8
wapapers,
4
4
G
phs & Patterns, 6.
6
8
a.), Nicaragua (M.B.): ---
ters,
20
30
34
врарога,
4
6
oks & Patterns, 12
&
8
gistration,
8
None.
ters,
gistration,
#spapers,
12 None. 4*
12
16 None. None,
4
6
oks & Patterns, 6*
G
8
Hawaiian Kingdom :---.
No book-packet may be above 5 lbs. None. In weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 12 inches in depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government offices.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, etc., the transmis sion or delivery of the letters would be V. Indies (except as above), Paraguay, delayed if the whole mail were dealt with without distinction, book-packets may be kept back till the next despatch or delivery,
guay- sters,
wapapers,
bke & Patterns,
gistration,
British & Union'
30
34
4
6
8
4*
8
g
at. Indies only, f Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, tal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascension, Lettere, by Contract Packet 24; by Pri- e Ship 12, Registration, 8; Newspapers, Books and Patterns, 4,
A small extra charge is made on delivery.
CAL AND TOWN POSTAGE.
Vithin any Town or Settle-
Letters.
at, or between Hongkong, ton, and Macao, in either ction
....... 2 etween any other two of following places (through ritish Office) viz.:-Hong 8. Macao, Forts of China Japan, Bangkok, Cochin
na Tonquin, and the Phi ines, by Private Ship..... 4 Between the above by Con-
Mail,.
Registration.
Newspapers.
Bks. & Pitna.
Per 2 oz.
at a
22
22
ny publication fulfilling the conditions after named can pass as a newspaper. he conditions are as follows :--
The publication must consist wholly great part of political or other news, f articles relating thereto, or to other ent topics, with or without advertise
PATTERNS.
They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all artioles 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.
Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries is restricted to bonâ fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise, Goods sent for sale, or in execution of an 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 cover 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 bags of linen or other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened; or, in the case of seeds &o,, in bags entirely closed, provided such closed bags are trans- parent, so se to enable the Officers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the contents.
There must be no writing or printing upon or in any packet except the address of the person for whom it is intended, the ad- dress of the sender, a trade mark or num- ber, and the price of the articles,
4. The public are cautioned not to con- found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Europe, &c., which does not exist,
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indies, and other countries with hot climates, with wax (except such as in specially prepared), is attended with much inconvenience, and 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 publio are therefore recommended, in all Buch cases, to use either wafers or gum, and to advise their correspondents in the conn- tries referred to, to do the same.
Jager & Co.- Jen, John Jobacon, J. J. I Kong Woh Sing 1 regd. Fipes, T. H. 1
Einecr Laurerce, J. Le Josne,
MODSY, R. Leonard, Clarence Leonetti, F. Limo, Mover,!1 (Chinaman) J Lilley, Capt.
Wams, GAP. 4 Wiliams, T.
Wders, Miss G. 1 Won Kam
Chung (Sing+1
Kup shop)
1 regd.Worth ⚫gton, L.
2
Young, Hen J,
1
21st Roys 1 1 Fugiter
Detained for Postage. Rámos,, Annibal - 1 letter 20 cents to pay.
Sor. D. Chile
For Merchant Ships
Tets. Pap.
Agnes Muir Aikshant Albion Alexa Alice
1 Howden
1......
Hydra
1 Iris
Italia, 5.8.
John Nicholson
Lets. Pap
1
Anna Sicbon Anna Sophis Anne
Julea Dulaura
1
Julia A. Browni
1
Kim Yong Tye
Annic Weston Aurortio
1
Kinross
1
Lena Borbon
B. v. Middleburg 1 Bath Bathlor Belloner Belted Will
Lily
1
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Lofa
1
Loter
1
Mad Cap
2
9
1 Middlesex
B
Monte Rosa
1 Nettie Merryman 2
1
1 regd.
1
10
1
14
8
Benjamin Ayman1-- Ballochmyll Bun Chao
Callao Candace
Charity
Chotos Clan Alpine Clam
luru Coldingham
Grosshill
Dora Ann
Edith
An application for an order* is filled up and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unscaled envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest issuing office. The application Colwyn must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) in cheque, postage stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a little margin should be left for variations of exchange. The Postmaster issues the order, sends it on in the envelope, and returns the change, if any, by first oppor tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it were to be registered, as it always should Care should be taken to send those applications in time, as the Money Order Offices close some hours before the depar-
tures of the mails.
4-No order must exceed £10, or in- clude aay fraction of a penny. 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
Orders on the United Kingdom. Up to £2... 18 genta.
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£5... £7...
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13
13
54
£10.......... 72,
Local Money Orders (including Straits, Settlements).
Up to $25............15 cents.
50............30-
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Books, etc, without Covers. Allgenianes Journal. - Caffaro. Contemporary Review, Continent. Ctpokers (Russian),
Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon.
The registration of a packet makos its The Philippine Islands being now adult transmission much more.secure, inasmuch ted into the General Postal Union, it folas, under ordinary circumstances, & regis. lows that all paid correspondence received tered packet can be traced through its whole from Manila in the mails will be delivered conree; and thus the loss of a registered be. free by this Ofice, and that all paid cor packet is a very rare occurrence. Neverthe respondence sent to Manila in the mails
less large sums of money or other articles should be delivered free there.
of great value should not be sent through Article IX of the Postal Treaty of Berne the post, even if the packet be registered; as provides that "Neither the senders nor the the machinery of the Department is not addressees of letters and other postal arranged with a view to such transmission. packets shall be called upon to pay, either By law, the Post Office is not responsible in the Country of Origin, or in that of for the safe delivery of registered packets; Destination, any tax or duty other than" though any officer who may neglect his the recognised rates levied (in the case of duty on this point will be called to strict paid correspondence) by the despatching account. Sent in unregistered letters, valu- Office. It is hoped that any extra charge, able articles are exposed to risk, and offer a or apparently extra charge, will at once be temptation which ought not to be created; brought to the amice of the proper and the Department cannot in any way authorities, in either Colony.
The above does not apply in any to loose undertake the safe conveyance of such packets. All inland or colonial letters, 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 or and probably the Manila Office will adopt jewellery, even though they be ported the same course.
without registration, are treated as register- ed, and charged on delivery with a double
5. Lists of Money Order Offices in the registration fee of eightpence in addition to the ordinary postage; and any such lettere Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.
United Kingdom may be consulted at which cannot be registered in time to be 6.-Names must be given in full (except Ekkehard. forwarded by the Mail for which they are when there is more than one Christian English Independent. posted are detained for the next despatch.name) but the name of the Payee need not Epocs Even if the letter do not contain any article be given if the order be crossed (as cheques Family Herald. of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very
are crossed). It can then be paid only Fanfulla. important, be registered..
through a Bank, and may afterwards be Fliegende Blatter. specially crossed to any Bank.
Geornals Per Tutti. 7.-No order can be paid till the Payee Hamburglacher Correspondent. have signed it in the proper place. An Hezamedon. order can be transferred to another office Highlander. on payment of an additional commission.
Illustrated London News. In case of loss of an order, necessity for Jeane Republique. stopping payment, or the like; application Journal des Consulate. should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructions,
8.-If the order be not presented within London & China Express. six months an additional commission will now Times. be charged; if not within twelve months, Mail. order is once paid no further claim can be National Zeitung, the money will be forfeited. When the Middelfort Avis,
entertained. M
9.No order can be paid until the advice Provincia di Prescia.
Plane (from C. Heckmann) Berlin. relative to it has been received.
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, de, had been sent loose.
Any Foreign stamps on loose corre "pondence are obliterated in this Office,
Indian Correspondence. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packets.
The Pro-payment of correspondenes for the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden is compulsory by whatever opportunity it is forwarded,
Registration to Bangkok.. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Slam has been good enough to make arrangements by means of which correspon dence can be Registered to Bangkok, at the usual charge of 8 centa,
The rule which forbids the transmission through the Post of any article likely to
Soldiers and Sailors' Letters. Injure the contents of the Mail Bags or Boxes, or the person of any Officer of the Post Office is, of course, applicable to the commisioned Officers, Army Schoolmas Privates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non Pattern Post; and a packet containing any tera (not superintending or First Class) or thing of the kind will be stopped, and not Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters Bent to its destination. Articles such as the following have been occasionally posted to the United Kingdom via Southampton
ad vlt must be published in numbers at
vals of not more than 81 days, and as Patterns, and have been detained as
t be printed on a sheet or sheets un- I unfit for the Post, visi Metal boxes, pores. ted,
İşin and Chins, fruit, vegetables, bunches
But not Warrant Offers, vix, Asulitant Engineer, Gunner, Bontrwaic, or Carpenter,
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 registered or unregistered, can be received for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is liable to Customs anties
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sent be so, amall as to make the sample of no value.
follows:-
3. The limits of weight allowed are as
Books and Papers-to British Office, 5 lbs. to the Continent, o., 4 lbs. Pattern to British Offleas, blba if withs out intrivela valus; to the Continent, dro, 8 on
***Made out on a printed form which is supplied
gratie.
+ Local Orders on Shanghat are drawn at 8 per
cent. premium in all cases. A fixed dol lar rate for drawing on the United King- dom is in force at Shanghai
Dicuraçaoeche Courrant.
Le Levantin.
Panch Quiver Record,
Russian Fashion Paper. Exmple of Cotton, Versameling.
Teekly Bulletin.
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