No. 5156. JANUARY 17, 1880.]
POSTAL BATES. [Subjoined we give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corro spondence to all parts of the world. Detailed rules affecting the transmis sion of packets, pareula, &c., will be found annexed, together with a number of miscellaneous and useful noticos.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
Mails for the United Kingdom, &c. by
French Packet,
of flowers, cuttings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces of machinery, sharp pointed instruments, samples of
Under Instructions from the London metale, samples of ore, suples la glass Post Office, the Mails for the United King bottles, pieces of glans, acids of various dom which have hitherto been forwarded kinda, curry combs, copper, and stool in-vis Marseilles, will Lonceforth be forwarded graving plates, and confectionery of all vici Naples, as it is understood that a gain kinds.
of twelve hours results from the adoption of this route.
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 pago; and this regulation applies to Tables of Contents and Indices.
4th. A supplement must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that of a nowspaper, or of advertisements, printed
Such articles as sclegors, knives, razors, on a shout or sheets, or a piece or pieces of forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machi- paper, unstitched; or wholly or in part of nery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra- are, provided that they be packed and tive of articles in the newspaper. The guarded in eq secure a manne iphone twat in every camous pure had complete protection to the contents of the with newspaper, and have the to the Officers of the Post Hongkong Rates of Postage 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. (Revised April 4th, 1879.) consists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, Indigo cannot be sent to any place.
at the top of every sheet or side.
In the following Statements and Tables the Ratos are given iu cents, and are, for Lettora, per half ounce, for Books and
·Patterns, per two ounces.
Newspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, &c., as tho enso may be, but such papers or packets or papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as
A packet containing two or more powa- papers is not ebargeable with whigher rate of postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight.
The postage must be prepaid either by an adhesive stamp, or by the use of a stamped wrapper.
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as to afford
Miscellaneous Notices.
Local Delivery.
1. All correspondenco postod before 5 P. on any week day for addresses in Victoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, nolces the
i
As it would be extremely Inconvenient to divide the mail, and no practical advantage would result from doing so, all correspond once intended for the United Kingdon by French Packet will be sent via Naplus, even though marked via Marsellles.
To provide means of remitting small sums of money to or from this Colony and between the Ports of China and Japan, the Postmasters and Aganta of this Office will in future be allowed (but not required) to puroliane Hongkong Postage Stamps from foreign residents. Hongkong and Yosobama, however, in Betwoon Hongkong and Shanghal, or either direction, Money-Orders must be
uged.
The Stamps tonderad for sale must not
exceed $50 in value, must be perfectly. least, in goud condition, and in strips of b two, as no separato Stamps will be An impression appears to prevail that purchased. They must be presented per correspondence for the Mediterranean sta-sonally or accompanied by a nuto. tions, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, the Levant, The Postmaster or-Agent may postpone Turkey, &c., can be forwarded only by purchasing if his public funds in hand are British Packet. It can be forwarded also not suflicient, and he will refuse to purchase by French Packet, and if so forwarded any case which appears doubtful or Ho is allowed to charge a gonerally arrives a week earlier than if it suspicious.
Commission of one per cent on all Stamps had been detained for the British Mail.
purchased...
Indemnity for the Low of a Registered Letter
The following Regulations as to the
the loss of Registered correspondence haya been made by His Excellency the Governor under Ordinance 10 of 1876, Section Xii.
The Post Olice is not legally responsible for the safe delivery of Registered corres- pondence, but henceforth it will be pre- pared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, în certain cases, provided -
1. That the sonder duly observed all the conditions of Registration require.
one, nor must anything whatever be inserted without a cover (in which case it must not delivery should be retarded by the Contract arise from tho, non-delivery, mle-sending. Indemnity to be paid in certain cases on
except bona fide Supplements Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate, Prices Cur- rent may be paid either as Nowapapors or Booka,
.
Every newspaper must be posted either be fastened, whether by tacaps of gum, wafer, uealing waz, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of easy removal for examiustion. If this rule be infringed the newspaper in treated as a lotior.
Every newspaper must be so folded, as to admit of the title being readily in- spected.
Malla.
2. Invitations, de, can generally be delivered within Victoria at the private houses of tho addressees rather than at places of business, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the sender, otherwise all correspondence is tavariably delivered at the nearest place of business. (See Postal Guide, par. 103,)
Commercial Papers signify sach papers an, though Written by Hand, do not bear the charactor of an actual or personal corre spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied
A newspaper or packet of newspapers music, de. Any of them in a Book Packet which contains any enclosure except sup- expose it to the higher charges stated be-plements is charged as a letter, unless thes, all of the same weight, to addresses In enclosure be such as might be sont at the book rate of postage, and the entire packet be sufficiently propaid me a book packet, in which caso it is allowed to pass.
low.
The sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 4 cents.
Tho limit of weight for Books and Com- mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is
#
A newspaper which has any letter, or any communication of the nature of a letter,
B. Boahoidors who desire to send Cireu lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China, and Japan, may deliver them to the Post Office unstamped, the stage being then charged to the sender a accoutit. Exch batch must consist of at least ten.
The Post Oflice is not, by law, responsible for any loss or inconvenience which may
or mile-dollvery of any letter, book, or other postal packet (uven if the packet be re- gistered), nor is the Post Qlice 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 no fragile article should be sent through the Post. It should be remembered that overy packet has to be handled several times; that it is exposed to considerable pressure and friction in the mail bag; and that, whenever the bag has in the course of its trausmission to be transferred by moana of the railway apparatus, the risk of injury is much increased.
2. That the lottor was securely enclosin In a reasonably strong envelope,
3. That application was made to the Postmaster General of Hongkong im mediately the loss was discovered, the envelope being invariably forwarded with
4 lba. Patterns for such offices are limited written in it or upou its covor, la cbargco velopes containing Patterns may be wholly letters which pasa through a Post Office Such application' unless it also is lost,
to 8 ounces, and must not exc.ed thees dimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 2 inobos.
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, Brasil, Peru, The Argentine Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, Labuan, with all Daniel, French, Netherlandi, Portuguese 13d Spanish Colonies.
Countries NOT in the Union. →The ablef countries not in the Union are the Aus. tralasian troup.
Postage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any route
Letters,
Post Cards,
Registration, Newspapera,
8 conts par oz.
B cents each.
8 cents.
2 cunts each.
Books and Patterns, 2 cents per 2 oz. Commercial Papers, 6 cents per 4 oz.
Exceptional rates, to the United King- dom and Union Countries served through
the United Kingdom via Brindisi only:— Lotters,
12 coota per oz
-5 cents each:
8 cents.
4 conta each.
Post Cards, Registration, Newspapers, Books and Patterns, 4 cents per 2 oz. Commercial Papors, 8 conta por É oz.
There is no charge on redirected gorze- spondence within the Postal Union.
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Aspinwall (NR), Bahamas, Guatemala (N.), Hayt (N.), Now Granada (N.B ), Panama (N.B.)-
Via San Via Shampion Via Francisco, ar Murovilles. Brindisi
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as an unpaid or insufficiently paid lettor.
No packet of newspapers may be above 5 lbs. f weight, nor above two feet in length, one foot in width, nor one in depth.
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 cases containing glose 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, priata, maps, o., 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, de, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whother Buch binding, dro. be loose or attached; sв also rollers in the case of prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, peus or pencils in the case of pocket-books, &c., and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, rollera, &c. must not be sent as a separate packet.
Circulars,.., letters which are intend- ad for transmission in identical terms to several persone, 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 way not contain any letter, or communication of the nature of a letter (whether separate or otherwise), unless it be a circular-letter or be wholly priated nor any enclosure sealed. or In any way closed against inspection. If this rule be infringed, the entire packet is charged as a letter.
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, postage stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at both ends, so as to admit of the contenta being easily withdrawn for examination; Books & Patterns, 6
otherwise it is treated as a letter. For the Bolivia, Costa Rica (x.x.), Ecuador greater security of the contents, however,
Lattara, Registration, Newspapers,
19
31
Nono.
8
8
4
4
G
6
8
(N.R.), Nicaragua (K.R.):-.
Lotters,
29
3)
34
Newspapers,
4
4
Books & Pattern", 12
&
Registration,
$
None.
8 None.
Hawaiian Kingdom-
Letters,
12
12
16
Registration,
Newspapers,
None.
4*
Νοτιθ.
•
6
8
Books & Patterns, 5*
it may be tied at the ends with string Postmasters botng authorised to cut the string in such cases, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet.
No book-packet may be above 5 lbe 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 None. Government offices.
When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, etc., the transmis alon or delivery of the lotters would be W, Indies (except as above), Paraguay, alon, or if the whole mall were dealt with without distinction, book-packets may be kept back till the next despatch or delivory.
Uruguay ;-
Lettera,
30
34
Newspapers,
4
Ра
Books & Patterna,
#
&
Registration,
to British & Union)
8
West Indies only,
8
PATTERNS.
They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmanis, Fiji, its own, apart from its mereuse as a pattern and indeed whatever may have a value of Natal, Cape, St. Helena, Ascension.
and the quantity of any material sent Letters, by Contract Packet 34 by Pri-ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great rate Ship 12, Registration, 8; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterna, 4.
• A small extra charge is made on delivery.
LOCAL AND TOWN POSTAGE
Within any Town or Settle- ment, or between Hongkong,! Canton, and Macao, in either direction,.....
Letters.
Registration.
Newspapers.
Bas. & Pttne.
Fer 2 oz.
2 8:2
2
Between any other two of the following places (through a British Office) viz-Hong- kong, Macao, Ports of Oblas and Japan, Bangkok, Ooohinj Chios, Tonquin, and the Phi- lippines, by Private Ship 4 8 22
Between the above by Con- tract Mail.....
883 2
Any publication fulfilling the conditions hereafter named can pass as a newspaper,
or
The conditions are as follows :→→→
that it can fairly be considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.
Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries la restricted to boná 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.
4. Boxholders inay also sand Patterns to the same places in the same way, En- 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 Circulara way be inserted in such Pattern Packets.
Local Parcel Post,
No information can be given respecting except to the persons to whom they are addressed; and in no other way la oficial 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 la would disapprove of his doing so.
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Poat Postural lere are not allowed to return any between any of the British Fost i ffices in letter or other packet to the writer or sender, China or Japan, as well as to Macao, Puk- or to any one else, or to delay forwarding boi, Singaporo, Penang, and Malacca, it to its destination according to the address, They must not exceed the following dimeu-even though a request to auch effect be
ions, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, written thereon, nor wei h more than 5lbs. The postage will be 20 cents per lb., which will include Registration. The parcels may be wholly closed if they bear this special endorse maut, 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, Liquids, Explosive substa cea, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, Ice, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever in dangerous to the Mails, or likely to be- come offensive injurious in transit. warded by Irivate Ship, not by Contract Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the right of selecting the opportunity for trans- mission, and of delaying delivery in case the number of parcals is such as to retard otbor correspondence. No responsibility is accopted with regard to any parcol, but the system of Registration will secure the andere against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
3. Parcela will as a general rule be for-
The public are cautioned not to cou- found these facilities with a Parcel Pust to Europe, &e., which does not exist,
Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether sa change or otherwise, no qu sion as to its right so unt, guodueas, 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 day be not thereby impeded.
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from the East and West Indies, and other countries with hot climates, with wax
(except such as is specially prepared), la 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 auc cases, to use either wafers or gum, and to advise their correspondents in the coun- tries referred to, to do the same.
The registration of a packet makes it transmission much more secure, inasmuch as, under ordinary circumstances, regis tered packet can be traced through its whole course; and thus the loss of a registered packet in a very rare occurrence. Neverthe
Mails exchanged with Manila and Saigon. ted into the General Postal Union, it fol-less large sums of money or other articles
The Philippine Islands being now admit- lows that all paid correspondence received of great value should not be sent through from Manila in the mails will be delivered the post, even if the packet be registered; as free by this Office, and that all paid cor- the machinery of the Department is not. respondence sent to Manila in the mails arranged with a view to such transmission. should be delivered free there.
By law, the Post Office is not responsible for the safe delivery of registered packeta; though any officer who may neglect his duty on this point will be called to strict account. Sent in unregistered letters, valu ablu articles are exposed to risk, and offer a temptation which ought not to be created; and the Department cannot in any way undertake the safe conveyance of such packets.
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 ratua levied (in the case of paid correspondenc) by the despatching Office. It fe hoped that any extra charge, or apparently extra charge, will at once be brought to the notice of the proper authorities, in either Colony.
The above does not apply in any way to loose latters sent outside the mails. These will always be charged on arrival in Bong kong 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, dc., had been sent loose,
Any Foreign stamps on loose- . COITO- spondence are obliterated in this Office.
Indian Correspondence. Unpaid Letters are not received for the Indian Mail Packsta
The Pre-payment of correspondence for the Straits, India, Ceylon, and Aden is compulsory by whatever opportunity it is
forwarded.
Registration to Bangkok.
Ber Britannic Majesty's Consul General
All insand or colonial letters, therefore, which contain coin, and all inland letters which contain watches or jewellery, even though they be posted without registration, are treated as register- ed, and charged on 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 forwarded by the Mall for which they are posted are detained for the next despatch. Even if the latter do not contain any article of intrinsic value, it should, if it be very Important, be registered.
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 oba rved.
1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be registered or u registered, can be received for Postageif it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is liable to. Customs duties,
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending
3. The limits of weight allowed are as follona -
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 Chios, that it was not caused by any fault on the part of the sender, by destruction by fire, or abipwreck, nor by the disho vary or negligence of any person not in the employment of the
longkong Post Oflice,
6 No compensation can bo paid for mere damage to fragile aricles such as portraits, watches, handsomely bound booka, e, which reach their destination, although iu a broken or deteriorated a ndition.
POST OFFICE NOTICE,
Unclaimed Dorrespondence, January 10, 1880.
Lets. Pap.
Lets. Fay,
Atock, Mypan 1 rogd.Marshall, Mra }i Ayoon
1 regd, Robert 1 regd.McDues, Mra Baring, A. Beaufre, Arthur 1 card McFarlano, Wm. I Bokmann, Carl 1 card Miller, David
Moreno, Capt. 8 60
1
1
2
Bridges.f: Browne, Oh
Capt. B. Bryant, Mr Cadwallder, W.G.I Cararo, Sig. 1. Ioard Cling Vang Hup 1 Conts, George à
Houry 1 Grott
fton, Georgs 1 Dahlgren, Davis, G.
G. F. 1
2
1
Dawe 0.
Wor. Donglasa, Dihamol, Chas. 1 Easton, James Emery, H. C. Er-Geo-Lee, Rev.1 Biridge, Frank 1 Firmin, Mies A. 1 Fousing, Lonts 1 Fraucis, Francis 1 Francisco. Yg. Fuchs, Ed. Garrett Waller 1 Grahan, Mrs.
I. E. Green, Mrs M. E. 1 Hair, John Hamond, Chas.A.i Hardcastle, E. L. 2 Haworth, J. Houndson, John 1 Horn, Samuel
Imberti, Buttista 7°K
Jackson, Oscur Jager & Co. Jenkins, John Johnson, J. J. Kaiser, Mrs
alta, G. W.
Linnto, Monar. Leonetti, F.
(Chinaman)
Lie Tay Ho
Lilly, Capt.
1
C. C.
1
"Nei, Mathow · 1
1
Ng Ah On Nicholson,
Alex.(conman) Nicolas, SorDiego 2 Nielson, F. C.
Nool, F. A.
1 1
P. C.
Pago,
Jebu Ed. 2
Parlance, James 1
Portholier, Mousr.
1.
2 Quong Yoo
1
1 Reiningin, P. P.
1
Rodrigues, J. P. 1
5 Rodrigues Sabinn 1 1pol.
1
John. 1 Rottings, Rosenthal, Dr. B. 1 Roussel, Mouer. 1 Salgado, Sor.Jose 2 Saunders, T. Schweinsborg, 1
G. A. S. Sell, G. P. Sherwood,
0.8.
1
1
Shin Lim Sillifant, E. Silva, J. P. N. 1
Smith, W. Farra å
Sonza, A. M. P. 1
Spence, DonaldĮ
1
W.
Stone, E.
1
Stout, Dr.
Sution, W.
Tanso, Miss N. 8.1 Wm. Karr 1
1
Thistedt, T.
1
Venei, Fred,
2 bks.
1
Voen & Co.
1
1 -
Walker, Thos.
1
1 White, Mrs F.W.5
1.regd. Winters, Miss G. 1.
1
Won Kam
Chung {Sáng - 1
1 rogd, Kup shop)
$
Lilly, Miss Fannyl Lupoak, Joseph 1 Mackie, 3. Murmelstein, J. 1
Marmont, B. 2
Wor Shang
1 Yow Hing Cheong1 regd.
Young, Henry,
1
1
21st Royal
Fusilier
Xavier Feliz
Simão
Detained for Postage. Bámos,, Amilal
Sor. D. Chile
Money Order Regulations. 1.-Money Orders are exchanged with the United Kingdom, New South Wales, New Zealand, Queenalaud, South Australia and Port Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Western Australia, and (except at Shang- bai) with the Japanese Empire. Hongkong also issues orders on Shanghat, and vice Afghan, 8.8.
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2.mall suma may be romitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Stamps, subject to a charge of one per
cont. for cashing them.
Aiksirant
I regd.
1
.1
1 letter 20 cents to pay.
For Merchant Ships
Lots. Pap.
2
Lote. Pap Glandinorwig 8
4
Golwan Golwyn
1
1
1
Hattie E. Tapley 5
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1
Allon, 8.8.
1
America
Iris
1
Albion Alosa Alexander.
Newton Alco
m
Anna Sophia Ansio Aunic WestoY
residents at the smaller Ports in this way. 3.Many Money Orders are supplied to
and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, An application for au order is filled up, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at Augusto Reimers 2 the nearest issuing office. The application
must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) in cheque, postage stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Hittle margin should be left for variations of exchange. The Postmaster issues the order, senda it on in the envelope, and returns the change, if any, by first oppor. ware to be registered, as it always should tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it
applications in time, as the Money Order Care should be taken to send these Offices close some hours before the depar tures of the maila..
be.
H.v. Middleburg 1 Belloner
Bolted Will Benjamin Aymail Ballochmyll Вна Сали Callao Candace
Hecla
Henry A. Paul
Hell
Italia, 8.8. Jules Dufauro
Katie Flickergart Kim Yong Tyo 1 Kinross
1 Lancashiro Witch 8 2 Lena Borbon 2 Lily
1
1 Tota
Loter
1
Lucin
6
1
Mad Cap
Mobet
1
Medora
1
Monto Ross
8 Norman
Charity Chob Sable
ly Chelmsford
Clan Alpine, a.s. 14 Choloc Clara Claverhouso, 8.8. 2 Clarn Colwyn
Consolation, 8.8, 1 Cores Davias
4. No order mnat exceed £10, or $50, or include any fraction of a penny, nor will more than two auch orders be issued to the same person, in favour of the same payes, by the same mail Orders will be drawn Diaspore at the current rate of the day? 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 cents. £............ 36 $............ 54 £10.......... 72
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Dora Anu Drumolog
Earl of Zelland Ebenezer
Nettie Morryman 2
N. Boynton Proper
I regd. "
1 regd.
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Pegasus, 8.8. F'on dragon Peru
1
1
Potrel, 8.8.
1
Prima Donna
1
9 *
1
Prosperity
Rifleman
Rover of the Seas 9 Sir Lancelot Staffordshire
Star of China 2 ↓
1 Staat
Stonewall Jackson
Sunbeam, 8.8.
Tung Ting, 8.8. 1
Undaunted
Edith
1 1rg. 4
Edward Barrow 9
20
Electra Ella Beatrice 1
11
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Endymion
1
Forntower, 8.8.
1
2
Fiery Cross
Vanguard
Frolich
1
Ventriloquist
1
Florence Night-
W. A. Holoomo
1
ingale
Wero
1
Wing-Soey-Shing?
1
2
1
Local and Intercolonial Orders. Up to $25 or £5......25 centa. $50 or £10....50 5.-Lists of Mosey Order Offices in the Cnited Kingdom may be consulted at Bongkong an‡ Shanghai.
when there is more than one Christlas 6. Names must be given in full (except name) but the name of the Payes need not be given if the order be crossed (as obeques are crowned). It can then be paid only through a Bank, and may afterwards be specially crossed to any Bauk."
An
has sigued it in the proper place.
7. No order can be paid till the Payee order can be transferred to another office on payment of an additional commission In case of loss of an order, necessity for stopping payment, or the like, application should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructions.
G. C. Fruland Gauntlet Glamorganshira 4
Winlow Woollabra
For Man-of-War, &c.
Leta. Pap.
Albatross Growler
84 Shannon
V. Emanuel
Let, Fig
1
Books, etc. without Govers. Biriningham Weekly Post. British Massenger. Christian.
Continent.
8.-If the order be not presented within Decuraçaosche Courrant. six months an additional commission will Deutsche Randschan.
order in once paid no further claim can be any
entertained.
Herald
Fliegende Blatter.
9. No order can be paid until the advice Gazzetta del Popolo &c. relative to it has been received.
Geornale Per Tutti Glasgow Berald.
Patterns or samples, when practicable, for Siam has been good enough to make of Patterns of dati-ble articles, unless the be charged; if not within twelve months, Dülberg F. W. C. (Cards). must be sent in covers open at the onde arrangements by means of which correspon- / quantity sent be so small as to make the the money will be forfeited. When the English Independent. and in such a manner as to be easy of usual charge of 8 cents.
dence can be Registered to Bangkok, at the sample of no value. examination. Samples of seeds, drugs, and such 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 do, 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.
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.
Soldiers and Sailors' Letters. Privates in H. M. Army or Navy, Non- commissioned Officers,* Army Schoolmas- tore (not superintending or First Class) or Schoolmistresses may send half-ounce letters to the United Kingdom via Southampton by British Facket for one penny; or via Brindisi by British Packet for three-peace, Hongkong stamps will prepay this class of correspondence exactly the same as imperial
Stampa.
Books and Papers-to British Office, 5 lbs; to the Continent, &c., 4 lbs. Patterns to British Offices. 5 lbs. if with. out intrinsic value; to the Continent, &c., 8 oz.
there is no such thing as Parcel Post PARCELS-The public is reminded that, to Europe, &c. Much trouble and disap pointment is caused by persistent attempts
to send amall valuable trifles through the
Post. Fana, Curios, Articles of Dress Soldiers' and Sailors' lettera are, however, Fancy Work, and similar presents are con charged as ordinary letters if they do not tinually being refused, the senders having conform to the following regulations:-
often spent more in Postage than would 1. Not to exceed half an ounce. No have paid the freight by steamer. The rule which forbids the transmission double letters are allowed. through the Post of any article likely to 2. If from a Soldier or Sallor, his class value of Stamps obliterated before the refund can be made on such parcels of the Injure the contents of the Mail Bags or or description must be stated in full on
* Made out on a printed form which is supplied Hamburgischer Correspondent.
gratis.
Hoboe.
Illustrated London Newa,
+ Local Orders on Shanghai are drawn at 2 per
cent, preminu in all cases. A fixed del-Jersey Weekly Press. lar rate for drawing on the United King- dom is in force at Shanghai,
HONG LISTS,
Circular, large shent,
AMENDED HONG LIST in English and Chinese, con- Ist. The publication must consist wholly Bozee, or the person of any Officer of the the letter, and the commanding Office nature of the contents was discovered.
Post Office is, of course, applicable to the must sign his name, with name of Regi in obtaining a general understanding of and Mercantile Houses in th taining the Names of all the most PATTERNS-Some difficulty is experienced important Companies, Institutions Pattern Post; and a packet containing any ment, or Ship, do, in full.
of goods which the sender has for sale, or 8. 11 to a Soldier or Sailor, his class or what is a Pattern. It is a bond fide saraple Colony.
in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other ourrent toples, with or without advertise.
ments.
thing of the kind will be stopped, and not
sent to its destination. Articles such as description mast be stated in full, with and. It must be published in numbers at the following have been occasionally posted name of Regiment, or Ship, &c., in full. Intervals of not more than 31 days, and
as Patterns, and have been detained as must be printed on a sheet or sheets un-unfit for the Post, vir: Metal boxes, porce- #kitabed.
*But not Warrant Officers, viz., Assistant lain and Chins, fruit, vegetables, dunches Engineer, Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter,
goods which he wishes to order. It is Price, 28 cents sach; or $20 to countet of the smallest possible quantity
per dosen. compatible with shewing what the goods are, and must have no intrinaio valua
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At the "Obina Mall Offca,
Journal de St. Petersbourg, Journal des Consplata
Langelands Avis,
Le Levantin.
Lennox Herald. London & China Express. Lucknow Times.
Mail.
Middelfort Aviz. Moniteur des Intérots Maléreels,
National Zeitung
Plans (from C. Heckmann) Berlin. Pooley's Weighing Apparatus Tariff. Proceedings of U. S. Naval Institutes. Provincia di Prescia.
Panch. Quiver,
Saturday Review, &a. Times,
Unterhaltungs Blatt,
Warehousemen & Despéra.
Weekly Bulletin.
Weekly Irish Time
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