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Intimations.

THE CIHNA REVIEW,

Visitors Column.

We have instituted as an experiment VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust THE widely-usprosed regret at the will prove successful, and be found use

continuance of Notes & Queries on China and Japan, has induced the publish ful. To it will be relegated from time similar in object and style, but alightly tables and other intelligence as is cons ors of this journal to issue a publication to time such items of information, lists, modified in certain details sidered likely to prove valuable to per- CHINA REVIEW, or Notes and sobe passing through the City, and Queries on the Far East, is issued at in in connection with we have opened tervals of two months, each number con taining about 60 octavo. pages, cecasionallya SaLzor HOTEL AND BUSINESS illustrated with lithographs, photographia, DIRECTORY, applications for enrolment donard, and to give perqa pay, thed into which we are now ready to receive,

and the circulation

justify,

Bach

List of Public Buildings. Government House, North of Public

Gardens. City Hall, Library (8,000 volumes) and

Museum, Free.

Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque

retreat and of great interest..

Hongkong Rates of Postage.

(Hevised March 1, 1880.)

two ounces.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Local Parcel Post

bat

smitted

3. The following cannot be area, insuficiently packed or protested, or liable to be crushed (as do.) Glass, Liquids, Explosive substances, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, lo, Meat

Geme,

tables, r

whatever Fruit, to this

or likely to be

No. 6263-MAX 24, 1880.

Merchant Vessels in Hongkong. Harbour.

of late Arrivals and Departures

To facilitate suding the position of soy yoke

Green Island Vessels near the Hongkong shore

Shipping or midway between sach shore are war

Section

1. Small Parcels may be sent by Pont between any of the Post Uffices in Chios. for Japally as well as to Macan, Pak In the following Statements and Tables boi, Singapore, Perang, and Malaoca. the Rates are given in dents, and are, for They must not exoged the following inter- Lestars, per half mice, for Books and site, 2 feet long, 1 fout brond, I foot deep, nor weih mero than 5lbs. The postage are charged sa double, treble, e, as the Registration. The parcels may be wholly Patterna, per

Now papers over four oLDer in weight will be 20joonts per lb., which will include case may be, but such papers or packets or closed if they bear this special endoèse- Newspapers must not be folded together as any parrel may he papers may be sent at look at my red may

CONTAINING Kction of one, nor minet anything chatever be inserted the Postmaster General oxcept boxa do Supplements. Printed abiertowy, Lowever, he fancloud, if the paid at Book Bato. Prices Car- rent may be paid either as Newspaporn or

such Commercial Papors signify , though Written by Hand, do not bear in the character of an actual or personal corre come offensive or injurious in transit.

8. Parcels will as a general rule be for- spondenes, such as invoices, deeds, copied.

Contract music, dra. The charge on them is the same warded by Private Ship, not by is for books, but, whatever the weight of Mail Park. The Post Office reserves the a packet containing any partially written right of selecting th opportunity for trans- the number of parcela is such as to retard The sendar · of any Registered Article other currapordence. No responsibility may accompany it with a Botura Receipt is accepted with regard to any parcel, but the system of Registration will secure the on paying an extra feu of bonits.

The limit of weight for Books and Com-sendurs against any but a very remote pro- mrcial Papers to Foruige Post Offices in bability of loes.

4. The public are cautioned not to dot found these facilities with a Parcel Post to Bellona. Europe, &c, which does not exist..

Books

PaperEngerous to t

V

Literature History, Religion, toy & The Clock Tower, Queen's Road Cen-paper, it will not be charged less than 5 mission, and of delaying dolivery in case

Natural

abcription is fixed at $6.50 postage The paid, per annum, payable by non-residents in Bangkong half-yearly in adeanne.

The publication includes papers original and selected upon the Arts and Solences, Ethnology, Folklore, Geography, Bistory, Mythology, Manners and Cué- of China, Japsu, Mongolia,

the Tibet, Eastern Archipelago and the War East generally. A more detailed list of subjects upon which contributions are especially invited is Lacorporated Original contributions in Chineso, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Por tuguese are admissible, Endeavoure are made to present a resumé in each number of the contents of the most recent works bearing on Chinese matters. Great attention is also paid to the Review department.

with each number,

Notes and Replies are classified toge. as "Notes" (hoad references being ther given, when furnished, to previous Notos or Queries), as are also those queries which though asking for information, furnish now or anpublished details concerning the mat ter in hand. It is desirable to make the Quarles proper a brief and as much to the point as possiblə.

The China Berior for July and August, 1875, is at band.

It says that forty-two essays were rent in to compete for the best paper on the advantages of Christianity for the development of a Stato. All our learn- ed societies should subscribe to this scholarly

and enterprising Reviere It is a sixty

pages certaining

Lars sta

lecture on alone worth the

arom China R

tral, in a line with Pedder's Wharf. General Post Office, Hongkong Club, German Club, Supreme Court, &c., within a stone's throw.. Lusitano Club and Library, Shelley St. Government Offices, the Secretariat, &c.,

near the Public Gardens.. St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), above

the Parade Ground. Roman Catholic Cathedral, Wellington

Street.

Union Church, Elgin Street. St. Peter's Seamen's Church, West Point. St. Joseph's (H.C.) Church, Garden

Road, near Kennedy Rond. Temperance Hall, specially adapted for sen-faring men, Queen's Road East, Sailors' Home, West Point.

E. B. A und China Telegraph Co., and the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Marine House, Queen's Road. Masonic Hall, Zetland Street. Victoria Recreation Club-Bath-house and Boat-house, &c., Praya, beyond the Cricket Ground, beside the City Hali.

Hotels.

repertory of what woho The Barracks and Naval and Military

About

China The

Store Departments lie to the east Poetry in this volume is the Review, Ad-

word, and cover a large area. Hongkong-Northern Christian Advocate (0.8.)

Trutner's Oriental Record contains the fol. of ibb China Kavies This lowing notice In the title of a punched as from Hong": the first nombor of which has lately. kang, It has been sat on foot an in

continuation of somo respects

Note and Queries of China and Japan, the

the extinction

by

much

agb

Road.

conta

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to

inches,

N.R. mcava No Bogistration,

"1. From Green Taland to the Gas Works;

2 From Gas Works to the Novelty Iton: Works.

borage in divided to eight fepijons comme near the Kowloong shore k., and those in the body: Conjunction with the figura denoting the section

masked

3. From Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour Master's Ofice. 4 From Harbour Master's to the P, and U. Co's Dick –

Feriel's Name.

st... Albag ....... Auchines Belgie.......

Moat countries to which Hongkong for Dalo... wards Correspondence having joined the Danube. General Portal Union or being probable Decima about to do so, it is necessary that the Diamanto

Electra...... following rules be strictly oba rred.

Captain,

Ring and Tons.

Wanho

5. From F. and O. Co's Offer to Podis" a

6. From Paddar's Wharf to the Kaval Yard.

From Nayal Yard to the Pi.

8. From Piar to Karl Poink

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Str.

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May 19 Yen Ski Hong

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Countries of the Postal ion The Union may be taken to comprise

1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be Emuy...... Europe, moat foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, blauritius, all N. America,

Mexico, Salvador, Chili, registered or u registared, can be recrived Esmeralda. Brazil, Faru, Venezuela, The Argentine for Portageif it contains gold or silver money, Fame..... Hepablio, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, Fokien Honduras, Bermuda, Labuan, with all as a general rule, is liable to Customs Gravina Danish, Fronch, Netherlande, Portugueso duties.

2. This Regulation prohibits the sending and Spanish Colonies.

of Patterns of dutisblo articles, unless the quautity sout be to small as to make the sample of no valué.

Countries nor in the Union-The chief countries not in the Union are the Aus traisaian ironp....

Portage to Union Countries. General Rates, by any route"- Letters,

10 cents per 02.

B cents each

Post Cards, Registration, Newspapers,

Books, Patterns and

10 conte

2 conta sach.

Comm. Papers, 2 cents per 2 oz. There is no charge on rodirected corre. pondence within the Postal Union.

Postage to Non-Union Countries. Hawaiian Kingdom :- Letters,

10 None, Registration, Newspapers, Books & Fatterus, 5*

5*

30

Note

20

The limits of weight allowed are al follówa —

Books and Paporn-to British Offic 8, 5 Tbs.; to the Continent, &c., 4 lbs. Pattorato British Offices, 5lbs if with

out intrinsic valus; to the Contluent,

c., 8 oz

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The Post Office is not legally responsible Anna Bertha for the safe delivery of Registered corres Canton pondence, but henceforth it will be pre-Carl

Catalina make good the contents of such Catalin parad correspondence loat while passing through Centennial

in cortin the extent of $10, an

Charito Poat, to the

provided!- essay

1. That the Conditions sonder daly observed all the i China.

of Registration require. That the loiter was securely

envelope.

Austin. Bearse Ronille Kawaoka

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Star Hotel, good accommodation for visitors at moderate rates, 110, Queen's Road Ceutral.-J. Cook, Proprietor.

Stores, Books, &c, Publishers of the Largest Collection of which useful serial a year or

West ladics (Non Union)t, Bolivie, has of Views in the Empire, and genre: beeri

regretted in Europe as well as Illustrations of the Chinese.-AFONG's Costa Rim, Ecuador, Guatemala, New In China. Thepresent publication, judging PHProQUAPHIC STUDIO, Queen's Granada, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,

Cruguay Lettur, General Outhtter, Hosier, Tailor, Registration, &-T N. Daisco, 45 and 47, Newspapers, Queen's Road, by special appointment Books & Pait to H.E. the Governor.

Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and a resonably

3 That, application was maile to the Georgina..... "Dia Torres Straits, Letters, 12'; Ra- Maps und Charts.-G. FALCONER & Co., gitation, Vat calls, Letters, 20 Romediately the luas was discovered, the James S. Stone...

pronometers, Watches, Jewelery,gistration, 16; Newspapers, 2: Books and Postmaster Kieneral of Hongkong in Hamburg

envelope being Queen's Road Central.

forwarded with Jab gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and envel

invariably

in lost. it also such application unless it Patieros, 4.

the Postmaster General is satis Llewellyn J. Moreo

the corres Nautilus.... fed that the loss occurred whilst the ponderos was in the custody of the British Palestine Postal administration in

a in China, that it wa not paused

on the by

PIZATO the any fault

part of sender, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, Spartan nor by the disho esty or negligence of ang Spirit of the Age person not in the employment of the Twilight Hongkong Post Office.

number now before us, is intended to occupy & poultion," & regarda Chins and the neighbouring countries, somewhat similar to that which has been filled in India by the Caleutia Review. The great degree of at tention that has been bestowed of late years upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiquities and social developmost to say

of

istic studies, has led to the accumulation of importans cores of informe ation

rendering some such channel of

pub

Tinity

as is now provided extremely desir aulo; and contributions of much interest may fairly be looked for from the members of the foreign consular services, the Chinese Customs

corps, and the missionary among whom a high degree of scholarship is now atiduously cultivated, and who are severally represented in the first number of the Review by papers highly creditable to their respective authors. In a paper on Dr. Legge's She King, by the Rev. E. 3.

to which the place of Kitol, honear is deservedly, given, an excellent Summary is presented of the chronological problems and arguments involved in con., nexion with this important work. Bote translations from Chinese novels and plays are marked by both accuracy and freakiness of style ; and an account of the career of the Chinese

by y Mr. E. C. Bowra,

century, theo of the eleventh

la not only historically

y valuable, but is also

distinguished by its literary grade. Beside

notices of

of new books relating to China

the East, which will be a upoful feature

涟

the Rette, carried out with punctuality we are glad to notice that

and

**Notes and Queries" are destined to

And

00

place

In ita pages

also. It is to be hoped

ed that this opening for contributions Chinese anbject may evoke a

a similar peal to that which was degree of

during

the lifetime of its prede the field, and that the China Review niny receive the support necoasary to insure Ita continuance. The publication is intend. ed to appear every two months, and will forma a substantial octavo magazine.

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The projectors, basing their estimates upon the most reliable Information from the various Ports in China and Japan, from Australia, Cali

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copies. The advantages offered to advers

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New York

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New York

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To-morrow daylight 2loon Dock

Portland (Oregon) Wanchal Fier

San Francisco

Havre and Hamburg

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OHINESE

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Lests of Money Urner Offom in the United Kingdom may be consulted at Hongkong and Shanghai..

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