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Intimations.

THE OHINA REVIEW.

Visitors Column.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Hongkong Kates of Postage.

(Revised June 28, 1880. J

Loval Parool Pest

We have instituted as an experiment VISITORS COLUMN, which we trust T continuance of Notes & Queries on

THE widely-expressed regret at the dis will prove successful, and be found use China and Japan, has induced the publishful To it will be relerated from time ers of this journal to issue a pabitation to time such items of information, lists, sirailar in object and style, but slightly tables and other intelligence as is con-up charged as donbla, treble, o, as the Registration. The parola may be wholly modified in certain details.

sidered likely to prove valuable to per- sons passing through the City, and

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1. Small Paroels may be sent by Pon between any of the Post Uffons in China or Japan, as well as to Macio, Pak- in the following Statements and Tables ho, Singapore Penang, and the Rates are given in cents, and are for They must not exceed the following silmen- for Books and song, 2 feet long, 1 fost broad; 1 foot deep, Letters per half ounce, for Book Fatterns, per to uncertain or welva more than 51 The postage Newspapers over four ounces in weight will bs 20 cents per tb., which will include case may be, but such papers or packets or closed if they bear this special endorse Newspapers must not be folded together as any parcel may be opened by direction of one, nor must anything whatever beinwerted the Postmaster General. except bona ide Supplements, Printed 2 The following cannot be transmitted': matter may, however, be enclosed, if the Parcels insufficiently packed or protected, whole be paid at Book Bate. Prides Cursor liable to be crushed (19 Bendboxes rent may Book be paid either a Newspapers or de) Gidas, Liquids, Explosive subatardes, Matches, Indigo, Prestufe Id., Meat, Commercial Papers signify sich bear is dangerons to the Mails, or likely to be- Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever as though Written by Hand, do not the character of an sotual or personal core come offensive or injurious in tramit

Queries on the Far East, is larged at in- 'in connection with swe have opened epers may be sent at Book Bate. Two i ment, FatCELY CONTAINING NO LESTNE; bat:

Tak CHINA REVISE or Notes and

tervals of two months, each number con

a SELECT HOTEL AND BUSINESS taining about 60 obtaro pages, occasionally DIRECTORY, Spplications for enrolment illustrated with lithographs, pictographe woodcuts, &, should the papers published into which we are now ready to receive demand, and the circulation justify, such extra matter.

is fixed at $5.50 postage The subscription: paid, per annum,

by non-residents in Hongkong half-yearly in advance.

The publication includes papors original Ethnology, Folklore, Geography, History, Literature, Mythology, Manners and Gur toms, Natural History, Religion, da, do, of China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, the Eastern Archipelago and the Far East

subjects

and selected upon the Arts and Sciences,

List of Public Buildings. Government House, North of Public,

Gardens,

City Hall, Library (8,000 volumes) and

Museum, Free. Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque

To facilitate finding the position of Khy, volks „Green Island. – Vonela moar, the Hoigkong,

Shipping ne midway between sach show me yöne

1 From Green Irland to the Guy 7 From Cas Works to the Növde, 3. From Novelty Irón Works to this 4. From Barbour Master's to the

Section

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spondence, such as lovoices, desde, copied

Farols will general rule be fors music, die. The charge on them is the same warded by Private Ships bot by Contrast as for books? whatever the weight of

Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the right of selecting the opportunity for trans not ba

than 5

in case mission, and of delaying delivery cute charged

other orrespondence. No responsibility Cleveland the number of parcela is moh as to retard Belloni

retreat and of great Road Cen-packet consistog ang pardally, this The Clock Tower, Queen's

traf, if a line with Pedder's Wharf route

generally. A more detailed list of a General Post Office, Hongkong Clab, The Ide Of Return eco is abeopled with regard to any parool, but

upon which contributions are especially invited is incorporated with 'onch number.

within a stone's throw. German Club, Supreme Court, &c.,

Consolation

of any Registered Article

with s may accompany on paying an extra fee of 5 cents,

The limit of weight for Books and Com- the system of Registration will secure the Danbe Original any but a remoto pro: america

German, Spania, Italian or Por Government Offices, the Secretariat, C., 4 lbs. Patterns for such offices are limited bability of loss, e tuguese, are admissible. Badeavours are made to prosent A raamo in each number of the contents of the most recent works bearing on Chiness matters. Great attention is also paid to the Review department.

Noten and Replies are olassified toge ther a "Notes" (head references being given, when furnished, to previota Nates Or Queries), as are also those queries which though asking for information, faradali new or or published details concerning the mat ter in hand. It is desirable to make the

to

near the Public Gardens.

St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), above

the Parade Ground.

dimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 2

to 8 chness, and must not exed these

Inobe

Roman Catholic Cathedral, Wellington N., mean No Registration.

Street.

Union Church, Elgin Street.

St. Peter's Seamen's Church, West Point. St. Joseph's (R.C.) Church, Garden

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

The publio are cautioned not to con Foklen found these facilisirs with a Parcel Post to Kang chi Rurope, &c, which does not exist

Countries of the Postal Union. The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, most foreign possessions in Arly Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius," ali N. America, Mexico, Salvador,

Chill,

1. No Letter or Packet, whether to he A

3. Yenzuela, he argentine registered or registered, can be received Republic,

Trinidad, Guiana, for Postageif contains gold or silver money,

Mentho Namos Most countries to which Hongkong for- Ningpo- wards Correspondence having joined the Ping-or General Portal Union or being probable Quints following rules be strictly observed. Strathleven about to do so, it is necessary that the Ses Gall

Sumida Maru Thales

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Queries proper as brief and as muck E, E. A. and China Telegraph Co., and dara Bermudas: Labuan, with all | jewels, precious articles, or anything that, I

the polat as possible

The China Review for July and Augusi, 1875, 14 at hand. It mya that forty-two essays were sent in to compete for the best paper on the advantages of Christianity for the development of a State. All our learn- ed societies should subscribe to this scholarly and enterprising

It is a sixty Revie paged, bi-monthly, repertory of what schab lars are ascertaining about China. TAO lecture on Chiness Poetry in this volume in the Review. Ad- alona worth the price

reas Chirie Review, Hongkong.-Northern Christion Advocats (U.8.)

Trubner's Oriental Record contains the fol- lowing!

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

The Barracks and Naval and Military

French, Netherlands, Portuguese as a general rule, is liable to Customs -duties, and Spanish Colonies.

Countries Not in the Union-The abiel

2. This Regulation probibits the wending. countries not in the Union are the Aus of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the tralasian Group

quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no vaiko,

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

ID cents per t oz. Post Cards,

8 centa each. Registration,

Store Departurents lia to the cast Newspapers and

ward, and cover a large area,

Hotels.

Stag Hotel, good accommodation for

the title of the Ming Review —“ This į visitors at moderate rates, 110, Queen's

publication, the first number

of which has lately reached us from Hong Long, where It has been set on foot as fo some respects a continuation of

Notes

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and

Interest

Road Central.-J. Cook, Proprietor.

Stores, Books, &c. Publishers of the Largest Collection

Books,

10 cents.

2 canta anch.

Comm Papers,

2 cents per 2 oz. There is no charge on

redirected corre spondence within the Postal Union.

Postage to Non-Union Countries. Hawaiian Kingdom →→ Letters, Registration, Newspapers,

10 Noné. 5*

Books & Patterns, 5*

of Views in the Empire, and genre West Indies (Non: Union)†,- Bolivist Illustrations of the Chineso. A FONG's Costa Rica, Guatemala, New Grazada, PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, 8, Queen's Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay T

Letters, Road

Registration, Books & Patterns, 10 Newspapers,

General Outfitter, Hosier, Tailor, &T N. Darecott, 45 and 7 Queen's Road, by special appointment to H.E. the Governor..

Chronometers, Watches, Jewellery, Maps and Chorts.-G. FALCONER & Co. Queen's Road Central,

Travelling Requates of all kinds, Books, e-LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

American and English Stores, Books,

Queries on China and Japan, the

the extinction of which useful sarial a year or two ago has

much regretted in

in Europe as well na. Thepresent publication, judging by the number now before us, is intended to occupys position, as regards China and the neighbouring countries, somewhat similar to that which has been filled in India by the Calcutta Review. The

The great degree. of at tention that has been bestowed of late years upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiquities, and social developments, to

Bay nothing of linguistic studies, has led to the accumulation of important stores of inform ation, rendering some anchi channel of licity as is now provided extremely desir able; and contributions of much may fairly be looked for from the membere

Customs corps, and the missionary body.

American Newspapers and cheap Re- among whom

degree of Chinese scholarship is now saiduously cultivated, prints, de, choice Tobacco and Cigars and who ste severally represented in the first | Moonn's VARIETY STORB, 42, number of the feview by papers highly Queen's Road.. creditable to their respectiva anthora. In A paper on Dr. Legge's She King, by the Rer. E. J. Eitel, to which the place of hopour ta deservedly given, an excellent summary is presented of the chronological problems and arguments involved in con nexion with this important work. Some translations from Chinese novels and plays are marked by both securacy and freshness of style and an account of the career of the Chinese poet-statesman of the eleventh century, Su

by Mr. B. 0, Bowra

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Natal, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascen- alon, via Aden, Letters, 25; Registration,

3. The limits of weight allowed are as follows

Books and Papers-to British Offles, 5 lbs; to the Continent, de, 4 lbs. Patterns to British Offices, 5lbs. It with

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we are glad to notice that "Notes" and Quaries" are destined to find a place in its paged also. It is to be hoped that this opening for contributions on Chinese subjecte may eroka a similar degree of literary zeal to that which was displayed during the lifetime of its prede cessor la the field, and that the China Rerica may receive the support necessary to fosure its couthsuance. The publication is intend ed to appear every two months, and will formibetantial octavo, magazine...

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