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WHAT THE ENGLISH THINK OF THE AMERICANS.
(From "England from a Dack- Windon"
by J. M. Bailey.)
We are all more or less bigoted antil we travel. Car on institutions and customs grow to be considered the best institutions and the only true customs until we have opportunity to compare
them with other customs and institutions. All that we hear--and this is to both
prepare and inform you-is not exactly trus. I have shown that all the English are Dot morose, sullen, and exclusive; and I have tried to show as many as I have come in contact with that the American people are not wholly boots or swaggins, the only two classes many English recognize in America.
fhave claimed that the average Eng lish women is at No tastefully dressed an the average American woman.
the English workman does more talking, and less work, than his American brother; and a great deal of time is lost in stepping out for heer.
THE CHINA MAIL.
They call Michigan, Mitchygin; and Connecticut, Connerfy-cut. But the name of Chicago is their chief hold. Even the terrible fire was more merciful
Visitors' Column.
Hongkong Rates of l'ostage.
(Revised June 23, 1880.)
Local Parcel Post.
[No.
[No. 5834.-August 14, 1880.
PATTERNS.-Some difficulty is experlered 1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post in obtaining a general understanding of between any of the Post Lffices in Chins what is a Pattern. It is a bond file sample or Japan, as well as to Blacao, Pak of goods which the sender has for sale, or of goods which he wishes to order. It is In the following Statements and Tablos hot, Singapore, Penang, and Malaccato consist of the smallest possible quantity the Rates are given in cents, and are, for They must not exceed the following din compatible with shewing what the goods Letters, fer half ounce, for Hooks and sions, 3 feet long, 1 font broad, I foot deep, sex, and must have no intrinele value.
nor weigh more than 5lbs. The postage Pastorus, per two ounces.
Nawapaporn over four ounces in weight will be 20 cents per lb., which will include Registration. The parcels may be wholly are charged as donble, treble, do, as the ad if they bear this special endorse sums of money to or from this Colony and I was conducted over Christ Hospital sidered Bikely to prove valuable to per case may be, but such pap Rate. Tealment. PARCEL, CONTAININO KO LETTER, but between the Porta of China, the Port-
We have instituted as an experiment B VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust will prove successful, and be found use mt. To it will be relegated from time to time such items of information, lists, tables and other intelligence as is con-
or packets or
any parcel,
The wages of mechanics in England that are they. They complacently vary, like those in America, according denominate it Chi-hago, Chi-cog-o, to the market.
Chick-a-go, Chen-ng-o; but the favorite To the country they get from sevenly-roudering is Shr-caggy. five cents to a "doilar and a quarter day, and in the eity from a dollar to a hý a young Englishman who saw that I dollar and seventy-five cents.
was an American, and, being acquainted sous passing through the City, and papera may bo scut at Book
we have opened Newspapers must not be folded together as say in connection with with the place, kindly offered to give!
a Spiker
HOTEL AND BUSINESS one, nor mast anything whatever be insected and Forte may be opened by direction of me all necessary information.
DIRECTORY, applications for enrolment except bond Edo Supplements,
2. The following cannot be translated: matter may, however, be enclosed, if the Parcela insufficiently packed or protocìod,
reut may be paid either as Newspapers or do.) Glass, Liquids, Explosive abatances, Bonke.
Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, Ice, Most, Commercial Papers signify such papers Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever us, though Written by Hand, do not bear is dangerous to the Mails, or likely to be the character of an actual or personal cotre- come offensive or injurious in transit. spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copled
This is somewhat less than American wages; but it must be taken into con- aderation that many of the necessaries of life cost. less bure; and a very good breastpin can be got for a quarter. Land will average well a price with that in New England; n the mechanics of England are not landholders, They universally rent; und rents are less hore, startling ns is the statement, than iu New England and the Middle States.
I saw a very pretty two-story house, I am told here that the average Eng-with an acre and a fall of very highly- lish woman is superior in dress to her cultivated guruen, and an acre of pasta American sister, in that she dresses rage with abundance of srabling, ent plainly while the American woman
for two hundred and fifty dollars per arraya berself in flasby colors, und
andum; and it was within two miles aporis a swell sir.
and a half of a flourishing city. 11 was not an exceptional ense.
Does she?
The swell American woman dress richly, as her husband or father well knows, but not flashily,
Taxes are high, but they are mostly the local tis. It regurés money to keep their roads in the magnificent can dition for which they are famed, and to take care of their your as penerously as they do.
To Norfolk County, the chief agricul- tural distries, the fares are about five
Printed
To provide means of remitting small
required) to purokass. Hongkong Postage Stamps from foreign residents. masters and Agents are allowed (but not
Between Hongkong and Yokohama, how-
in either evers
He said he had a brother in America, into which we are now ready to receive. whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Cure or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, must be rection, Money Orders
who was here on a visit last summer, and from whom he learned much that was valuable and strengthening in the way of slang. He felt quite proud of the advantages he enjoyed. I could see that plainly enough. He frequently turned from an elaborate painting, an ancient wall, or a fine onument, to show off his accomplishments from America.
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He told me in a confidential whisper that he had a pair of pants made with a pocket an bebital, just as they do in America," and was very anxious that I should go around to his boase, about!
four miles distant, and see them.
I was fairly consuming with navicty to see the gorgengs weches, but an engagement prevented, and i reluctantly declined the invitation.
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List of Public Buildings. Government House, North of Public
Gardens.
City Bull, Lileury (8,000 volumes) and
Blusento,-Free.
Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque
retreat and of great interest. The Clock Tower, Queen's Road Cen- teni, in a line with ledder's Wharf. General Post Office, Hongkong Club, Gemaan Club, Sopreme Court, &c., within a stone's-throw. Lusitano Club and Library, Sheiley St. Government Others, the Secretariat, &c.,
near the Public Gardens.
St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), love
the Parade Ground, Rouan Catholic Cathedral, Wellington
Street
And, really, is a man in broadcloth and kids inferiorly, dressed to the man
I have been obliged to give up carry-{ in blue jean and dog-skin gloves? Blue
ing my handkerchief in the hip-porket, ¦ Union Church. Elgin Street. jean and dog-skin are the plainer of the
The operation of drawing it forth, and S. Peter's Semen's Church, West Point, two suits. It is not the quality of the
restoring it to 11s place, fade me alto, St. Joseph's (RC) Church, Garden gooda, but their style of making up and per cent, of which the Government levygether four conspicuous for comfort. Real, near Kennedy Road. wearing them.
is but one-fith. England's debt is im- ! But I was speaking of taxes. Temperance Hall, spécially adapted for I am proud to think, that, while our
The man who neither owns nor rente
sen-faring men, Queen's Road East. American woman dresses in bigh-priced; but England's resources are still ¦
property says no taxes. It is neither Sailors' Home, West Point.
E. E. A. and China Telegraph Co., and the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Marine Huns, Queru's Rond. Masonic Unit, Zetinad Street. Victoria Recreation Club-Bath-bonss and Boat-bruse, &c.,-Prayn, beyond the Cricket Ground, beside the City Huil
goods, she shows admirable taste in selecting and combining the colors; and there is a class of woman, unless it is the English and Esquimaux, less open to the offence of tawdry apparel.
There is a pluinneas that is too decided to be tasteful.
more intense,
taxes on the property, and thos The man who rents can pay the rates vote: without su doing he cannot handle the ball. These ales and taxes are, one-quarter the rest, and are! deducted thereticon.
abont
Suppose, for instance, a muté's real as And perhaps, if the matter were sifted
a hundred dollars the assessmont is, down very closely, it would be found therefore, twenty-five dollars; and, by that the women of the middle classes in taking the respitsbality of at, he gets America dress at less cost than the lease at seventy five dollars per an same class in England. The Engheb woman does not think she is dressed up unless she has on a silk gown. Silk costs much less here than it does in America, to be sure; but this is offset by the fact of wages being much less here than there.
The English per some other things regarding us, but pardonably, I believe, It is the style of American journalism, especially in the Far West, to exag- gerate it in sino its style to jest on tragic subjects.
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overshoods e everything that is taxes.
The last government renoved the duties forum several urticles of necessary consumption.
fanon was a carriage, be pays a tax upon it at three dilurs and seventy- rear- it it is a two-wheel, and of like dollars and twenty-five cents if 11 48 four-whorl conveyance. Some of the larueles tated in our country are taxed inge, others that we bax they do not.
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The Barracks and Moral and Military Store Departments lin to the east- wad, and cover a large uren,
music, &c. The charge on them is the same
a
cents.
se for books, but, whatever the weight of packet containing ang partially written paper, it will not be charged loss than 5 The sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 5 conta.
Books and Com mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices La to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these 4 lbs. Patterns for such offices are limited
The limit of weight
dimensions: & inches by 4 inches by 2
inches.
N.R. means No Registration.
Countries of the Postal Union.
The Stampa tendered for sale must not exceed $50 in value, must be perfectly clean, in good condition, and in strips of st least as no separate Stamps will be purchased. They must be presented per somally or
or accompanied by a note. 3. Farcels will as a general rule be for
The Postmaster or Agent may postpone warded by Private Ship, not by Contract Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the purchasing if his pabllo faude in hand ars not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase right of selecting the opportunity for trans-
and of delaying delivery in cams in any case which appears doubtful of
of parcals" is such number
in retard suspicious.
to charge a is accepted with regard to any parool, but purchasex. other
Correspondence. No responsibility Commission of one per cent on all Stamps the system of Registration will secure the cenders against any but a very remote pro- bability of loss.
26 to
4. The public are cautioned not to con- found these facilitics with a Parcel Fost to Europe, &o, which does not exist.
Most countries to which Hongkong for wards Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probable about to do so, it is necessary iant the following rulos be strictly observed.
The Union may be taken to compries Europe, most foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauriting, all N. Aurica, Mexico, Salvador, Chili, 1. No Letter or Packot, whether to be Brazil, 'etu, Venezuela, The Argentine registered or unregistered, can be resolved Republie,
Gulana, for Postageif it contains gold or silver money, Jamaica, Trinidad, Houdursa, Bermuda, Labuan, with all jewels, precious artioles, or anything that,
and Spanish Colonies. Walsh, French, Netherlands, Portuguese as a general rule, is liable to Custom
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending countries not in the Union are the Aus of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the traissian Group.
quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no value.
Countries NOT in the Union, -The oblef
Portage to Enion Countries. General Rates, by any route :--- Letters,
10 cante per 02. Post Cards, Registration, Newspapers,
Books, Patterns and Comm. Papers,
8 conts each.
10 cents.
2 cents each.
2 cents per 2 oz.
There is no charge ap redirected curre spondence within the Postal Union.
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Hawaiian Kingdom
10 Letteraj Registration, None, Newspapers,
** 5* Books & Patterns,
West Indies (Non Union)t, Bolivist. Conta Rica, Guatemala, New Granada, Nicaragua, Panama, Paragnay¶. Letters, Kegmiration,
Nono.
10
30
duties.
3. The limits of weight allowed are as follows:-
Books and Papers-to Britisk Offo ́s,
Ihs.; to the Continent, &o., 4 lbs. Patterns to British Offices, 5lbs, if with- out Intrinsic value; to the Continent, da, 8 oz
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Letter. The Post Office 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 wblle passing through
cases, provided --
the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain
1. That the sender duly observed all the conditions of Registration require.
2. That the lotter was accurely enclosed
If tho rutes dentene in any year, Thear is me duty on watches, jewelry, during the lease, he saves modry, at lue musend instruments, An English- they crease, le lasts,
Stores, Books, &c. man who owns a gun pays two dollars.
General Outfitter, Hosier, Tailor, Many pretor to go without, the bullot, stal fily reats for the privilege ; und, if
he wand to enjoy the pleasure of heating, &c.-T. X. DiscoL, 45 and 47, to theurcing this ask.
The mechanic in the provincial towns he pays seventy-five cents a year. The is (aren's Hand, by special appointment ho parns ne daliar a day wom no better shot than many of the Nuovi ds is H.E. the Governor, fortably support
wf and twa who lover about Banbury, that seventy- Chronometers, Watches, Jewellery, children, and save twenty-five dollars m, five cents is a dead loss. the year.
The rate of interest here is about five Maps and Charts. FALCONER & CO.,
Queen's Road Central. This will give you a comprehensive ! per cent.
Amene and English Stores, Books, view of the situation in this tax-oppress This is tax-ridden and down-trodden" These exaggerations and dow petroolen country. Chave country, but the people who live here EwEN, FRICKEL & CO.
and specially selected Cigars.-MAC-
Newspapers, and jests are readily seized upon by beer very partientur to inquire into the und bei in the yoke have an unpiens. English journals as illustrative of our edition of the wacking peuple, beenuseant habit of looking healthy and happy.
3. That application was made to the American Newspapers and cheap Re: Hooki & Patterns, characteristics, and sowed brondrast
Postmaster Goberal of Hongkong im prints, de, chcice Tobeco and Cigars. Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, &mediately the loss was discovered, the among their people. It is the misfortune
VARIETY STURE, 42, Fiji, via Torres trails, Lettore, 12; Re- And then clothes ena be longht here - MOORE'S of the English ant to understand an and Cast every weessary of he was for one-half the price used in Americo, Queen's Road.
gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and envelope being invariably forwarded with Patterns, 4: Via Galle, Letters, 25; Re. such application unless I also is lost. American joke. The fatal consequence taxed almost beyond reach of the comp-and daily there is presented the astonish. Watches, Jewellery, Charts, Binocu-gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and can be imagined. They believe of all
taon people.
ing spectacle of the citizens of a live and, hare, Optical Instruments, Mordan's Pattorns, 4. America just as the people of the Eastern
By conversation with all classes, I prosperous country coming to this op¦¦ Perseri-cuses, &e. Jonx NOBLE, ogen!! States believe of the Territories and learn that there is a lat universal pressent laust to buy their clothes, for Negreta & Zaubra. California, when, if the truth were hungering to get cast of Rugland which It is aws. known, there is less cutting and slash ing in the Far West than in the Far
East.
I have been taught from difines that | It isn't right. the acne of taxation was reabed here,
Arch represents; and when I go through the lanes, and biok over the broad, bright green fields, and the Au able school teacher in Norfolk hlossoming lodges, and the wonderfully asked me the other day if all American trim homes smuthored ja avy and chud gentlemen did not have either a pistolfing roses, I am glad of it. or knife concealed about their person.
In the estimation of those who have not seen him, a fullblooded American is a sort of perambulating arsenal, con-
"Ah! iusteed it is a beuatiful country, --so beautiful, that even a poet might work in it
But we have some advantages. We have plenty of ice and oysters, two very rare buxuries here. As high as twelve cents pound is paid for is in some parts of England; and as for oysters, they are nowhere. Their oysters are¦ small, and less pidatable than ones; but je they pay from forty-six to eighty-five
erots u dezen for them.
The English ster
Guns, tiles, Pistols, Ammunition, and Sportsman's Requisites of all descrip- tious-WM. Scur & Co., Gun- ankers, Eastern House of Beaconsfield
reale.
Chair and Boat Hire.
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stantly shedding bullets, bowies, nod about their ones! shall not his ab enn hugs," ls on a great LEGALISED TARIFF OF FAREs tut OBLI
torpedoes.
And such a tasty people they are
CALLY ume urposed to hand gudands
Ba
what can he said of security without peanuts? in the whole
I have yet to see a yard that is not a length and breadth of tuis fait faod lower of is not roses, while many of here not a single penant. Think, it the humble places have a variety bud you can grasp the thought, of a country abandanes of toners and shrubs that homey with history, and glorified with world debght the most exacting horti- rominee, passing over the cycles of culturtat.
centuries without peanuts.
I shouldn't have thought it could do
The predisposition of the intravelledrowning the dus beats of the streels. that English to believe that American ladies are lacking in refinement is materially aggravated by an English playwright, who has written "An American Lady," which is rendered nightly to large and appreciative nudiences at the Criterion Theatro in London. The American lady
And they and hully prom 5,00 thus exhibited is hordenisu, slangy, truely a very gard and long culine, swaggering, bullying, and in-avery wall, while the broad sworp of 1 have not been a pair of boots sinue describably offensive.
lawn and park, and perspective of I have been in England. Shoes are the I could readily see by the capressiewood, devotues, n the estates of the universal artele of foot wear; and those of those in the audience ass to me that wealthy squire o nobleman, are chutn-piled around by the laborers are thickly they accepted the character as a verying to a degree that is exhilarating. studded with staring nail-heads. Bight fair representation of an American ladý.
Why, even that range of pre ones of these nails are frequently used An English woman on making a call tous hills which is between Derby in a pair of shore, and some pairs used dons her best, which is considered as a and Manchester, where the sales are suby ninets have from a pound and a half compliment to the person called upon step that you can almost see any one Un receiving calls, she takes equal caro
come in at the gate by looking up the not to don her bent, for fear she may chinury, stone walls laid up in masoury sacel her caller, which would be a dis-
surround the humble homes, unit zuges courtesy.
fairly foun over their tops
There is a genuine delicacy of feeling in this custom.
Whatever the English may belove of our institutions and customs, many of them have ennobling ideas of money making in America.
Aside from the historical associatieto,
England is worth coming a thousand
miles to sec
Almost every farully has some relative America, and I am frequently asked about them, Has a poor Englishman judec who hasn't a States.
cousin in the
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to evo pounds of these iron was in them.
A tvarite fashion with the Indies is
wearing black or lead-colored stockings
I am told.
And yet there sectus to be about as mach marrying here as in America.
The Uhloem population of the Colway of Victoria decresend 2427 between Jannaty, 1976, and May, 1880.
A LEARNED American counsel, in the middle of an sicilog appeal in court in o
Unair Braners, and Busts, JS THE COLONY of HomerONU,
Likatza and Ordinary Pullaway Boats. state hour, ctx. Hour, 20 cle Three house,..00 pts. | Six hours,...........70cta Day (from 6 to 6), One Dollar.
TO VILTORIA PEAL Single Tryp.
SLOU
Three Cudies, Two Coulies,
Fieturn (direct or by l'uk jou tum), Three Coolies, Four Coolies,
...$2.60 1.20 Two Coolles,...
0.86 0.70
... 100
To Vasconia UAE (TO LEVEL or Uxbuellt
XAS.) Single Trip
For Unlion,
Three Coolies, Two Coolies,
$0.00 0.50
0.40
...$1.00 0,86
... 0.70
Return (direct or by Pok-foo-lum). Four Coolies, Three Coolies, ... Two Coolies, ..
The Return Fare embraces a trip of not more than three hours.
Numbers have left here for America with a view to making a fortune in three or four years without much effort, and
For every hour or part of an bour above Wherever, I am recognised neelonder suit, gave the following burat of three hours, each Coolie will be entitled to returning to live in a castle with hot being an American.
In the cars, genius Slander, gentlemen, like a an additional payment of 0 cents. and cold water on every floor.
the stage-couch or omnibus, in the boa-coustrictor of gigantle size and im Where are they?
hotels, or on the roud, I daily hear, asurable proportions, wraca the cuils of Day Trip | Peak........$0 76 each Coolie. There are others whe fall into the "You are frula Aaerica, sir?" and then the nuwieldig body about its unfortunate (12 hours) Gap, $0.60 each Coolie. other extreme, and I have been very fullows questioning about the people. in, and, heedless of the shrieks of aguny come from the inmost depths of the victim's soul, loud and reverberating as the mighty thunder that rolls in the heavens, it fiuafly breaks its unlucky povk against the iron wheel of public opinion, auer, and faslly crnabing him in the
of our money.
that
much edified by intelligent but rather thair unstums, and the chances for lengthy disquisitions on the valuelessness money-making.
Our mixed liquors and slang ure Here, where the money is hard gold never-failing subjects of interest to and silver and obese copper, the currency them. They have seen pictures of fossing him to desperation, then to mad
M. MYLLAND, who is writing a series of sketches of Life in England," explains in
one of his letters why sadness reigns in England. Be thloka English food must
is looked upon with a great deal of American bar-tenders mixing liquors by hideous jaws of moral death." curiosity; and people are much surprised pouring them from one glass to the to learn that a few trifles are still other, with the vessels as far apart as purchasable with it in America.
the hands can be extended; and they A man can conveniently carry around don't understand it. with him a thousand dollars of our They ask me if there are such drinks money, I have been told but a man as brandy-smashes, claret-punches, gin with a thousand dollars of the current slings, and the like; and when I tell but it is as thick as syrup. money of England in his pocket would them I am not quite sure, but think I have to be lifted about with a dorrick, have heard those things mentioned by
Licensed Bearers (each).
Hoar, Half day, Day, ...
...10 centa. 35 cents, ...60 centa,
BOAT AND COOLIN HIRE
BOATS,
1st Class Cargo Beat of 8 or 900
picula, por Day,
1st
Natal, the Cape, St. Holece, and Assen. sion, via Aden, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Nowspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 6
** A small extra charge is made on delivory.
+ There is Registration to British W. ludia Islands, 19 conts. To the Bahamas and Hayti, The San Francisco roule is available. Registration via San Francisco; 10 cents,
*Cannot be sent via San Francisco.
(d), and the Philip
pines (d)
LOCAL POSTAGE
direction,.. Between any other two and Macao, in either
(through a Chins (d), Toaquin Japan. Siam, Cochin Kong, Macao, China.
of the following Bril180
Between Hongkong, Canton,
10
22
Booka
Parcels,
Letters
Regis-
Neirs.
and
per ib.
peroz tralim.
per 2 oz. Registry. |
cents
cents.
cerit.
cents.
GERIA.
(d) No Parcel Post.
cents.
papers. Patterns, including
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 hpusos of the addressees rather than at places of business, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the sender, otherwise all $8.00 correspondence is invariably delivered at
the nearest placs of business.
Class Cargo Bout of 8 or 900
2.00
J
piculo, pur Load,...
2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600
piouls, por Day, 2nd Class Carge Boat of 600
Load,...
in a reasonably strong envelope.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Unclaimed Correspondence, 1 1
August 18, 1880.
Aching, Miss Adshead, E. Angan Apps Saino
Kvong Tai.
Lota. Fas 1 regl
1 rogi.
Kwong Wing Hi 1
Lai Hing
Lamberti
Lete. Pap.
1
1
1
Atan Andrus
1
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Atbaido Dom. ingos, R.
Leon, Oswald
1
Li Song & Co. Ligi, A.
Baker, Mr. C. Dates, Che. P.
1
Lanza Gay
1
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4 That the Postmaster General is satis | God that the loss occurred whilst the corres- Der 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 sander, by destruction by fire, or shipwreck, nor by the diabo.esty or negligence of any person not in the employment of the Hongkong Post Office.
5. No compensation can be paid for more damage to fragile articles such as portraits, watches, handsomely bound books, dc, which reach thuir destination, although iù a broken or deteriorated condition.
Money Order Regulations. 1-Money Ordera are exchanged with
gineer) Holl, Jas. (En- Blake, Rev. C.M. 1 Boty Yock Stow 1 Hoddy, R. Brooks, W. T. 1 Barrows, Mrs. H. 2 Carvalho, 1
Jong, A.
Conza, P. B. Chase Bros.,
Mossos
Cheong Loong
Latouche, Capt. 1
Mackie, Mrs.
Maillor, Capt. 1 Malpiede, Gaitano I Membert, Chs. B. 1
Min King Mitchell, W.
Nam Trung
(Bent by)
1
1 pol
31 pet.
I regd.
Poreira Elts, M, 1
Prico, Monar
2
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Rego, Bobastico I
Richard, Mrs C. 1
Robertson, James
Rodrigues A1
Chio Yaw Mock 2 ragd. roca, M.
Chong Biog
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Salvatore Brincat 1
Sayue, Monst."
1
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1
Cohen, S, Constable, G. Coats, A. P. Costa, Esmenis 1 Coulson, Capt. 1 Cotwall, M. M. 1 Cross, foo Davanport, G.A.1
Dewar, John Dubon, Marie. 1
Olga
Song Wing Bhing 1
Sonza, 8. de
S. 9. S.
Steere, J. B.
Steggal, John
1
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1 bir.
1 regd.Stork, M, J. 1 1
Fah, Ferdinand Fredoris & Co. I Frinder, A. W. 1 Gis frien Goo War
1
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Thomson, Capt. R. 1 Tjong Hiso
1 Tong Sao Wo
1 regd.
1
1 card
2
1
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Ung Sang Loong 1 regd. Veneck (Professor) 1 Vetch, Charles
(Burgas)
2
1 regd.
Wan Sing Williams, C. E. Wing Chong
Loung Wool-Nam-Son i Wun Kum Trang 1
1 rogd.Xavier, F. B.
1
Yeung-chin
1
regd.
Grecaberg Joseph I Dr. Σ Tiang Long Harrison, Chs. Hartley, John Haywood, Jan, W. 1 Holst, C. Jesus, Thereza de 1 Jones, John
Канада, Х. 1 Hatmek, M. H. 1 Kahn, M.
Detained for Fostage. Dins Joao, S. D. Costa Rica 25 conts to pay. Wilkinson, E. (A. H. Corps)
1. Corps) } Barbados,
1 ent For Merchant Ships.
the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Alice Mary Queensland, South Australia and Port Alma Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Western Anus Bartha Australia, and (except at Shanghai) with the Japanese Empire.
Hongkong also Argo issues orders on Shanghai, and vice versa.
1
ting (sent by) Zimmermann,
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must be accompanied with the full ar
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McMillom
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Morras
1 Old Bridge
1 1 regd.Osaka
2 Pesarro
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(including commission) in cheque, postage Cula stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a. Wattanu little margin should be left for variations Diana Fanay of exchange. The Postmaster ises the Doctor Petermann 1
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applications in time, as the Money Order Flesber Oilces close some hours before the depar tures of the malla.
Frank Lambert 1 Frank Fendleton 1 more than two suck orders be issued to the Garibaldi
Glamorganshire. same person, in favour of the same payee, Halloween by the same mall. Orders will be drawn Hamon
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or include any fraction of a penny, nor will
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The commission is as follows:-----
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Orders on the United Kingdom. Up to £3. 18 cents. £b............ 36
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Local and Intercolonial Orders. Up to $20 or £5......25 conta.
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For Men-of-War, &c.
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Books, etc. without Covers.
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name) but the name of the Payee need not Allgemeine Zeitung. late, Dividend Warrauts, Invitations, Cards, be given if the order be crossed (as cheques Christian Herald. 1.50 o., all of the same weight, to addresses in
Hongkong, Bangkok,
or the Ports of Chins are arossed). It can then be paid only Cosmos.
Bank. and Japan, may deliver them to the Post through a Back, and may afterwards be Daily Review, Offed instamped, the postage being then specially crossed to any charged to the sender account. Kach 7No order can be paid till the Payee Express.
has signed it in the proper place. An Forfar Herald, dio,
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half-and-half with inextinguishable thirst
into
1.50
batch must consist of at least ten.
cribed you must not think of walking four-
1.00
50
the esues: It is nourishing, good, Holmon and potatoes, roast beef in onor. mous quantities, plain paddings like for tresses, and the whole washed down by Brd Clara Cargo Liost or Ha-kan Boat of 600 But there is no doubt that it is fro-worldly people in the States, they say, the entrails, After the dinner des 8zd Class Cargo Boat er Ha-kau Bost of 800
picals, per Day, quently a mistake for the English work- Ah, how wonderful !” ing-man to go to America. Our labor-
picule, per Load, I hope I haven't deceived those market is overstocked, and our labor is people."
toon yards without going into a bar, Thero 3rd Class Cargo Best or Ba-kan Boat of 800 you drink a brandy-and-sods standing, An American manufacturer of agricul-
But when they press me to tell them which relieves you a little, but not fer long. why Americans call some of their drinks The English also their thirst with tural machinery, who has good custom con-makers, soul-poisoners," and sherry contalaing a gre here, contemplated a branch factory death-shots," I am compelled to admit and that is throwlog all on the fro, or Pullaway Boats, per Day,
much different from what it is here.
but the experiment proved a failure.
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excuse them it must be remembered that He found and confessed, that, with the that I never heard the terms before; they eat but one meal a day, but that is higher price of iron in his own country, and then they look disappointed. very copious one. In the morning people
and get
wich and a glass of sherty, and then rash
she barinald to give them a sand-
pitals, Halt Day.
Sampans,
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Busbarer Nachrichten.
English Mechanic and World of Science.
4. Boxholders may also send Patterns order can be transferred to another office Geschichte und Entwickelungs
Iron Trade Journal.
to the same places in the same way. En on payment of an additional commission Hazapahire Telegraph and deser Ohreniale. velopes containing Patterns may be wholly In case of loss of an order, necessity for Handelsblatt. closed if the nature of the contents be first stopping payment, or the like, application stated London News. exhibited or stated to the Postmaster should be made to the nearest Money Iran. $1.00 General, as he may consider necessary, and Order Office for lustrustions,
Kemp'e Mercantile Gazelle. by him. Printed Circulars may povedala much Pattern Packers.
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entertained.
20
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10 be Affer & #queen....10 genta extra. Nothing in this Soale prevents private egres
FEZET COOLIES,
there is no such thing as Farcel Fost PARCELS,The public is reminded that, to Europe, do. Much trouble and disap pointment are caused by persistent attempts. to read small valuable trifles through the Post
Fans, Carios Articles of Dress, 25 cents Faney Work, and similar pressuta are con tinually being refused, the senders having
Boaks of Hire for Street Coolies,
out again, Confirmed loungers take their stand at the bar, and look a long time at One Day,...... the harmuld without speaking a word, and Half Day**** this contemplation lasts for ten minutes;
he could make the machines there, and They imagine that the universal who have work to do take bread and butter mettre pay the shipments hero, for less money channel for the expression of idens is and tea; very busy prople rush into a bar than it cost to manufacture in England. slang, and they repeat much that they In the States he got the wood cheaper; have heard, which possesses as much but the main item was in the labor novelty to me as it does to thei American labor cost more primarily; They handle our slang about as artis- bat the Yankee mechanic did double tically as they do our geography; and, the work in the same hours.
in this latter particular, they never seem From what I have seen on the farm to realize that Canada is not somewhere and in the shops and mills, I judge that concealed within the United States.
Three Hours,
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often spent more in Pastage than would
relative to it has been received.
9.-No order can be paid until the advice
* Made out on a printed form which is supplied
gratis.
have paid the freight by steamer. No + Local Orders on Shanghai are drawn at 2 por
refund can be made on such parcels of the
the lounger eate half of his sandwich, conne Hour templates again, cats another mouthful, at Hom drinks, re-contemplates, and goes out with- Nothing in the shore Boele to affoot private value of Stampa obliterated before the out saying good-bye,"
agreement.
nature of the contents was discovered.
cont. premiums in all cases. A szed del:
lar rate for drawing on the United King- dom is in force at Shanghai.
Balt (Song). Report of Brist Congregation. Saraine Religioase,
Tes for Sale (drcular). Times.
Kew York Howald.
Zuinermann's Strumpf Manufactor.
Printed and published by Geo. Munbay BAI, at the Uhina Mail Office, No. 2, Wyndham Street, Hongkong,
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