Directory_and_Chronicle_1845 — Page 426

LIST OF THE RATES OF POSTAGE BETWEEN HONGKONG

And foreign COUNTRIÉS, &c. VIA “SOUTHAMPTON.”

* The British rate of 18. 5d. is chargeable on a letter not exceeding a half ounce in weight, and so on according to the scale for charging British rates of postage, but the foreign rate of bd. is chargeable on a letter under one quarter ounce in weight, and an additional rate of five must be charged for each one quarter oz.

+ This rate comprises the British postage of 1s. 8d., and the Belgian postage of 4d. The latter increases by the one quarter oz. as in the case of French Letters. Letters and newspapers via Marseilles, cannot be prepaid in Hongkong.

The intercolonial correspondence, by the steamers, for the present, conveyed free.