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GENERAL RATES OF PASSAGE.

General rates of passage. Steam communication for passengers, goods and parcels between Hongkong and Singapore, Penang, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta, also vid Egypt, Malta, and England, by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers.

From Hongkong to

Payment to be made in Spanish dollars. For, extra accommodation, an ad- ditional sum will be charged. Passengers to England, desirous of remaining a mouth in Egypt, or at any of the ports en route, at which the Company's Steamers touch, will be allowed to proceed in the following steamers without additional payment, provided they give notice of their intention at the time of engaging their passage.

The above rates include stewards' fees, and table, wines, &c., &c., for cabin passengers, with 3 cwt. of personal baggage. For servants, and 2d class passengers, provisions without wines, and 1 cwt. of baggage. Bedding, linen, and all requisite furniture, are provided at the Company's expense, together with the attendance of experienced male and female servants. The expense of transit through Egypt is also included in the passage money, with the ex- ception of wines, spirits, beer, soda water, hotel expenses, and extra haggage, all of which will be charged for separately by the Egyptian Transit Company.

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