RATES OF POSTAGE.
393
Rates of Postage (Stated in dollars and cents.) Chargeable in Hongkong,
upon Letters, Newspapers, Prices Current, and Books
forwarded per French Packet Steamers.
DESTINATION.
* United Kingdom,
• United States of America (through England)
France or Algeris,..
Spain,
Portugal,
Baden,
Luxemburg..
The Netherlands,
Belgium,
FOR A LETTER.
Every
* FOR A Book
PACKET.
· For each
Price Current.
∞ Newspaper, or
Under
GUNCLE,
Under 8
addi-
tional
etx,| cts.] oz. jeta.
61
8-1
250 $ 22
| 32
142
ོ་ཚའི
ets.
"tx,ets,
32
16
18
22 23
32
48
36 54
20 40 60
WWJKNO
Erery
addition-
ul 8 oz.
• Regis- TRATION FER.
Cents.
12
24
12‡
16
32
164
8 24
16
Cannot
Cannot be paid.
D.ble letter rate
be paid.
72
18
Do
20
Do.
Do. Do.
Cannot be regd. Double rate.
20 40 60 80
20
Du.
Do.
Rhenish Prussia,
Bavaria..
Wurteinburg,
German States; viz.: Hohenzollern, Birken- feld, Hesse Homburg, Lippe Detmold, Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, Reuss, Nus- sau, Saxe Coburg Gotha, Saxe Meinin- gen-Hildburghausen, Hesse Electoral, Hesse Darmstadt, Saxe Weimar-Eise. nach. Frankfort-on-the- Maine, Hum- burgh, Bremen, and Lubeck,.. Switzerland,
Italy.
Prussia (the Rhenish Provinces excepted),...]
Hanover,.
Saxony.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin,.
Mecklenburg Strelitz,
Brunswick,..
Oldenburg (the principality of Birkenfeld
excepted),.
Anhalt,
Austrian Dominions and Belgrade,
Denmark,
Southern Italy.
* Servin (Belgrade excepted),
Moldavia,
• Montenegro,
Wallachia,
Turkey in Europe (the places at which France
24
26
26
48
2
96
2
D.ble letter rato
Do.
Do.
Do.
58
52 78 1.04 | | 28
Do.
Do.
Do.
品
78 1.04
26 Do.
Do.
Do.
32
38
Do.
Do.
D.
maintains Post-Offices excepted) cia
Austria,
38 76 1.14 1.52
Sweden,
Norway,
Poland,
Russia,
• Aden and Malta,
• New Caledonia,
:00
14
28
18
36 5-1
• Suez.
* Alexandria,
Ceylon, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras,.
Pondicherry and Saigon,.
24
24
Singapore and Penang,
* Australian Colonies (ría Galley,
Shanghai,.
Yokohama,
24
14
14
GREE 382**
28
18
48
48
28
28
16
18
28 28
NNNNNNNNNN
6
Letter Rate,
Cannot be regd.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
12
! 12
12
Cannot be paid. Cannot be regd.
12 | 12 Letter Rate.
12 12
Do.
Cannot be regd.
Do.
Do.
The postage upon Letters for all the places marked * must be paid in advance, Letters for the other Countries speci- fled may either be paid in advance or forwarded unpaid at the option of the sender.
Book Packets and Packets of Patterns addressed to the United Kingdom. if posted unpaid, will be charged with double the amount of Book Postage, if insufficiently prepaid they will be charged with the difficient postage and 8 cents additional as a fine.
For every additional † lb.
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