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RATES OF POSTAGE.

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Prepayment of Postage is compulsory on Correspondence sent by Private Ships, i.e., in Mails conveyed by all Vessels, except the British, French, United States, and Indian Mail Packets, at the following rates:-

(Correspondence sent to the Straits and British India, by Private Ships,

cannot be prepaid.)

FOR A LETTER

NEWSPAPER OR PRICE CURRENT,

Under oz. Under 1 os. Under 2 oz. Under 3 os. Under 4 oz. Under 5 os.

Every additional

Back.

1 oz.

venta.

8

cents. 16

cents. 32

cents. 48

centa. 64

cents. 16

Letters intended to be sent by Private Ship, must be addressed by “Private Ship ;" and if by a particular ship, the name of the Ship must be added.

centa. 80

cents.

2

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Letters containing coin posted in the United Kingdom addressed to Hongkong, or posted in Hongkong addressed to the United Kingdom, on which the Fee for Registration has not been paid, will be compulsory registered and charged on delivery with a double Registra- tion Fee; and further, any Letters having the word "Registered" written upon them which may be posted without Registration, will be forwarded, charged in like manner with a double Registration Fee.

In the event of a Letter being supposed to contain coin and being consequently thus treated, and proof being afterwards afforded that the Letter did not contain coin, the amount charged will be refunded.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General. General Post Office, Hongkong, 24th October, 1867.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Correspondence intended to be forwarded to the United Kingdom in the mails by the French Packets, may be posted at the British Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and that the same will be forwarded in closed Mails to London,

The rates of postage on such Correspondence, which must be paid in the Poetage Stamps of this Colony, are the same as those which govern the Correspondence forwarded in the mails by the British Contract Packets.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 27th November, 1867.

CIRCULAR.

The undersigned solicits the Bankers and Mercantile community to post all Letters, &c., as early as practicable, especially when sent in large numbers, as facility is given to the Post Office in the discharge of its duties, and greater security afforded to the public by such a course; whereas great inconvenience, and frequently confusion, occurs, through the whole of the correspondence from many of the large Firms being sent to the Post Office at the last moment before closing the mails for Europe, by both the English and French Packets.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General.

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