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PREFACE.

CONSIDERABLE efforts, which have fortunately not been unsuccessful, enable the Publisher of the "Chronicle and Directory for 1870," to place the work in the hands

of Subscribers at an earlier date than has before been attained.

It is hoped that the pains that have been taken to secure accurate information, up to the latest dates, will render the present edition of the work fully up to the standard which its reputation will lead Subscribers to expect. It is desirable to noticə

that the news of the United States conventions with China having been ratified at

Pekin, on the 23rd October, arrived too late to enable the fact to be noted in the

portion of the Directory where the text is given. The British convention is not inserted, as it is anticipated that there will in all probabilitty be some alterations before it becomes ratified.

The local information, in the form of Time, Post Office, and Mail Tables, has been

the subject of special attention, and is given as fully and in as convenient a form as possible.

The "Chronicle and Directory "is again published in two forms, the one being the Directory, properly so called, at the price of $3, and the other being the complete volume, with the records now of eight years, at the price of $5, which it is confidently expected will sustain its reputation of embodying such valuable information as to make it a complete nade mecum in Public, Mercantile, and General Offices.

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The Daily Press Office,

Hongkong, 10th January, 1870.

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