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General Post-Office. Hongkong.
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE POSTMASTER GENERAI, ON THE NOVEMBER, 1878.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchased at the General Post-Office, and all the British Postal Agencies in China and Japan. The Stamps represent the following
amounts in value:
Two cents......
Four cents...
.One Penny. ...........Two Pence.
Six cents....
Three Pence.
Eight cents.......
.Four Pence.
Twelve cents.
Six Pence.
Eighteen cents.......Nine Pence. Twenty-four cents...One Shilling. Thirty-cents.....
Fifteen Fence.
Forth-eight cents...Two Shillings. Ninety-six cents..... Four Shillings.
It must be understood that the Postage Labels of this Colony are alone available for the payment of postage on correspondence posted at the General Post-Cce in Hongkong, or the Agencies thereof at Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Toochow-foo, Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Hiogo, Nagasaki, and Yokohama.
They may be used on correspondence to places to which the prepayment of postage is either compulsory or optional; no credit will be given to these Stamps on correspond- ence addressed to places to which the postage cannot be prepaid in Hongkong.
All correspondence for places to which prepayment is compulsory must be prepaid in Hongkong Postage Stamps.
The latest time for posting latters by the English Mail Packet is 11 a.m.; by the French 11 A.M., and by the American, 2.30 P.M. on the day of sailing.
All letters posted by the English Mail Packet between 10 and 11 A.M. on the day of sailing are chargeable in addition to the usual postage with a late fee of 18 cents.
Late Letters (but Letters only) addressed to the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, or to Singapore, may be posted on board the English Packet from 11.80 A.M. to the time of sailing, on payment of a Late Fee of 48 cents each in addition to the postage.
Letters, &c., are received for registration up to 10 A.M, on the day of departure of each Packet with homeward Mails.
Letters can be posted on board the American Packet from 2.80 to 2.50 P.M. on payment of a Late Fee of 12 cents in addition to the Postage.
The Prepayment of the Postage to all places by the American route is compulsory. Correspondence insufficiently prepaid will be forwarded by the English Packets.
Correspondence "ddressed to Yokohama, and the United States by American Packet, must be superscribed per "
," and that addressed to the United
Kingdom must be superscribed sĩ việc San Franciseo.”
Sealed Boxes containing the correspondence of Box Holders will be received at the window set apart for the purpose on the East side of the Building.
Insufficiently Stamped Letters addressed to the United Kingdom will be sent on, charged with a fine of One Shilling in addition to the Postage.
Letters posted after 10 A.M. on the day of the sailing of the English Packet will not be forwarded unless the Late Fee as well as the postage is prepaid.
Postage Stamps should be placed on the upper right hand corner of the correspon- dence, except in cases where they may be used in payment of Late Fees, when the Stamp or Stamps representing Late Fee or Registration Fees should be placed on the lower left hand corner.
All transactions in fractional parts of a Dollar will be conducted in the Coins pre- scribed by Ordinance No. 1, 1864, and the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, and no other Coins but those therein specified will either be received or given in change as fractional parts of a Dollar.
Payment for Postage Stamps must be made in the Current Dollars of the Colony or Bank Notes.
Money Orders on any of the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom are granted until 6 P.M. on the day prior to the departure of each packet.
Money orders between Hongkong and the United Kingdom and between Hongkong and Shanghai, and Hongkong and Yokohama, are granted and paid daily between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Sundays and authorized holidays excepted).
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