POST-OFFICE NOTICES.
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Brazil
Bolivia, Ecuador, Chili, Peru...
Argentine Confederation, Buenos Ayres, Paraguay.}
Uruguay....
Newspapers (not over 4 oz.). Books, &c., per 4 oz..
Pax Half ÕUNCH.
Hongkong Stampe U.S. Stamp
cents.
cents.
8
15
8
17
8
23
2
6
10
Any articles found enclosed in Newspapers or Book Packets (as silk scarves, jewellery, &c.) will be detained.
Correspondence can now be forwarded in closed Mails to the United Kingdom via San Francisco at the following rates:-
Letters.... Registration
Newspapers....
12 cents per oz.
8 cents.
4 cents.
Books and Patterns, 1 oz.......
2 cents.
2 oz...
4 cents.
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every
4 oz...
8 cents.
The Mails close at 2.30 P.M., usually on the 1st and 15th of each month. Registry cannot be effected after 2 P.M.
The average time of transit to London by this route is 50 days. The correspondence must be specially addressed Via San Francisco. If insufficiently paid it will be sent viâ Suez.
Bankers and the Mercantile community are requested 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. It is particularly requested that correspondence for Mauila, Bangkok, the Coast, the U.S. Packet, &c., be not sent mixed up with that for the British or French Packet.
Many boxes of letters are received at the Post-office not sealed, that is to say, the box is fastened with sealing wax, but there is no impression of a seal.
The attention of boxholders is called to the necessity of carefully sealing such boxes with some recognisable seal, and of sending a chit-book or receipt with them. The omission of the latter precaution leaves a doubt as to whether the contents of the box ever reached the Post-office; the omission of the former, as to whether part of them might not have been abstracted for the sake of the Postage Stamps.
It is not generally possible to count the letters sent in sealed boxes (except where there are only three or four) and therefore the Post-office receipt to such an entry as, "47 for London, 15 for Cleutta, 3 for Penang, 5 for Singapore," must be taken to mean no more than what is stated, viz., that one box was duly received.
Most countries to which Hongkong forwards Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.
1.-No Letter or Packet, whether to be registered or unregistered, can be received for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is liable to Customs duties.
2. This regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no value,
3.-The limits of weight allowed are as follows:-
Books and Papers.
'To British Offices.........5 fb. To the Continent, &c....2 lb.
Patterns.
5 b. if without intrinsic value. 8 oz.
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