MONEY ORDERS.
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that such letters may be sent, but they can be paid only as far as Ceylon, and should be marked Paid to Galle only. The Postage to Ceylon must be prepaid, but they will go on from Galle as unpaid.
As compared with waiting for the next P. & O. steamer, it is stated that a letter thus sent to Calcutta would gain from 3 to 5 days, to Madras, from 6 to 8 days, according to the season; but that letters for Bombay and Western India would gain no time by the above arrangement.
During the N.E. Monsoon, the Charterers and Agents of sailing ships for Manila, Bangkok, Saigon, and Singapore, are requested to give notice to this Office of the departures of such ships.
No correspondence will be forwarded by sailing vessel but such as is specially so directed.
Correspondence for New Zealand may now be forwarded via Torres Straits when specially directed for that route, otherwise it will be sent by way of Galle.
MONEY ORDERS.
1.- Money Orders on the United Kinglom are issued at Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama. Shanghai and Yokohama also issue on Hongkong and vice versa.
2.—Small sums may be remitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Stamps.
3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to residents at the smaller Ports in this way. An application for an order is filled up, and is enclosed with a stamped, directed, and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at the nearest issuing office. The application must be accompanied with the full amount (including commission) in cheque, postage stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a little margin should be left for variations of exchange. The Postmaster issues the order, sends it on in the envelope, and returns the change, if any, by first opportunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it were to be registered, as it always should be. Care should be taken to send these applications in time, as the Money Order Offices close some hours before the departures of the mails.
4.-No order must exceed £10, or include any fraction of a penny. Orders will be drawn at the current rate of the day† and paid at the rate of the day when the advice arrived.
The commission is as follows:- Orders on the United Kingdom.
Up to
£2
18 cents.
£5
86
""
""
£7
54
"
"
£10
72
"
19
Up to
Local Money Orders.
$25
15 cents.
50
39
80
""
5.-Lists of Money Order Offices in the United King'om may be consulted at. Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yokohama,
6-Names must be given in full (except when there is more than one Christian name) but the name of the Payee need not be given if the order be crossed (as cheques are crossed). It can then be paid only through a Bank, and may afterwards be specially crossed to any Bank.
7.- No order can be paid till the Payee have signed it in the proper place. An order can be transferred to another office on payment of an additional commission. In case of loss of an order, necessity for stopping payment, or the like, application should be made to the nearest Money Order Office for instructions.
8.- If the order be not presented within six months an additional commission will be charged; if not within twelve months, the money will be forfeited. When the order is once paid no further claim can be entertained,
9.-No order can be paid until the a Ivice relative to it has been received.
• Made out on a printed form which is supplied gratis.
† Orders on Shanghai are drawn at 5 per cent, premium in all ca es.
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