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GENERAL INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS.
For the convenience of Passengers to the East, arrangements have been made by which Outward Passengers can telegraph their safe arrival to their friends at home at the following charges :---
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, or Ceylon............ £o 15 O The Straits, China, or Japan.
Australia
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Notice must be given at the Company's London Office when booking passage, and the charge prepaid.
The Company's Rates of Passage Money include Stewards' Fees and Table, but not Wines, Spirits, or Beer, which can be purchased on board at moderate prices. Bedding, Linen, and all requisite Cabin Furniture are provided in the Steamers at the Company's expense, together with the attendance of experienced male and female Servants.
Passengers are not allowed to take on board Wines, Spirits, or other Liquors for use during the Voyage.
Tickets for Passengers to or from Venice, &c., who make the journey through Egypt by the Railway, are issued by the Agents of the Company on behalf of the Egyptian Government at the following rates, viz. :-
For First-Class Passengers, £3; for Second-Class Passengers, £2; Children above 3 and under 10 years, half fare.
Servants soliciting gratuities will be dismissed from the Company's Service. Each of the Company's Steamers carries a qualified Surgeon.
Half the Passage Money, when the amount exceeds £20, is required to be paid on securing passage, and the balance a fortnight before embarkation.
Passengers not embarking after engaging passage, forfeit the deposit of half the amount of Passage Money.
In case, however, of a Passenger being unavoidably prevented from availing himself of a passage at the period for which it was taken, a transfer of the passage to a subsequent Steamer can be effected, on sufficient notice being given, without forfeiture of any portion of the deposit paid, and accommodation will be allotted as similar as circumstances will permit.
Passengers purchasing their Tickets from the Purser on board the Steamer will be charged ten per cent. additional.
Cheques, Letters of Credit, &c., remitted by post, should be in favour of the "Peninsular_and_Oriental Steam Navigation Company, or Order," and should be crossed with their Bankers' names, viz., “ Williams, Deacon & Co." when forwarded to Leadenhall Street, and “Ransom, Bouveric & Co." when sent to Cockspur Street. Cheques or Drafts on England cannot be accepted in Payment of Passage Money by the Company's Agents at foreign ports.
Passengers to or from Australia, the Straits, China, or Japan, have the privilege of proceeding vid Bombay, staying a week or fortnight there, at their own expense, or they can proceed vid Madras or Calcutta and Bombay, paying their own expenses across India.
No Berth or Cabin is to be occupied by a Passenger without application to the Agent on shore, or to the Purser on board. It is to be understood that a Passenger occupying a Cabin of two or more Berths, on the departure of the Vessel (unless he shall have paid an additional sum for its exclusive occupation), is not to object to the vacant Berth or Berths being filled up at the intermediate Ports, if required.
Passengers will have to defray their own expenses for Hotels, in the event of any detention, and in all cases in which the Company's Ships may be placed in Quarantine, First-Class Passengers will be charged 105, and Second Class Passengers 55 per day for their maintenance on board during the detention of the Ship.
Passengers must comply with the Regulations established on board the Steamers for the general comfort and safety.
For Particulars of the Railway Trains to and from Southampton, see page 20.
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