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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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[Money orders cannot be issued or cashed on mail mornings, when closing mails for Europe, until noon.]

120-Money Orders are issued at Hongkong and Shanghai at current rates of exchange on the following countries and places:—

Canada

China Ports (Hoihow, Can-

ton. Swatów, Amoy, Foo- chow, Ningpo, Hankow, and Shanghai). Ceylon.

Haval (Sandwich Islands). British India (including Burmah and the Agen-

BRITISH COLONIES :— Bermuda

British Guiana.

Britis Honduras.

Cyprus.

Mirland Islanda.

Gibraltar.

Malta

Sewfoundland.

Western Aust ralia.

APRICA.

Cape Colony, (including

Barutoland and British

Bechuanaland).

Gambia

Gold Coast.

Lagos.

Rhodesia (including Ma- shonaland, Matabele-

land, and Northern Zam- bena).

Mauritius.

British East Africa Pro- tectorate (Mombasa and Lamu).

Natal (including Zulu-

land).

*. Helena

Seychelles.

Sierra Leone,

Zanzibar Protectorate.

cies of the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf.

Japan Ports (Nagasaki, Ko- be, Osaka, Kioto, Yoko- hama, Tokio, Akamagase- ki(Shimonoseki)Aomori,

Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Kanazawa, Kumamoto,

Ta

Nagano,Nagoya, Niigata, Sapporo, Sendai, dotsu, and Utsunomiya). New South Wales. New Zealand. British North

Borneo

(Sandakan, Kudat and Labuan). Queensland.

Drawn through London Office.

WEST INDINE.

Antigua.

Bahamas.

Barbadoes.

Dominica

Grenada. Jamaica. Montserrat. Nevis, St. Kitta. St. Lucia

St. Vincent.

Tobago.

Trinidad.

Turks' Islands.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES:-

Austria.

Belgium. Bosnia

Bulgaria.

Cameroons and Togo. Chili.

Congo Free State (Banana,

Boma and Matadi). Denmark (including Ice- land and Faroe Islands). Danish West Indies. Dutch East Indies. Egypt.

France, with Algeria.

German Empire.

German East African Pro-

tectorate. Herzegovina. Holland. Hungary.

Italy (with offices on the Red Sea and at Tripoli). Luxemburg,

New Guinea (German Pro-

tectorate of).

Norway.

Orange Free States.

Portugal (including Ma- deira and the Azores).

Roumania

Salvador.

Servia.

Sweden.

Switzerland.

South African Republic

(Transvaal).

Siam (Bangkok and Chi-

engmai only),

South Australia.

Straits Settlements (Singa. pore, Penang, Malacca). Tasmania.

United Kingdom,

Victoria.

United States of America.

Panama.

Salonica.

Smyrna Tangier.

ASIA MINOR AND LEVANE. Candia.

Canea (Khania, La Canée). Chios (Khios).

Dardanelles. Dédé-Agatch (Déde-

Aghadj).

Durazzo,

Gallipoli

Ineboli

Jaffa.

Janina.

Jerusalem.

Kaifa (Caiffa).

Kavala (Cavalla)

Kerassonde (Kéressoun).

Lagos (Turkey)

Mitylene.

Tunis. Uruguay.

Prevess.

Retimo.

FOREIGN CITIES AND

TOWNS :-

Rhodes.

Samsoun.

Adrianople. Beyrout. Constantinople.

[dos)

Santi Quaranta (Seraa-

Trepizond (Traperunt). Valona.

Vathy-Samoa

Office are paid less

121.-Orders on the Countries drawn through the London Post the following discount, for which the remitter should allow. All such Orders must be apressed in British currency :--

For sums not exceeding £2...

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exceeding £2 but not exceeding £6.......

£6

£10....

...3d. ....6d. .9d.

122.-The commission charged is as follows (according to the currency the Order is drawn in):-

(a.) Upon the Australian Colonies for sums not exceeding :-£1, 12 cts.; £2, 24 cts.; £3, 36 cts.; £4, 48 cts.; £5, 60 cts.; £6, 72 cts.; £7, 84 cta. ; £8, 96 cts.; £9, $1.08; £10, $1.20. (b.) On the United Kingdom and on Countries drawn through London :- £1,8 cents; £2, 16 cents; £3, 24 cents; £4, 32 cents; £5, 40 cents; £6, 48 cents; £7, 56 cents; £8, 64 cents; £9, 72 cents; £10, 80 cents.

(c) On other places:-Up to $10, or 20 rupees, 20 cts.; $25, or 50 rupees, 40 cts.;

or 70 rupees, 60 cts.; 850, or 100 rupees, 80 cts.; 150 rupees, $1.00.

123.-No Order must exceed £10 or $50 (unless drawn on India, when 150 Rupees is the limit).

IMPERIAL POSTAL NOTES.

124.-Postal Notes of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople, can be obtained at Hongkong or at any British Post Office in China at prices, which include commission, and which vary with the rate of exchange :-

1/-, 1/6, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-

The prices are published from time to time in the Government Gazette and can be obtained on application.

with it.

125.- The purchaser of any Postal Note must fill in the payee's name before parting He may also fill in the name of the Office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the note is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople. Any Postal Note may be crossed to a Bank

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