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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1887.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 497.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Wednesday, the 7th December, 1887, for repairing and painting the post and rail fence on the North and East sides of the Military Parade Ground.

For form of tender apply at this Office.

For specification and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1887.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 498.

The following is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1887.

PARCEL POST.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Parcels may now be forwarded to the places named below in addition to the places named in the General Table of Parcel Post Rates published on July 1st, to which this notice is supplementary The Supplementary Table published on July 26th is cancelled.

BRITISH PACKET. viâ London,

GERMAN PACKET. Direct.

PROHIBITED CONTENTS..

0 to 2 tb.

2 to 6 lb. 6 to 11 lb.

0 to 11 b.

$ c.

C.

c.

Algeria,

Corsica,

..(c)

1.20

· 1.70

:

Congo Free State,

•(b)

1.10

1.30

1:60

France,

.(b)

1.00

1.50

1.20

Italy, (viâ France), ................................(c)

1.10

1.60

Italy, (via Germany), .........(e)

1.40

1.80

Smyrna,

...........(α)

0.60

1.00

1.50

Tunis,.

.........(c)

1.20

1.80

Coins, arms, ammunition, me- dicines, plants, vines, gold, silver, jewellery, lace.

Letters.

Letters, medicines, coius, to

bacco, vines, gold, silver, jewellery, lace..

Letters, tobacco, plants, arms, chemical compounds, lint.

Letters, materials for gunpow der, plants, arms, tobacco.

Arms, ammunition, tobacco, plants, vines, gold, silver, jewellery, lace.

Bahamas Is.,

.(a)

$0.50 per tb. up to 11 lb.

Natal,

.(a)

$0.70 per b. up to 7 H.

......

Tangier,..

.....(a)

$0.50 per b. up to 11 lb.

Letters, gold or silver, ostrich

feathers.

Arms, munitions of war,

tobacco, opium-pipes.

LIMITS OF SIZE.-(a.) 3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6 ft. in length and girth combined.

(b.) 2 ft. in any direction.

(c.) 2 ft. long, or 4 ft. in length and girth combined.

Alfred Lister,

Postmaster General.

GENERAL POST OFFICE,

HONGKONG, November 14th, 1887.