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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH DECEMBER, 1881.
2. The Hongkong Post Office also issues orders on Shanghai, and vice versâ.
3. The commission charged is as follows:----
Up to £2, or $10, or 20 Rupees
37
£ 5, or $25, or 50
£ 7, or $35, or 70
£10, or $50. or 100
";
150
0.20 cents.
0.40
>>
0.60
0.80
25
$1.00
4. No Order must exceed £10 or $50 (unless drawn on India, when 150 Rupees is the limit) nor will more than two such Orders be issued to the same person, in favour of the same payee, by the same mail. 5. Sums not exceeding $50 may be remitted between the Ports of China by means of Postage stamps, subject to a charge of one per cent for cashing them.
REGULATIONS FOR
LOCAL AND INDIAN PARCEL POST.
1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post at Book Rates between Hongkong and any of the British Post Offices in China, as well as to Japan, Macao, Pakhói, the Straits Settlements, and India. They must not exceed the following dimensions, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep, weigh more than 5lbs., nor be smaller than 3 in. by 2 in. by 2 in. Such parcels may be wholly closed if they bear this special endorsement, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LETTER, but any parcel may be opened by direction of the Posmaster General. In the Case of Parcels for India a declaration of contents and value is required, a printed form for which is supplied gratis. The Registration of Parcels for India is compulsory.
2. The following cannot be transmitted: Parcels insufficiently packed or protected, or liable to be crushed (as bandboxes, &c.) Opium, Glass, Liquids, Explosive substances, Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffs, Ice, Meat, Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or likely to become offensive or injurious in transit.
3. Parcels are as a general rule forwarded by Private Ship, not by Contract Mail Packet. To India they are forwarded by the P. & O. and Indian Mail Packets only. No responsibility is accepted with regard to any parcel, unless Registered, and then only to the amount of $10.
4. The public are cautioned not to confound these facilities with a Parcel Post to Europe, which does not exist.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 392.
The following Notice is published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th November, 1881.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary,
NOTICE.
Under the provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, notice is hereby given that a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace will be held at the Police Magistrates' Court, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the Third day of January, 1882, and thereafter, on the first Tuesday of every month, for the purpose of considering applications for granting or transferring Spirit Licences during the year 1882.
Such applications to be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Court, at least ten days before each of the Sessions now notified.
FREDERICK STEWART, Police Magistrate.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 11th November, 1881.
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