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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1876.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
With regard to a Notice issued last year to the effect that Correspondence sent from this Colony by the American Mails would not be forwarded to places beyond the United States unless properly prepaid with American as well as Hongkong Stamps, it is now notified that arrangements have been inade to sell American Stamps at this Office, for the convenience of those who may wish to post by the Pacific Route to Canada, the West Indies, and other places named below.
For the present no large quantities of these Stamps can be supplied, nor is it undertaken that every denomination can be kept in hand.
The charge for Registry is 8 cents in Hongkong Stamps, and 10 cents in U.S. Stamps to those places only the names of which are printed in Italics. To all the other places named correspondence cannot be Registered through, but only to San Francisco (8 cents.)
The following are the charges on correspondence thus sent;-
Canada, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, Vancouver's Island, Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence,
Aspinwall, Bermuda, Bogota, Carthagena, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Fiji, Greenland, Jamaica, New Granada, Nicaragua, Panama, West Indies,
Hawaii, Newfoundland,
Guatemala, Mexico, Salvador, Venezuela,..
Belize, Greytown, Guiana, Honduras, Martinique, Santa
Martha, Turk's Island,
Brazil,..
Bolivia, Ecuador, Chili, Peru,
Argentine Confederation, Buenos Ayres, Paraguay, Uruguay,
Newspapers (not over 4 oz.),...
Books, &c., per 4 OZ.,
Per half ounce.
Hongkong Stamps
cents.
U.S. Stamps cents.
3
10
8
5
6
00 00
00 00 00 26
10
13
15
8
17
8
23
4
10
Any articles found enclosed in Newspapers or Book Packets (as silk scarves, jewellery, &c.) will be detained.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 15th March, 1876.
No. 51.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon of the 20th instant, for the erection of a Powder Magazine at Stone Cutters' Island.
The Specification and Plans can be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.
The Government will not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1876.
"THE MARRIAGE ORDINANCE, 1875."
[SECTION VII.]
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary,
I hereby give Notice, that in accordance with Section VI of the above Ordinance, Ilis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to license the following places for the Celebration of Marriages, viz. :-
St. John's Cathedral, Victoria.
St. Peter's Church, Praya West.
St. Stephen's Church, Tai-ping Shán.
Union Church, Staunton Street.
Berlin Foundling House Chapel "Bethesda," High Street. Basel Mission Chapel, Third Street, Sai Ying-pún.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wellington Street. The Church of St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis Street.
Registrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1876.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Registrar General
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