DI
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Dublished by Authority.
No. 25.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH JUNE, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 115.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., is pleased to direct that the reduced Rates of Postage indicated below take effect from the 19th instant.
Those rates which have been reduced are printed in black figures. No reduction is made by the French Packets.
A complete Table, embodying these alterations, will shortly be issued.
Letters,
pee oz.
Registration, per Letter.
Newspapers, each, not exceeding
Books and Patterns, per
4 oz.
4 oz.
Via Brindisi.
cents.
cents.
cents.
cents.
United Kingdom,
28
4
12
United States, British N. America, Canary & Madeira Islands,
W. Africa, Falkland and Cape Verd. Islands, Bermuda,
32
16
6
18
381
16
6
18
W. Indies, Mexico, Central America & South America, (E. Coast),'
Bolivia, Chili, Ecuador, Peru,
50
*
6
18
62
None.
6
20
* British West Indies, Curaçoa, Honduras, and Brazil only, 16 cents.
Við Southampton.
Portugal and the Azores,
Local.
Between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, in either direction,....... Between any other two of the following places (through a British Office) viz.:-Hongkong, Macao, Ports of China and Japan, Bangkok, Saigon, and the Philippines, by Private Ship,
By Command,
28
16
6
12
Per 2 oz.
20
8
c)
2
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th June, 1876.
4
00
Except Bangkok.
♦
2
J. GARDINER AUSTIN Colonial Secretary,
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