No. 156.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH AUGUST, 1876.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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Notice is hereby given, that Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Adolph André, Esquire, to be Acting Consul General for Austria.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Most countries to which this Office- forwards Correspondence having joined the General Postal Union or being probably about to do so, it is necessary that the following rules be strictly observed.
1. No Letter or Packet, whether to be registered or unregistered, can be received for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything that, as a general rule, is liable to Customs duties.
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity sent be so small as to make the sample of no value.
3. The limits of weight allowed are as follows:-
To British Offices,.......
To the Continent, &c.,
Books and Papers.
5 lb.
2 tb.
Patterns.
5 lb. if without intrinsic value. 8 07.
4. The following articles cannot be sent by Post at all: Glass, Liquids, Gunpowder, Matches, Candles, Soap, Indigo, Dye-stuffs, or whatever is dangerous to the Mails, or offensive or injurious to persons dealing with them.
PARCELS. The public is reminded that, in China and Japan, there is no such thing as Parcel Post. Much trouble and disappointment is caused by persistent attempts to send small valuable trifles through the Post. Fans, Curios, Articles of Dress, Fancy Work, and similar presents are continually being refused, the senders having often spent more in Postage than would have paid the freight by steamer. No refund can be made on such parcels of the value of Stamps obliterated before the nature of the contents was discovered.
PATTERNS. Some difficulty is experienced in obtaining a general understanding of what is a Pattern. It is a bonâ fide sample of goods which the sender has for sale, or of goods which he wishes to order. It is to consist of the smallest possible quantity compatible with shewing what the goods are, and must have no intrinsic value.
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1876.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Letters.
Privates in H.M. Army or Navy, Non-commissioned Officers,* Army Schoolmasters (not super- intending or First Class) or Schoolmistresses, may now, under the usual Regulations, send half-ounce Letters to the United Kingdom viâ Brindisi or Marseilles for Threepence (6 cents) each instead of Fourpence as before, or for one penny ( 2 cents) viâ Southampton. But if these letters exceed half an ounce in weight, they will be charged as ordinary Correspondence.
It seems to be but imperfectly understood that Hongkong Postage Stamps will prepay this class of Correspondence exactly the same as Imperial Stamps.
Officers and men of H.M. Fleet alone have the privilege of using British Postage Stamps, whether of the value of one penny, or of higher values.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1876.
* But not Warrant Officers, viz., Assistant Engineer, Gunner, Boatswain, or Carpenter,
ALFRED LISTER,
Postmaster General.
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