No. 31.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH FEBRUARY, 1871.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st January, 1871, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,
262,673
87,558
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,
558,933
200,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,.
189,300
100,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.
1,546,180
600,000
TOTAL,.....
2,557,086
987,558
No. 35.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Post Office Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1871.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified that, in future, Patterns or Samples of Merchandize of no intrinsic value may be sent from Hongkong, or from any of the British Post Office Agencies in China and Japan, to in and the Balearic and the Canary Islands, viâ Southampton, subject to the following Regulations.
1st. The postage must be prepaid.
2nd. There must be no writing, or printing, in addition to the address of the person for whom the packet is intended, and the address of the sender, other than a manufacturer's or trade mark and numbers, and the prices of the articles.
3. The Patterns or Samples must be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be easy of ex- amination. Samples, however, of seeds, drugs, and so forth, which cannot be sent in open covers, may be inclosed in bags of linen, paper, or other material, tied at the neck with a string, so that the Officers of the Post Office may be able to satisfy themselves as to the
nature of the contents..
4th. No Packet of Patterns must exceed two feet, British, in length, or one foot, British, in
width or depth..
No article likely to injure the contents of the mail bags, or the person of any Officer of the Post office, may be sent through the Post as a pattern.
If either of the foregoing rules be infringed, the packet will not be forwarded.
The rates of postage chargeable will be as follows.
Nut excredling
Above 2 oz. and not exceeding 4.02.
FOR A PACKET
Above 4 oz. and not exceeding
cents.
8 oz.
cents.
Above 8 oz. and not exceeding 12 oz.
Above 12 oz. and not exceeding 1 lb.
cents.
16
32
48
cents.
64
General Post Office, Hongkong, 16th February, 1871.
Every additional 4 ounces.
cents.
16
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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