THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1871.
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RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES of the United States' Mail Packets during 1870, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of the Mails between Hongkong and San Francisco.
ARRIVALS.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyaye.
Jinan, Cauna,
America,
Japan,
Great Republic,
(bina,
Japan,
America,
tinat Republic,
China,
Japan,
America,
Name of Packet.
Date of Arrival at Hongkong.
Date of Departure
· from San Francisco.
1869.
January
7 December
1
February
41870, January
1
March
5 February
1
April May
5 March
1
6 April
1
June
1
30
July August
3 June
2 July
September
3 August
1
October November December
3 September
1
4 October
1
November
1
888888833333333
35
36
36
34
35
35
Total,
414
Japan, China,
America,
Japan,
Great Republic,
China,
Japan,
America,
Great Republic,
China,
Japan, America,
Name of Packet.
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 3414.
DEPARTURES.
Date of Departure from Ilongkong.
January February March
April May
Date of Arrival at San Francisco.
Number of Days occupied in the Voyage.
1870.
1870.
12
12
February March
16
36
19
36
12 April
18
33
12 May
13
R
32
12
June
14
34
June
11 July
13
23
July
12 August
12
32
August
12 | September
12
32
September
12 October
16
35
October
12
November
17
37
November December
12
December
20
39
12
1871, January
17
37
Total,.
416
Average Number of Days occupied in each Voyage, 3414.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1871.
No. 51.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice from the Honorable the Registrar General, is published for general information.
By Command,
J. GAIDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1871.
NOTICE.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor in Council having been pleased to direct that the Census for 1871 should be taken on the 2nd proximo, blank Schedules will be served on all Occupiers of the whole or portions of Houses in Hongkong and its Dependencies.
If any Occupier be overlooked in the distribution of Schedules, or if a Schedule be accidentally mislaid or destroyed, the deficiency can be supplied on application at the Registrar General's Office.
Where one Schedule is insufficient, others may be obtained in the same way, or from the distributing Officer.
This Notice refers only to the British and Foreign Population.
These Returns are required to complete the decennial Census which will be taken on April 2nd throughout the Queen's Dominions.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1871.
CECIL C. SMITH, Registrar General.
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