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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1870.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

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thereby notified that henceforward the rates of postage which must be paid in advance, charge- its of printed papers or patterns of light weight sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom

ed States' Packets viâ San Francisco, will be as follows, viz:-

A packet not exceeding 1 ounce in weight,

a packet above 1 ounce not exceeding 2 ounces,

For a packet above 2 ounces not exceeding 4 ounces,.

eight cents for every additional four ounces.

..2 cents.

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rates apply to Printed Circulars, Price Lists, Market Reports, and all printed papers other Newsupers, as well as to Books and Trade Patterns or Samples.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 12th April, 1870.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

it is hereby notified that henceforward Printed papers and patterns posted in Hongkong or in art of China or Japan, addressed to Alcxandria, may be forwarded by the British Mail Packets Postage of six cents for a packet not exceeding four ounces in weight, with six cents additional

ry four ounces in excess, which must be paid in advance.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 12th April, 1870.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

It is hereby notified that His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been d to appoint ROBERT GERVASE ALFORD, Esquire, to be a Valuator under the provisions of The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," provisionally, and until further notice, vice Mr. C.

#4 HORDEN.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1870.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others

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it may concern.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th April, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

Talstance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[ No. 14,] CHINA-YANG-TSZ-KIANG.

FIXED LIGHT ON GUTZLAFF ISLAND.

* Harbour master at Shanghai has given notice, that from the 1st day of November 1869, a light would be exhibited

hthouse recently erected on Gutzlaff island, at the entrance of the Yang-tsz-kiang.

ht is a fixed white light, elevated 270 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a

of 20 miles.

Muminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the third order.

it is desired to attract the attention of passing vessels, a gun or guns will be fired and signals made. bering fogs, guns will be fired in answer to the fog signals of passing vessels.

Holographic Office, Admiralty, London,

1st February 1870,

By Command of their Lordships,

FREDK. J. EVANS,

for Hydrographer.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Indian ocean, No. 748b; Hongkong to Lian-tong gulf, No. 1262; Yang-isz-Kiang entrance, No. 1609; Yang-tsz-Kiang to Naukin, No. 1480; Hieshan islands to Yang-tsz-Kiang, No. 1199; and Pacific

ocean, sheet I., No. 2459; also China Lights List, No. 170; `aud China Pilot, 4th Edition, page 199.