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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1870.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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ers of Tenements assessed to the Police, Lighting, Water and Fire Brigade Rates, are that the Rates are payable in advance during and within the month of April, for the and Quarter of the

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year 1870.

attention of Rate Payers is drawn to the Second Clause of Ordinance No. 9 of 1869, which ities that in Default in the Payment of Rates, such arrears may be sued for by the Colonial in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and a Certificate under the hand of the Treasurer, th the particulars of the sums due for Rates and then outstanding shall be "Prima facie of the Facts certified by the Treasurer.

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Payers are therefore informed that all Rates in arrear after the 30th April, 1870, will be der in accordance with the Provisions of the Clause and Ordinance specified above.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 7th April, 1870.

NOTICE.

FREDÁ. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

Any persons who have in their possession old Registration Tickets belonging to Servants who are lett or have been dismissed, are requested to send the same to this Office, with any remarks, on

te papers, they may wish to have recorded.

I would much tend to the more satisfactory working of the Registration of Domestic Servants, stration Tickets were in every case kept completely out of the possession of the Servants themselves. the dismissal of a Servant his Ticket should be sent to this Office, unless it can be handed at once be as new Employer, and should on no account be confided to his own custody.

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 28th May, 1869.

NOTICE.

· ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.

Consignees and Masters of Ships are hereby informed that, after, the 15th Proximo, the olary, North of which Vessels shall not anchor, is as follows:-

Kellet's Island bearing E. by S. & S.

All Ships to be properly moored with 35 fathoms Chain (East and West).

The passage between the North Boundary of Men-of-War anchorage and the Kowloon Peninsula to be kept clear.

Steamers and Vessels not having definite employment will still remain on the North side.

Harbor Master's Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1869.

H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,

Harbor Master, &e.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

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

e United States' Packets via San Francisco, will be as follows, viz:-

For a packet not exceeding 1 ounce in weight,

For a packet above 1 ounce not exceeding 2 ounces,

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

and eight cents for every additional four ounces.

.2 cents.

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These rates apply to Printed Circulars, Price Lists, Market Reports, and all printed papers other Newspapers, 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 Alexandria, may be forwarded by the British Mail Packets Postage of six cents for a packet nct exceeding four ounces in weight, with six cents additional very four ounces in excess, which must be paid in advance.

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

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.