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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2nd JULY, 1870.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

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is hereby notified for general information that, henceforward the rates of Postage, which must advance, chargeable upon Book and Pattern Packets posted at Hongkong, or at any of the Postal Agencies in China and Japan, to be forwarded by the British Contract Mail Packets to tralian Colonies and New Zealand, will be as follows, viz.:—-

For a Packet not exceeding 1 ounce in weight,..

$1

2 cents.

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above 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces, above 2 ouucês and not exceeding 4 ounces, above 4 ounces and not exceeding 8 ounces, ......16 on adding 8 cents for every additional 4 ounces or fraction thereof.

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eneral Post Office, Hongkong, 16th June, 1870.

NOTICE.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

To Consignees, Masters and others in charge of Merchant Vessels.

!. -On or before the 1st June proximo, all Ships, with the following exceptions, shall be moved

the North side of the Harbor, mooring them properly with 45 fathoms on each Chain, the.

lying in an E.N.E. and W.S.W. direction from each other.

The Southern line of this anchorage is the North extremity of Hongkong shut in with the xtremity of the Kowloong Peninsula, bearing E, by S.; the Top Gallant Masts and Yards are Deck and Flying Jib-boom in; a spare Anchor should be ready for letting go, and the Hawse

-Vessels discharging or taking in Cargo, and Hulks and Receiving Ships may, with permission, the South shore. Not-The Masters of Ships taking advantage of article 3, and those whose Vessels lie alongside

and Jetties, are to understand that they do so at their own risk.

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Harbor Master's Office, Hongkong, 16th May, 1870.

NOTICE.

II. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,

Harbor Master, Sv.

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

e papers, they may wish to have recorded.

It 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. dismissal of a Servant his Ticket should be sent to this Office, unless it can be handed at once new Employer, and should on no account be confided to his own custody.

Histrar General's Office, Hongkong, 28th May, 1869,

ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General,

List of DEAD LETTERS which have been returned from the General Post Office, in London, and other places the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them application.

s, Gloucester Terrace, South Gloucester Street, Dublin,

Nicolas. Hongkong,

kamizidge House, Kingsland, London,

Camera), El Collado, Llanes, Spain,

4. Charles Street, Stepney, London,

M., Construtinople,

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Jong, G. de, Barque Ocran, Hongkong,

Kellar, G. F., P. & 0. Company, Galle,

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Marques, Pio, Hongkong,

Owen, Mr., Ednam Road, Croydon, London,

Page, Fredrick, Yokohama,..

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Patrices, Madame, Rue du Chemin de Fer, Paris,

!.. Saparoca, Java,.

sick. Clones, Fermanagh, Ireland,

, Buxton, England,

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Pounazzi, L., Alexandria,

Percivale, D., Jersey,

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J., 9, Patriot Street, Commercial Road, London,

Perregaux, F., Singapore,

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Pilkington, B., 159, Ballspond Road, Islington, London,

nie, Treasure City, Nevada,

Postmaster General, Singapore,

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Mrs. J. E., 47, Marquis Road, London, N.W.,

Punchard, Capt. W., 21, Paynton Street, London,

Lourez, Portugal,

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Shearer, John, Royal Observatory, Liverpool,

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Upper Park Road, Haverstock Hill, London,

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Schrieber, C., H.M‚'s 73rd Regiment, Singapore,

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Toronto, Canada West,

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Shillingford, A. N., S.S. Sholomaru, Singapore,

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Singapore,.

Ann, Addison Street, Liverpool,

dre, St. Benoit, Isle Réunion,

y barque Dora, Foochow,

Critich, Hongkong,

Factory, Kensington, Liverpool,

Fitteral Post Office, Hongkong, 30th June, 1870.

1 Tuckie, J., Bedminster, Bristol, England,

Vermande, P., Ambon, Java,

1 Waller, Mrs. Sigill, Northumberland,

2 Walsh, C. F., Clarendon Villas, Southgate, Loudon,

1 Wallis, Mrs., 1, Rumbed Plice, Liverpool,

Stanley, Capt. Fred., Harbour Master, Yarmouth, British America,.

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