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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1870.

NOTICE.

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

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1.-On or before the 1st June proximo, all Ships, with the following exceptions, shall be moved to the North side of the Harbor, mooring them properly with 45 fathoms on each Chain, the hors 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 extremity of the Kowloong Peninsula, bearing E. by S.; the Top Gallant Masts and Yards are on Deck and Flying Jib-boom in; a spare Anchor should be ready for letting go, and the Hawse

clear.

.-Vessels discharging or taking in Cargo, and Hulks and Receiving Ships may, with permission, the South shore.

Note.--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.

H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, Fc.

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

NOTICE.

Any persons who have in their possession old Registration Tickets belonging to Servants who re left or have been dismissed, are requested to send the same to this Office, with any remarks, on arate papers, they may wish to have recorded.

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

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

ALFRED LISTER, Acting Registrar General.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

A practice has been adopted by the Chinese residents of this Colony of sending their letters for Francisco to the Office of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, for transmission to their ination otherwise than through the Post Office, and as this practice is contrary to the laws of this ay as well as those of the United States of America, Chinese and others are warned that persons

ending in future will be dealt with as the law directs.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 13th July, 1870.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

F. W. MITCHELL, Pustmaster General.

It is hereby notified for general information that on and after the 1st August next, the Commission geable on Money Orders issued upon the United Kingdom at Hongkong, Shanghae and Yokohama be as follows, viz. :-

On sums not exceeding £2,

Above £2 and not exceeding £5,

Above £5 and not exceeding £7,

Above £7 and not exceeding £10,

General Post Office, Hongkong, 15th July, 1870.

18 cents.

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F. W. MITCHELL,

Postmester General.