THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MARCH, 1868.
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13. The sum which the Colonial Government derived on Mails from the United Kingdom during the Year 1807 amounts to £790.3.6, or £437.4.9 less than the sum received from the same source in the previous Year.
14. During the Year 1867, 164,761 Letters and 145,597 Newspapers and Prices Current were sent in the Mails by the British Packets to the United Kingdom, which show a decrease of 7,070 Letters and 7,258 Papers in the Year 1867 as compared with the Year 1866, and this accounts in some measure for the falling off in the Imperial share of the Revenue.
15. The number of Letters sent to the United Kingdom in the Mails by the French Packets during the Year 1867 is 10,597 and the number of papers 4,428, shewing an increase of 523 Letters and 2,557 Papers in the Year 1867, as compared with 1866; the number of Letters and Papers sent from the United Kingdom, either by the English or French Packets is not has not been considered desirable to take the numbers entered in the accounts which accompany the Mails from London, and
here because such a practice would involve delay in the delivery of the correspondence to the Public.
16. The Letters received in the Mails by the Pacific Packets number 4,091 and the Papers 6,188, and those sent 4,366 Letters and 4,670 Papers: the first Mail by these Vessels was received on the 31st January, 1867, and the first Mail was dispatched on the 17th February: there were 5 Mails dispatched and the same number received during the Year.
17. The Registered Letters received from London during 1867 numbered 985, or 46 in excess of those received in 1866, whilst those sent from Hongkong to London number 821, or 184 less in 1867 than in 1866.
/whilst
18. The number of Ship Mails (.e. Mails conveyed by Vessels not under Contract) received at Hongkong during the Year 1807 was 1,179, or 58 in excess of those received in 1866, and the number of such Mails which were despatched from Hongkong was 1,747, or 131 more than the number sent in 1866.
19. During the Year 1867, 1,110 Official Letters on the business of the Office were received and 855 Letters were sent from the Office.
20. From the Returns appended it will be observed that during the Year 1867 great improvements have taken place in the Arrival of the British Contract Mails and that 19 Mails have arrived before their due date, one on its due date, and only four arrived after they were due here, and that 41 days were gained on the voyage and 12 lost in the transmission of the Mails via Southampton, and 42 days were gained and 10 lost in the transmission of those vià Marseilles, against 31 days gained and 25 days lost in the Year 1866, and that the quickest time in which a Mail was brought from London to Hongkong viâ Marseilles was 38 days against 37 days in 1866.
21. I append a Return shewing the dates of the "Arrival and Departure of the French Packets in the Year 1867, by which it is shewn that the quickest Mail brought from London by this line in 1867 occupied 39 days; the same time in which the quickest Mail was delivered in Hongkong in the previous Year.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
The Honorable CECIL C. SMITH,
&c.,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
fc., &c.
RETURN shewing the NUMBER of DAYS allowed for the conveyance of MAILS from London to Hongkong vid Southampton and via Marseilles; the time each voyage occupied, and the number of days lost or gained during the Year, 1867.
VIA MARSEILLES.
VIA SOUTHAMPTON,
Date of Departure.
in
Time allowed No. of No. of No. of
days
days, days lost Time Table. occupied. gained.
Date of Departure.
in
Time allowed No. of
days Time Table. occupied.
No. of days gained.
No. of
days lost.
1867.
January
52 days
19
48
51 50
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February
4
49
>>
20
48
48
48
73
March
49
47
}}
20
48
47
22
}}
April
48
46
"}
20
48
46
27
""
May
4
48
45
19
20
49
45
""
June
4
48
44
22
20
48
45
"2
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July
48
46
"7
20
48
46
27
33
August
48
47
13
20
48
50
22
11
September
4
48
50
"
20
52
27
October
4
52
19
November 4
20
2832
50
51
23
52
58
27
53
51
""
52
40
December 4
52
50
20
52
49
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1867. January
"2
February
11
March
17
April
May
22
June
17
July
"J
August 10
28=8=822AKAQARA
10
26
26
11
26
10
26
10
27
10
B B B B 8 8 68685
46 days
45
1
42
44
42
41
42
42
>>
42
40
21
42
41
"}
42
40
**
42
40
"}
42
39
""
42
38
""
42 27
38
26
42
39
37
10
42
40
26
42
40
42
40
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26
42
44
September 10 October
42
44
"
26
46
44
10
46
45
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44 "}
48
November 11
46
44
>>
26
46
43
"
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December
10
46
44
"3
26
46
43
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77
TOTAL,.. 1,188 days
Average number of days allowed for each voyage,
Do.
* Left London one day earlier than date fixed in Time Table.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1868.
1,159
41
12
TOTAL,..
1,038 days
1,006
42
10
.49/1/20
occupied in
>>
....
.48
72
""
Average number of days allowed for each voyage, ..431
Do.
..4111
* Left London 3 days later than time fixed in Time Table.
occupied in
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General.
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