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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND AUGUST, 1868.

VOL. XIV.

No. 35.

No. 99.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at this Office up to Noon on the 1st proximo, for the making up of Winter Clothing for the Police Force, as follows:-

Serge Tunics for Europeans,.

Do. Trowsers do.,

Blue Cloth Tunics for Sikhs,

Do. Trowsers do.,

Serge Jackets for Water Police, .

Do. Trowsers

do.,

.105

.105

.100

..100

..180

........180

Lining, facings, &c. to be supplied by the Contractor, the Blue Cloth and Serge to be furnished by the Police Department.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Patterns may be seen at the Police Office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th August, 1868.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary. ·

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

1.-On the 1st of October next, and thenceforward Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghae and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for Amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Current for each Mail, and charged with Commission according to the following Scale, viz. :-

For Sums not exceeding £2,.. Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5,

17

£5 £7

77

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£ 7,

£10,

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2.-No Money Order to include a fractional part of a Penny.

Cents.

.12

24

42

48

3.-Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghae, and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange, at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presenta-

tion.

4.-Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom, shewing the Counties in which they are situated are hung up for public reference at this Office, and also at Shanghae and Yokohama.

5.-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name, both of the Remitter and the Payce; if the Remitter or Payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his ordinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as "BARING BROTHERS" will suffice, but the mere term Messrs. such as "Messrs. RIVINGTON," or the name of a Company trading under a title which does not consist of the names of the persons composing it, such as "CARRON Co." is inadmissible.

6. The Remitter on stating that the Order is to be paid only through a Bank, to have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the Payee, in such case, the Order will be crossed in the same way that Cheques are commonly crossed when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.