THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20тп JANUARY, 1866.
❤
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
39
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward the size of any packet, whether of Books, Patterns or Newspapers, intended to be forwarded by the post between Hongkong and the United Kingdom must not exceed two feet in length and one foot in width and depth; such packets exceeding these limits as to size will not be forwarded.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Post Master General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1866.
·
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that the following modifications have been made in the regulations for the transmission of Patterns by post from Hongkong to the United Kingdom by way of Southampton.
1st. The removal of the prohibition against the transmission of articles of intrinsic value by the Pattern and Sample Post. 2nd. Samples of Seeds, drugs and similar Articles are now allowed to be sent in bags entirely closed, provided such bags be transparent, so that the Officers of the Post Office may satisfy themselves as to the nature of the contents.
3rd. The rule which prohibited the transmission through the post, as patterns, of articles of cuttlery, &c., has been rescinded, and scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, and such like articles, are now allowed to be forwarded by the post as samples, provided they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail bags, and to the persons of the Officers of the Post Office. Such articles however must be so packed that they may be easily examined, and it is made a rule that any packet containing such articles which may be found to be insufficiently guarded shall not be forwarded through the post.
It will be understood that the foregoing modified regulations extend only to Patterns to be sent in the mails forwarded by way of Southampton to the United Kingdom, at the same time the regulations at present in force as to the transmission of Patterns in the mails forwarded by way of Marseilles to the United Kingdom have been so far altered as to admit of samples of seeds, drugs and similar articles being forwarded in the mails via France packed in transparent bags which may be closed: such bags however must not contain anything in the nature of a letter and the articles themselves so forwarded must not be of intrinsic value.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1866.
F. W. MITCHELL,
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.
REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.
Post Master General.
GA.M.
NOON.
6 P.M.
1866.
Barometer. Thermometer. Barometer. Thermometer.
Barometer.
Thermometer.
January 13
30.15
01
30.14
65
30.15
60
14
30.17
64
30.16
65
*30.15
65
"
15
30.12
61
30.11
63
30.12
64
16
30.10
60
30.11
62
30.10
65
"
17
30.10
01
30.11
63
30.12
64
19
18
30.15
(2
30.14
64
30.14
64
"
19
30.14
62
30.14
64
30.10
65
"
DATE.
BAROMETER.
GA.M.
9 A.M.
*NOOK
F.M.
REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK. Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet.
HYDROMETER.
DRY BULB.. WET BULB.
6 P.M.
6 A.M.
Νους.
P.M.
GA.M.
NOON.
6 r.M.
THER- MOMETER.1
Self Re- gistering.
Min Max.
Noou.
WINDS.
Force, range from 0 to 12.
6 P.M.
Dirn. F. Dira. P.
6 A.M.
Dirn. F.
NoOx
REMARES AS TO WEATHER.
"
1866.
Jan. 13 28.42 28.43 28.42 28.38 28.00 $52.00 00.00 56.50 51.00 58.00 55.00150.00 68.00 EbN
14 28 40 28 44 28.42 28.37 28.3751.00′54.50 49.50 50,00 51.10 46.5044
11:00 61,00 NE
I
i
1
2NDE
१७
2
1 INDE 2
N 4 INDE 4
Fine throughout.
Do.
15 28.58 28.38 28.37 28.50 28.215.00 51.50'50.35 43.00'48.50 47.50 57.00 60,00 NNW
¡
17
16 (28.30 28.36|23.32 25.28/28.2×110.00 55,00 51.00 44,00 31.00 40.00 93.50 65,00‡NW
"
17 28.35 28.38|28.27/28.32 28.3 19.50 58.00 52.50 49.00 54.50 51.00₤37.00 65,00|E
3 NEW
1 NE
2 E
i
3 NEW 4
Do.
"
18 28.38 28.12|28.38|28,24|28.55)40.00 55.00 52.50 47.50 52.30 52.00156,50 63.00|EŁN
3 E
2 NW
2 ELN
: 4 E
1
Do.
2
Do.
5
Do.
19 28.83 28.37|28.31|28.29)28.82) 19.00 52.50 53.00 48.50 51.80 52.00 35.50 62.50|E
4 E
4 E
5
Passing fog from 9 A.M., then fine.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's
Ships of War, 19th January, 1866.
Letters, Papers. -
Letters. Papers,
Letters. Papers.
Algerine
19
Flamer
3
Insolent
7
Perseus
Letters. Papers.
12
Adventure
9
Argus
*
Grasshopper
ດ
Melville
1
·
Rifleman
+
净
Bustard
j
Havoc
Orontes
97
Coromandel
10
Haughty
2
Serpont Slaney
21
4
Cockchafer
1
Hesper
1
P. Charlotte
22
Stausch
5
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.