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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MARCH, 1865.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
87
Arrangements having been made for forwarding from Point de Galle by the French Packets the Mails arriving from tralia in those cases when the French Packets afford a prospect of an earlier receipt of the Mails at Hongkong than if were kept for conveyance by the regular British Contract Packets, it is hereby notified for general information, that as French Sca Rate of Postage will have to be accounted for by the British Post Office to the Post Office of France when Mails are conveyed by the French Packet the correspondence contained in them, although fully prepaid at the place of origin, will be taxed on arrival in this Office at the rate of
7d. for a letter not exceeding an ounce in weight,
18. 2d.
28. 4d.
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And so on adding 1s. 2d. for each ounce or fraction of an ounce after the first ounce, and Newspapers or Prices Current 1d. each, which will be collected on delivery of the correspondence in Hongkong.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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General Post Office, Hongkong, 23rd February, 1865.
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK.
REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.
6 A.M.
NOON.
6 P.M.
1865.
Barometer.
Thermometer. Barometer. Thermometer.
Barometer.
Thermometer.
February 25
29.93
77
26
30.00
74
27
30.04
74
"
28
30.03
75
27
March
1
30.07
72
2
30.10
68
"
3
30.02
KAAPROS
29.96
78
30.03
77
30.04
78
30.09
72
30.09
68
30.13
ΤΟ
69
30.00
72
****822
30.00
30.03
30.03
30.08
73
30.09
30.02
29.99
70
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75
76
77
68
70
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DATE.
BAROMETER.
REGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.
Height above Sea Level 1,770 feet. ·
HYDROMETER.
DRY BULB.
WET BULE.
GA.M.
9 A.M.
Noox.
3 P.M.
Ù P.M.
¤ A.M.
Noox.
6 P.M.
6 A.M.
NOON.
6 P.M.
THER-
MOMETER.
Self Re- gistering
WINDS.
Min Max.
6 A.M.
Force, ranges from 0 to 12.
NOON
REMARKS AS TO WEATHER.
6 P.M.
Dirm. F. Dira, P.
Dira.
F.
Noon.
1865.
Feb. 25 28.00 28.02 28.05 28.04 28.04 67.30 68.30 C7.30 67.30 68.30 07.30|65.30 69.30 SSW
3 S
4 S
3
Dense fog throughout.
11
; 26 28.02 28.04 28.06 28.09 28.07|67.30 68.30 68.00 67.90 68.30 68.00 65.30 71.30 S
3 S
2 SSE
3
Do.
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27 28.10 28.10 28.10 28.10.28.11 66.30 69.30 67.30 €5.30 67.00 67:00 64.90 70.30 S
2 S
1 SSE
2
Dense fog until 2.35 FM., then passing fog,
latter do. do.
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:
11
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28 28.10 28.11 28.13 28.10 28.00 66.80 64.30 64.00 66.00 64.30 63.30 64.00 68.30 SSE
Mar. 128.08 28.10 28.10′28.00 28.00 62.30 64.30 65.30 61.30 64.00 64.3059.30 69.30 |ELS
2 SE
3 SE
4
Thick fog throughout.
1
3 EbS
4 SE
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1 2 28.11 28.12 28.10 26.11 28.10′62.30'64.00 65.00 63.00 61.00 64.00 60.30 68.30]EbS
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3 EbS
4 SE
co co
3
Do.
3 Dense fog throughout.
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3 (28.08 28.07 28.06 28.04 28.10 C5.03 70.00 57.30 65.00 67.30 65.30 62.30 71.30 SE
2 SSE
2 SE
3 Passing fog throughout.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
List of Unpaid and Registered LETTERS and PAPERS lying at the Hongkong Post Office for Her Majesty's
Ships of War, 3rd March, 1865.
Letters. Papers.
Letters. Papers.
Letters. Papers.
Adventure
17 6 Haughty
6
Oppossum
1
Staunch
Clown
4
3
P. Charlotte
22
Grasshopper
2
Melville
9
Rifleman
6 2
Letters, Papers.
2
st,
List of unclaimed LETTERS and PAPERS lying in the Post Office for Military, 3rd March, 1865.
Lieut. W. E. Price,
Letters. l'apers.
2
2
Letters. Papers.
Letters. Papers.
Capt. Milman,
1
Lieut. Wood,
1
Major McMullin,
10
Lieut. R. B. Colton,
Capt. Temple,
1
Licut. J. H. Rowlandson,
i
Major MacMullin,
2
2
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