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905
POST OFFICE . ( 1 of 1887.]
REVISED RATES OF POSTAGE
IN HONGKONG , AND AT British Post OFFICES IN CHINA.
(Gazette 4th April, 1891. )
The Post Office declines all responsibility for unregistered covers
containing bank notes, coin , or jewellery ; and , where Registration




Newspapers
has been neglected , wiLL MAKE NO ENQUIRIES into alleged losses of
such corers .




Registered
Prices




Articles
Patterns




Registration
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and




Receipt
Books




Return
Cards
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(a .)
cents. cents . cents. cents. cents.cents.

Between Hongkalfi-CantonandMacao;}
delivery (n.)
h 1 2 2 5 5



To China , (or from China to Hongkong), (6 .)...
19 Cochin -China, .....
Corea ,
99 Japan ,
North Borneo ..... 5 1 2 2
Philippine Islands, ( c .)
Siam ,
Straits Settlements,
Tonquin ,
To Australia ,...... ) Via TORRES STRAITS, .. 10
CANNOT
New Zealand , BE 2 2 10
Хот
Tasmania , (6.) SENT .
Issl'ED .

Fiji , VIA CEYLON , 15
Caxxor
BE 5
To Natal and Cape Colony, . . ( 6.) 20 SENT.
5 10 ISSUED.


To all other places, 10 3 2 2 10
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(d.) (d. )
To United Kingdom , 7 3 2 2 7


(a .) Not to exceed 4 oz. in weight, ( Prices Current, 2 oz.) otherwise the rate is per 4 oz.
for newspapers, and per 2 oz. for other printed matter.
(6. ) Prepayment is compulsory.
(c. ) REGISTRATION IN CHINA extends to Hoihow , Canton , Swatow , Amoy, Foochow ,
Ningpo, Shanghai and Hankow only .
(d. ) Cannot be sent to countries not in the Postal Union.
FOR PARCEL RATES ; see separate Ta or the Postal Guide.
GENERAL POST OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 4th April , 1891 .

Order by the Governor in Council of the 19th and gazelted the
21st April, 1888.

Under the powers granted by section 8 of Ordinance 1 of 1887, the
Governor in Council is pleased to order that the provisions of the Parcel Post
be extended to the Colonies of Victoria, and South and West Australia ; to
the West Coast of Africa, the Austrian and French post offices in Turkey,
the Azores Islands, Beyrout, Bulgaria, the Cameroons, Costa Rica, French
Colonies, Madeira, and Servia ; and that the table hereto annexed be the
table of rates of postage for the parcel post till further notice.