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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887. 2085


Post Office.


RATES OF POSTAGE.
IN HONGKONG, AND AT BRITISH POST OFFICES IN CHINA.
The Post Office declines all responsibility for unregistered covers containing bank notes,
coin, or jewellery ; and, where registration has been neglected, WILL MAKE NO




Registered
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Newspapers
ENQUIRIES into alleged losses of such covers.




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cents. cents. cents. cents. cents. cents.
Between Hongkong, Canton and Macao, (c .) || 2 1 2 2 5 5
and for local delivery, ……………
.........
....... ..] (d.) S

To China, (or from China to Hongkong), (c.)
17 Cochin- China ,……………….
Corea, .....
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Japan, ............. 5 2 2
Philippine Islands,.. ……………….. (f.)
Siam direct, *****.... …………………… .......... ... (e.)
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Tonquin, .............
To Australia, VIA TORRES STRAITS , 10
2




CANNOT
19 New Zealand,... BE 10 NOT
19 Tasmania, (c.) ISSUED.
SENT.
10
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19 Fiji,…………….. VIA CEYLON , 30
CANNOT
To Natal and Cape Colony, ....... 30 BE 5 5 10 NOT
.(c.) ISSUED.
SENT.
To all other places, 10 3 2 2 10 5
(9.) (9.)

(a.) COMMERCIAL PAPERS are documents wholly or partly written by hand, not being letters , such as
invoices, deeds, copied music, &c. All packets of and under 4 oz. weight are charged 5 cents
each.
(b.) Not to exceed 4 oz . in weight, otherwise the rate is per 4 oz . for newspapers, and per 2 oz. for
other printed matter.
(c.) Prepayment is compulsory.
(d .) Wholly unpaid letters from Canton or Macao are charged as if from other ports of China.
(e ) Letters for Siam viâ Singapore, 10 cents per half ounce.
(f.) REGISTRATION IN CHINA extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai
and Hankow only.
(g.) Cannot be sent to countries not in the Postal Union.


Order made by the Governor in Council under the provisions of section 8 of The Post
Office Ordinance, 1887, the 19th and gazetted 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.