The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-13
The Collins telegraph Route.
IMPORTANT ORDER RESPECTING ovERL AND CoMMUl
OATION BETWEEN KIAKHTA AND TIEN-TsIN

IMPORTANT ORDER RESPECTING OVERLAP ooMMUNI-
CATION BETWEEN KIAKHTA AND TIEN-TsIN.
81. Petersburg dec. 23) telegram to London PreSS
The following official notice with respect TO
increased facilities of overland postal and parcels
communication with China has Just been pub
Gshed by the Russian Post Office:-
In consequence of information received from
the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, the
Postal Department has to inform the public that
postal communication was opened on the 9th of
last October between Kiakhta and Tien-tsin, by
way of 0urga, Kagane and Pekin. Single let
tiers, or letters containing Enclosures of money
or documents, as also parcels and telegraphie
dispatches, are forwarded four times month
both ways, at the aforementioned dates:--
In the direction of Kiakhta to Pekln--From
Kiakhta, the 9Th, 9th, 10th, 26th; from 0urga,
the 7th, 14th, 2lst, 28th; from Kalgane, the 9th,
23d, 30th, 7th; from Pekin, the 18th, 25th, I'd,
9th. In the direction of Pekin to Kiakhta-
From Pekin, the 4th, 18th, goth, 9th; from Kali
game, the 9Th, 18th, 22d, 10Th; from Ourga, the
18th, 22d, 1st 9Th; from Kiakhta, the 18th, oath,
Sd, 10th.
The charge upon correspondence for China is
fixed as tolows:-d. The charge from the point
of departure in the interior of the Empire to the
frontier post office at Kiakhta is the rate fixed
by the postal tariff for the in terror. b. The
charges between Kiakhta, Ourga, Kalgane,
Pekin, and Tien-tsin are:-
a. Single rate-l. For every single letter. with
documents, credit or bank notes, small objects
in silver or gold, and for teegraphlc dispatches,
per 10th (half ounce). From Kiakhta to Tien-
tsin, Pekn, and Kalgane, and pice UerSd thirty
copecks; from Kiakhta to Ourga, and Uice Uersd,
ten copecks; from Ourga to Men-tsin, Pekin, and
Kalgane and 0iOe Uersd, twenty copecks; from
Tien-tsin to Pekin and Kalgane, and rice uersa,
ten copecks.
2. For parcels, ordinary or containing docu-
ments, per livre (pound) from Kiakhta TO Tien-
tsiD, Pekin, and Kalgane, and Ulce UerSd. forty
copecks for single parcels, and sixty-fve copecks
if they contain documents; from Kiakhta 10
0urga, and oice uersd for single parcels, fifteen
copecks-wlth documents, twenty-five copecks;
from 0urga to Ten-tsin, Pekin and Kalgane, and
oice UeTSd for single parcels, twenty-five copecks
with documents, forty cOpecks; from Tien-
tsin to Pekln and Kalgane, and Uice VersG, for
single parcels, fifteen copecks-with documents,
twenty copecks
3. Parcels containing objects of value il
weighing under pound, will be charged letter
rate upon every 10th (half ounce); if weighing
exactly a pound or over, will pay per pound
parcel rate. Coin and goldsmfth's work can
only be forwarded by the Mongol post in parcels
not exceeding ten pounds weight, package in
cluded. Parcels containing coin or goldsmith:
work should be packed in the most substantial
manner.
3. Charges upon unpaid barrels are reckone
IN the same proportion as for their transmission
from the point OF departure in the interior of the
empire TO the frontier post office at Kiakhta.
The charge OF couriers between Kiakhta anC
| Ifen-tsin is for one horse ninety-eight roubles
| for two one hundred and forty-seven roubles
| The department thinks right 10 add that the DOS
| leaves st. Petersburg for Kiakhta every Tuesda,
and Friday, and reaches Kiakhta in five weeks.