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The Peking Gazette

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 22.

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The Peking Gazette

A HONG KONG journal furnishes some particulars concerning the Peking Gazette, the oldest periodical in the world. Its circulation is estimated at 100,000. There are ten publishers in Canton, each of whom employs about ten distributors, so that there are one hundred distributors in the city and suburbs alone. The Gazette is printed from movable types, and each publisher takes a certain number of copies. It is delivered every two days to subscribers, who are of two classes. The first retain the pamphlet and pay about twenty cents a month; the second pay about one half the sum and return the Gazette to the distributor the next time he comes around. Together with it is delivered the local “official sheet,” which is collected from the yamens daily. This is printed from wax blocks, which are then remelted and available for another day’s issue.
—Sel.