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Chefoo, Tientsin and Peking, as the large and increasing number of British residents at these places render it only a national right that, providing no appreciable loss be anticipated, they should be given the facility to post in their own offices.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
"The Honourable
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Table A.
APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1901.
International and Local Correspondence.
E. CORNEWALL LEWIS,
Acting Postmaster General.
International,
Local.
Comparison with 1900.
Description of Correspondence.
Total.
Des- patched.
Received.
Des- patched.
Received.
Total in 1900.
Increase. Decrease.
Ordinary Paid Letters,
Unpaid or Short-paid Articles,. Letters on Postal Business, Post Cards,...
Newspapers, Books, Circulars, Patterus,
&c.,
Registered Articles,
|1,906,350|1,952,160 90,610
53,460
4,002,580
3,544,430458,130
14,020 91,310 1,920 7,510 7,070 2,600 107,220| 86,550 3,720
1,010
138.260
130,410 7,850
2,030
880
19,210 198,370
12,910
6,300
173,090
25,280
716,560 1,555,970, 72,540 185,770 242,890 9,360
7,620 | 2,852,690 | 2,311,580
41,110
J
6,340
Do.,
with Return Receipts, Insured Letters (Actual),..
i
444,360 409,820
34,540
990 153
6,730 107
70
2,760
10,350
7,130
3,420
260
137
143
Local Delivery :-Letters, Circulars,&c.,]
278,720
211,870
66,850
Table B.
Mails
for
from
Hongkong.
Mails for H. M.'s Ships.
Ordinary.
Registered.
Loose
Bags. Packets. Letter Bags. Packets.
Parcel! Boxes.
Bags. Bugs.
Boxes.
Mail Bays, &c., Received and Despatched during the Year 1901.
Mails sent in transit through 11ongkong.
Number of Steamers
bringing Mails.
Arri- ! De- vals. partures.
Mails for
Foreign
Men-of-
War.
Bags. Packets.
Received, 38,303 1,643
1,2087,854
Despatched, 25,873, 1,545 1,050 9,239
3,156 | 2,391
2,332 | 2,535
2,472 !
810
2,448
1,722
18,211
4875,914
6,626
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January,
February,
Marcb,...
April,
May,
June,
July......
August,
September,
October,
November, December,
Table C.
Sale of Stumps at Hongkong, 1900 and 1901.
1900. .$19,767.98
1901. $21,677.86
13,762 84
16,080.79
18,297.22
21,944.98
16,495.48
19,623.88
17,741.82
21,031.83
17,722.32
16.818.91
19,272.19
17,687.60
18,993.75
20,932.43
17,940.29
17,529.89
18,561.80
20,281,21
20,024.19
23,611.28
19,032.86
22,157.13
Total,....
.$217,612.24
$239,377.49