& sanction
Hong Kong the delaying of the Box
To The W Hooker on
If the sum
payment
which would
have been charged
if it had been forwarded
By the Overland Steamer
The Acting Governor
has been requested obtain the c
...
the concurrence
of This Council
in this decision.
Tilchate
Bai 482 ong trong
Registered No.
No. 84,741.
In any further correspondence on this subject, the above
number should be quoted.
Circular
22.10.Oct.
Krug-131 — 10
RECEIVED
15 MAY
1863
...
14.
Ceylon
228
Australia
General Post Office,
to th May 1862.
directed
by
The Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information
of the Duke
inconvenience.
Specification of
Newcastle, that much
has
long
been felt from the
the rule under which
under which the French
portion of the postage chargeable upon all
letters forwarded vià Marseilles to India,
China, Australia, &c; is collected by the quarter
postage scale,
While
the remainder
is chargeable according
to the
scale applicable to British Inland letters
This rule has been rendered
necessary by
Article
of the Postal
Foreign
Convention with France
which provides that
"the French rate to be levied on each letter,
of a quarter of
an ounce
that such letter
may...