Java Europe sections of the several Post Office Agencies in China and Japan,
— they learn to long before your last result of our investigations
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Your Excellency stated that you would prefer to receive a joint report from us, if practicable, and we have found this course convenient.
3. In the performance of this duty, we visited each existing Agency with a view to ascertain, by personal observation, whether additional postal Agencies are necessary at any of the other treaty Ports, more especially at Swatow and Chefoo, from which places applications for the establishment of such Agencies had been received.
We visited Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochew, Ningpo, Shanghai, Hankow, and Chefoo, and Nagasaki, Hiogo, and Yokohama, which places there is already a Post Office Agent; and, with the exception of Shanghai, these Agents are all Consular Officers, and carry out the duties of this office.
We observed the manner in which the business is conducted, and whether all reasonable accommodation is afforded to the public; and secondly,