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Sir.
General Port Office
29th October 1870.
Having submitted to the Postmaster General four letter of the 6t Instant, Enclosing a despatch from Her Majesty's Coul at Manila complaining of the high rates of postage charged
letters between the Philippine Islands and the United kingdom and
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Hongkong
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respectively, and also your letter of the 21? forwarding copy of a further despatch from the Consul on the same subject, I am directed to acquaint you for the information of
direction
Earl franville, that letters sent in wither between the United Kingdom and the Philippine Islands,
only be conveyed by British Mail Packets to or from Hongkong, and for that
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service they are charged with no more
than the
Right Hon: Edmund Hammond
British
Foreign Office