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His Excellency Governor Sir Arthur Hennedy has been pleased to call
for my report. I have the honor to
state
Firstly. The proposal by the Governor of the Straits Settlements to the Government of the Netherlands India for a mutual free delivery of correspondence between Java and Singapore, having been left to be settled by the Government of Singapore because there are no British Mail Packets employed in the conveyance of the Mails between- Java and Singapore, and therefore
co
1-operation on the part of the Imperial Post Office became.
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unnecessary, a similar arrangement
for the mutual exchange of mails between Java and this Colony suggested.
is
Secondly. The circumstances in which this bolony is placed with regard to this proposal differ materially from those of Singapore, inasmuch as the mails between Hong Kong and Java
are
HongKong
conveyed by the
British Contract Mail Packets
and Singapore
between HongHong and
and on this account it will be
in the case of this
necessary..
Colony that the proposal of the Netherlands Government should be submitted to the General Fost
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