}
given
to the mails being carried by the Pacific Mail Steam Thip Company's Packets between Wonghing
and Tokohama .
The conesponden
correspondence transmitted
between this Colony and Yokohama by the United States Packeto is
inconsiderables; the
number
of Letters sent to Tokohama by each
Steamer being
whilst those
and
200 and
of Papers 170;
received are,
Papers 60 ; the
Getters 100,
the annual revenue
acering to this Office on the
correspondence
dence sent amountin
to about $550.
6
amounting
to are to be
If arrangements
any notice from
concluded without
the United States Post Office,
there is no
objection
on
389
and
the part.
of that Office, or by the Pacific Mail Steam Thip Company, I
would recommend that the Colonial
Government should, in the first
place offer
Post Office
to receive at the British
at Tokohama all
correspondence for Wonghong) for transmission by the United States Packets, and to deliver the
dence
corresponden forwarded by those Packets from Hongkong to Tokohama from that Office.
7
Thould this proposal not
e. Japan Post
be acceptable to the
then it Office;
might be agreed