despatch on the subject of Postal Agencies in China and Japan, July 25, 1867.
70 with it.
For that being so, 9162 I consider the provision of some kind of Post Office at Tientsin to be a question of
(b) M H. Beach despatch of December 30, 1879 on the same subject, and my report upon it.
(c) C.S.O. No 668 of 1878 and my report upon it.
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I do not know that I have much to add to my Reports upon the above documents, except that I understand from members of the Consular Service with whom I have discussed the question, that the courier transport need present no difficulty, nor need this Colony have anything whatever to do with it.
No pressing necessity, such as ought not to be left unsettled. I had intended to bring it forward for consideration at an early date, and indeed should have moved in the matter long since but for reasons to which I need not perhaps particularly allude.
5. The inconveniences which Mr. Brenan again describes have been so often allowed to stand over for the consideration of this and that, that I venture respectfully