the application of at

least a cheap and temporary

remedy without further postponement,

at Amoy, and £50

a

year

if this Office should oper

Agency at the for.

and that the allowance

cance of $12.

a

7. It appears to me

0

mouth asked for by Mr Brenaw

granted, pending

be at once

Consideration.

of

the

question of establishing a satisfactory Postal

Agency at Funtsin.

6. The more pressing necessity being thus disposed of. I think the London Office should be asked, through the Colonial Office, whether it would

Contribute £150

the expenses of a

year towards

Postal Agency

in Tientein, and of

an assistant

at

ncre)

arr

that while

the British and Hong Kong Post

Offices jointly undertake to carry on what is at present the only

really organised attempt at a fully equipped Post Office on the Coast of China, such however

elementary in character, should be as

efficient

as complete and decently

as it can

be

made

without

disproportionately

extravagant outlay. And this it certainly is not whilst the

various

Legations

at

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