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