This condition may be reasonable - but it is nevertheless foreign to the usual conditions refunded to by the Treasury in 1889 upon the merits was granted. The Post Office abandoned the grant taken up by them in 1886.
The Convention & urge this matter as being a earnest complaint the Company to accede to the Convention. Note, but whether they depend on this letter & the Company's clause of reference & by which they are getting obligated.
Till Treasury do, we are to be informed which Convention Clauses.
In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
TREASURY CHAMBERS, 3rd April 1885
C.O. 5637
RED 3
RECD 4 APR 8
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been in communication with the Postmaster General in reference to the correspondence between your Department and the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited which accompanied Mr. Bramston's letter of the 2nd.
They now desire me to forward to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State a copy of the Report which they have received from the Postmaster General on the subject matter of the correspondence in question.
I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,
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