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Enclosure
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The Postmaster Goviral to The Acting Colonial Secretary
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Sir,
Several Post Office,
Hong Kong, 14 September 1884.
With reference to Lord Derby's Despatch
1. 1744 of July 25th on the seebject of the A.2.174
arrangements to be made on the termination of the present mail contract, I have the honour to report as follows :
2.
Lord Derbey's Despatch, which
w referred.
to me
by order
of the Governor, rexises three questions; -
(a) Would it be possible to do an
away with subsidies, and to eutrust
the mails to the most suitable vessels
starting
he Honourable
Dr J. Stewart,
on
the
voyage for China
Acting Colonial Secretary
paying