Enclosure 4.
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Effier Administering the Government of Hongkong to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.
(Copy.)
Government House,
Hongkong, 2nd August, 1886.
In reply to the last paragraph of Your Excellency's Despatch of 14th ultimo, I have the honour to state that my object in forwarding to you copies of the correspondence between Mr. Kopsch and the Postmaster General was that Your Excellency might have the opportunity of expressing your own views to the Foreign Office on the proposal of the Chinese Government to take over the Post Offices at the Coast Ports. I did not think that...
Sir John Walsham, Bart.,
Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.