In the reply to this Letter the following
Number should be quoted.
137811
86.
176313
TREC? 623
TREASURY CHAMBERS, SEP 30)
September 1886.
I
am directed by the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you
herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, with reference
to
your
letter of
14203
the 18th ulto, an
extract of a Report from the
Postmaster General upon the Despatch from the
Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong
on the subject of the Eastern mail service.
There are many
probability that the charge
for the service will be reduced.
sufficiently
to raise
the question of reducing the Hong Kong Contribution
I am,
Your obedient Servant
Honble. R. H. Meade,
Assistant.