out of any value, I think it more prudent to make timely requisition.
I have &c.
A. Lister
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Copy
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General Post Office London 30 July 1886
In compliance with the request made in your letter of the 4th of last month
[signed]
No. 459.
Postmaster General!
A supply of postal orders of the total value of £10,725 was forwarded to Mong Mong in the mail despatched hence via Brindisi on the evening of the 23rd inst. I remark that the demand is an unusually large one, but that as it has been made with the approval of the Colonial Government, I have not hesitated to send the full supply asked for, in view of the inconvenience anticipated.
In the Postmaster General,