which has passed the Colonial Office and the General Post Office, regarding the proposal made by this Government that the Imperial Post-Office should increase its contribution to the Postal Agencies at the Treaty Ports of China in view of the increase of salaries granted to the agents this year and approved by Your Lordship.
Enclosure 7th October 1890:
2. I enclose copy of a Report by the Acting Postmaster General in which Mr Travers shows how the expenditure of this Government in connection with the Postal Agencies has gradually increased, and controverts the points made in the letters from the Imperial Post Office. The statements contained in the last paragraph of Sir Arthur Blackwood's