in
27289 al: $21,000: reduces it to $13,00
ཟིམ་མཐན་ མི་འཐའི་ཆ
and as is
INr ducas.
-
this $14,000
15/2
No.12,
ask.
sir,
In sending to G.P.O. I would ash whether the G.P.O. concurs will the bread Porthracter General that the loss to the Colomer Revenue by the change which has been mad may properly be estrenatal al. $13,000
or $14,000. [that is a comidable summ, unless the Colonice finances
flourishing condition].
ase in
Jaligh
C.PL 20
at once
3628
&
Pre2 3 FEB 19
Government House.
Hong-Kong, 14 th, January, 1899.
38
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch General of the 9th.ultimo on the subject of
the new letter postal rate between this Colony and various
parts of the Empire, and to state in reply to the 3rd.paragraph
of that despatch that the Postmaster General estimates that
the loss to the revenue of the Colony incurred by the adop- tion of the new rate will be reduced by $7,000 or $8,000 by
the exclusion of correspondence from British Post Offices in Foreign Countries from the scheme.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient
Humble Servant,
Aurz adhabe
GOVERNOR, &C.
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.
SC
800.
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