No.
393.
CO
38952
REP REGS 21 FC 10
439
Me
123407/06,
Government House
14th. November, 1910.
sir,
With reference to the correspond-
-ence ending with Lord Elgin's Confidential Despatch of
ob, the 4th. July, 1906, and to the enclosed printed paper on
the Eastern Mail Service which was laid before Legislative
Council in connection with Financial Minute No. 13 of 1905
and which shows calculations of the proportion of the
subsidy to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company payable by several parties interested, I have the
honour to draw attention to the item of £600 hitherto pay-
-able by this Colony on mails from Hongkong Agencies in
China (prepaid in Hongkong postage stamps) for sea postage
at Fostal Union Fates on Colonial Mails charged in the
division of cost against the United Kingdom (vide Table
appended to the Award of Lord Balfour of Burleigh dated
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WIS MARCOIEVE
800 - *
M.P..
&C...
&CC
21st.