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from Hong Kong has been advantageously changed from 9 A.M. to noon, making it conform to the hour of dispatch of the French packets.
9. With a view to averting the inconvenience which has sometimes been experienced here on account of the late arrival of the British mail packets from Yokohama, their departure from Yokohama has been made one day earlier than formerly.
10. The scale of progression of weight having half an ounce for its unit has been extended to letters sent between the British Post Offices in China and Japan, and Manila, Batavia, Saigon, Pondicherry, Bangkok, Labuan, Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Aden, Suez, Malta, and the Ionian Islands; Gibraltar, and Spain and Portugal via Gibraltar.
11. The reduction of the fee upon registered letters from six pence to four pence in 1866, was confined to letters to and from the United Kingdom, but during the past year this reduction has been applied to registered letters addressed to any British Colony or foreign country in transit through the United Kingdom: for instance, a letter addressed to the United States of America can now be registered through to its destination for a fee of 16 cents instead of 24 cents as formerly.
12. In July the outward French mail packets commenced to leave Marseilles every alternate Sunday, instead of every fourth Sunday, and a fortnightly French service was also begun on this side, thus affording, in conjunction with the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, a weekly mail service to and from the United Kingdom; but soon after the commencement of hostilities between France and Prussia the French line was reduced to one packet each way every twenty-eight days.
13. Soon after the breaking out of the war between France and Prussia the difficulties attending the transmission of the mails through France were such as to necessitate the outward mails being sent by way of Belgium and the Brenner to Brindisi, for transmission thence by Italian packet; the homeward mails followed the same route.
14. The number of letters sent between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong by means of the unsubsidized steamers proceeding through the Suez Canal has been very inconsiderable.
15. Negotiations are being carried on having for their object a regular exchange of direct mails between Hong Kong and Brindisi, including, of course, on the one side, correspondence for Italy and the Continent from China and Japan, and on the other, letters from Italy and the States beyond for Hong Kong, China, and Japan.
16. The rates of commission on money orders issued in the United Kingdom on Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama have been increased, and although the commission on money orders issued at these places on the United Kingdom has also been increased, the charges are still much less than those made at home. So far, the revenue derived to the Colony by the introduction of the money-order system has been unremunerative.
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from Ilong Kong has been advantageously changed from 9 A.. to noon, making it conform to the hour of dispatch of the French packets.
9. With a view to averting the inconvenience which has sometimes been experienced here on account of the late arrival of the British mail packets from Yokohama, their departure from Yokohama bas been made one day carlier than formerly.
10. The scale of progression of weight having half an ounce for its unit has been extended to letters sent between the British Post Offices in China and Japan, and Manila, Batavia, Saigon, Pondi- cherry, Bangkok, Labuan, Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Aden, Sucz, Malta, and the Ionian Islands; Gibraltar, and Spain and Portugal via Gibraltar.
11. The reduction of the fee upon registered letters from six pence to four pence in 1866, was confined to letters to and from the United Kingdom, but during the past year this reduction has been applied to registered letters addressed to any British Colony or foreign country in transit through the United Kingdota: for instance, a letter addressed to the United States of America can now be regis- tered through to its destination for a fee of 16 cents instead of 24 cents as formerly.
12. In July the outward French mail packets commenced to leave Marseilles every
alternate Sunday, instead of every fourth Sunday, and a fortnightly French service was also begun on this side, thus affording, in conjunction with the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, a weekly mail service to and from the United Kingdom; but soon after the commencement of hostilities between France and Prussia the French line was reduced to one packet each way every twenty-eight days.
13. Soon after the breaking out of the war between France and Prussia the difficulties attending the transmission of the mails through France were such as to necessitate the outward mails being sent by way of Belgium and the Brenner to Brindisi, for transmission thence by Italian packet; the homeward mails followed the same route.
14. The number of letters sent between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong by means of the unsubsidized steamers proceeding through the Suez Canal has been very inconsiderable.
15. Negotiations are being carried on having for tlicir object a regular exchange of direct mails between Hong Kong and Brindisi, including, of course, on the one side, correspondence for Italy and the Continent from China and Japan, and on the other, letters from Italy and the States beyond for Hong Kong, China, and Japan.
16. The rates of commission on money orders issued in the United Kingdom on Hong Kong, Shanghae, and Yokohama have been incrcased, and although the commission on money orders issued at these places on the United Kingdom has also been increased, the charges are still much less than those made at home. So far, the revenue derived to the Colony by the introduction of the meney- order system has been unremunerative.
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