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NUMBER OF POST, MONEY ORDER, AND TELEGRAPH OFFICES IN 1904.

Post Offices.

Money Order Offices

| Hongkong :—1 General, i Binnelı.

Hongkong, 1.

Chian:-10 Agencies.

Shanghai, 1.

Telegraph Offices.

STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1904.

INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL REGISTERED CorrespondeNCE AND PARCELS.

International and Local.!

Comparison with 1903.

Description of Correspondence.

Totul.

Despatched. Received.

Total in 1903.

Increase. Decrease.

Insured Letters,

311

244

555

503

32

Bagistered Articles,

237,064

297,391

534,155

472,260 62.195

Ingred Parcela, (via Gibraltar),

3,026

1,505

4,531

4,030

301

Lored Parcels, (via Brindisi),

272

87

359

486

127

Ordinary Parcels, (viâ Gibraltar),

13,096

10,223

23,319

20,609

2,710

Ordinary Parcels, (via Brindisi), .

419

276

695

712

17

United Kingdom, Ordy., (viâ Marseilles),

670

670

697

N

27

United Kingdom, Insured, (viâ Marseilles), ·

144

144

243

49

German Parcels,................ ·

270

1,414

1,684

!

1,457

227

French Parcols,

481

481

639

157

American Parcels, (San Francisco new con-

vention,).

636

1,064

1,700

Kitcellaneous Parrels,...

16.437

14.028

30,465

28,925

1,540 |

Statement of THE AMOUNT OF MOKEY ORDER TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THE Colosy and the UMITED Kingdom, and BETWEEN THE COLONT AND OTHER COLONIES OR FOREIGN Coustuies, in 1904.

United Kingdom..

Australian Colonies,

India and Ceylon,.........................

United States and Canada,

Japan,.....

Btraits Settlements, Borneo, Siam, &c.--

Issued in Colony.

Paid in Colony.

£17,805,11.10

£1,798. 0. 0

Rs. 231,830.14

$5.146.91 13oll

£7,966. 7,11

£21.983.17. 9

R..

107.222.0

817.634.08 Gold

Yen 165,018,27

$47,771.47 Mes,

Yen X-4.013,39

$107,265.31 Mex.