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Hong Kong almost simultaneously with the date of Your Despatch. Your Excellency is doubthe he aware that at present there is only single postal Agency in Japan that of Nagasaki, in the charge of a Consular Officer, and I shall communicate a Copy of Your Excellency's despatch to Her Majesty's Consul at that Port, in order that he may direat the Officer of his Consulate who attends to the Postal Service, to

follow the instructions of the, Hong Hong Government, in the performance of that service, as far as is consistent with the

due fulfilment of his Consular

duties._

I have Je

Signed Harry Parkes,

True Copy

Hair (Smitt.

Acting Colonial Seersbury.