CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 308

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Post Office in getting their work done for them for nothing, and I was on the point of representing the matter to Your Excellency....

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your

letter arrA V

arrived.

By receiving Stamped lettera addressed to the for the Fast Office

contracts to deliver them there, and the Officers of this Consulate can scarcely be expected to baske position of some labour and, great responsibility without any

remuneration.

Nor does the Post Offier goin

by its poling ses

a large number of

Letters which, were there a

a regular

Post Office, would bring in an

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revence to the Imperial Governme

are now sent down

vent

privately. and distributed in Shanghais through the Local Post Office there,

Although the Commernicel Community is not very large, the Number of Missionaries, visitors, Chinese, and Shipping swell the Mail matter to a respectable buck, the outward

Award portion of which,

brings in

s in se goodly retiven to the Municipality of Shanghai's. Should Gackt Agency be established,

www.

I venture to solicit that Mr Solbe would be able to attend to it

without detriment to the perform

-ance of his Consular duties

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