CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5] — Page 387

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

at Yokohamne. And I been able to meet His Sxcellency I should have informed him that on

of

the interview last-

as one

the occasion

year

recasim

between

the Pastmaster General of Stong Kong, and the Committee of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce when I was present of them, I with others distinally expressed my opinion that the los of Letters posted in the English Post office here was due to the practice of not obliterating the stamps on

on the letter ported at this office, an opinion

which is borne out by the

circumstina that since the

adoption of the

new

system of

cancelling the stamps here, this

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fault in the Palil administration has to the best of my

Knowledge,

been completely remedied, and further it was

brought to Mr. Mitchell's notice that letters

ported here at the English Pot office for

transmision by the French Mach,

and which had their

stamp. obliterated here, and which dish not heap through the English Post Office at Hong Kong duly renobch their destination. This fact convinces me that the robberies have not recurred at Yokohama, and this

my

Conviction is

strengthened by the circumstance

EX

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