CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 261

260

Registered No. 7.24 V

any further corre Monding

on this subject, the above Number should

カカ

18

quoted

General Post Office, London, 31 October

187.

for?

? Conson No. 50-13 hor? 1870.

Ewen & 26 May 1871-5033

I am directed by the Postmaster General

Frauen

zou, to be laid before the Earl

44

of two despatches from Her

Consul at Manila, which have been weeived through the Foreign Office, complaining of the high rates of postage levied on corresponding between the Philippine Islands and Hongkong And the United kingdom, respectively.

Iales forward copy of the reply which has been made by the Marquis of Hartington to the Foreign Office.

As regards the local

correspondence

between

Hongkong and Manila, the postage beised in

Hongkong is, as you are aware, fixed by the

Frederic Rogers

Bart:

Colonial Office

Colonial