CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 266

the disadvantages occasioned by the considering present system, is a matter much to be desired.

Should any arrangement be hereafter brought about, it would perhaps be as well that

it should at the same time be made applicable.

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Letter from Consul Ricketts. Kamila + Earl framville -

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to Singapore,

Do As

to

give people the advantage of

My Lord,

forwarding their correspondence by that route

also at the

same rates.

I have to

(Signed) Y. J. Ricketts.

Inanila

Any: 20th 1870

to Zorn

Jour

a dup: addressed by one Lordship No. 23 of the 11th of this month relative & the state of the communication by post between this and Hongkong, I omitted & evention that according to the Spanish tariffe letters could be forwarded from this direcht Marseilles.

It must, however be observed that letters so sent are

In assailles

for

recessarily detained at the purpose of being sorted, and,

if short haid, are liable to be stopped com

further charge is also, I believe, made on Them

on their arrival at the place of their destination.

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Hence all correspondence from this to

Earl Granville

freat