CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873 — Page 558

for the plot is stated to he vary

& would themfund

Valuable

pultimiinfetch a large tum if sold

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Registered No...

2679

f any further correspondence on this subject, the above Number should be quoted.

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527

RECEIVED

26 MAY 1873

553

General Post Office, London,

23 May

draft

attachers

7876.

Sir,

In reply to your

letter

of the le

6th

instant, I am.. directed to acquaint

you, for the information of the Earl. of Kimberley, that as this Department | has delegated to the Governor of trong động the British Postal arrangements

the entire control.

over

in

china, the Postmaster General hardly sees how he could with propriety

take

office

urging the Foreign

any part in urging

ар

the Treasury to cede to the

Colonial Government, at a nominal rent, the plot of ground at Shanghae

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