CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12] — Page 505

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pointed out the public inconvenience:

that would be occasioned

expressed intention

if the

of the Japanese

Postmaster. Generals do

transmission.

on

کا

stop

the

the said Mails

of the

next were

the 100 of January m

carried out.

I beg to encloses copies of the correspondence which has ensued, consisting of two Despatches

hes addressed

by me to the Minister for Poreign

Affairs,

and two replies,

the last

" which I have only just

of who

received

It will be seen that

the arrangement suggested by the

Mnited States Minister

Minister is that

the Jepanese Government should

agree

that a Postal Agent of the United States should be permitted

to control as

heretofore the

transmission of Mails between

Yokohama and

Wongkong, according

to the Postal Convention concluded

by the Colony with the Mrited.

a final arrangement

States, until a

can be arrived at.

The difficulty appears to

have been occasioned)

ommission

of

by the

the United States

Government to

notice to that

the

necessary

o give of Honghang,

and)

I trust that it will be met to

your satisfaction by the above

arrange

angement, if it should be:

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