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community of one of the channels of transmitting correspondence

hitherto

open

to them would

seem calculated to promote

scarcely, that object

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The stoppage of the fortnightly

transmission

of

Yokohama and

Mails between.

the Pacific Mail Steamers would

probably not seriously affect the

foreign places,

d'orrummunities

ao

they

of those

would still retain

weekly opportunities of

convrnunica

nunicating) by) the British

and French Mail Packets, but

if no useful

be

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sary) object stop

assigned for this

it is obvious that it's sudden

adoption

will not add to the

Dew

Postal

popularity of the

Administration of Japan.

Mr. Mayoshima proposes

احسه

in

his Despatch to the Postmaster General of Houghing to replace

by a

a Convention to be made

between the Colony and Japan

the Convention now

existing

between the Colony and the

Mnited States, beet the Government

of Wonghong justly point out

that inasmuch as

this is the.

first intimation which they

have received)

of the supposed

termination of the existing) -