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Registered No. Gl. A

Any reply should bear this number,

and should be addressed :

The Secretary

"General Post Office!!

C. C. 17756

200

REC?

PEGE 10 30T 82

General Post Office, London,

9 October 1882.

Lir

I bey

leave to actte

Cnowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 420 20th of lact mouth, covering copy

of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Gouem

Government

of stong Hong in which he requests to be informed of the full amount to be contributed by that Colony to the Imperial Exchequer

account of the loss of revenue on portage during the financial year 1880 - 81 in consequence of the entry of the Colong into the Postal

Union.

In reply, I am directed by the Postmaster - General to state, G. W. Herbert Eq. C.BP.

Colonial Office.

for