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found to be due pom the Colony towards the cost of the Eastern

Mail Service .

Mer Lister's extimate of the annual amount due from Song Kong for the three years suded on the 31st of January 1883 was,

apparently, based upon sum of £2,735 mrutioned in letter from the Post Office to the

arr

average

Treasury 1884 as the yearly. sum contributed by Hong Kong, prior to the let of February 1880,.

1880, as the Eglonial

dated the 16th of May.

share of additional loss caused

by the reduction of portage. the sutry of the Colony into the

Postal

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>

Postal Union.

But it was stated in the

letter referred to that this sum

average

of £2,735 represented the a amount contributed by Hong, long prior to the 1st of February. 1880, no later returns having been prepared, so that that sum should not have been regarded

as the absolute total amount.

payable after the date named,

inasmuch as no allowance

could then be made for the

falling off in the receipts owing to the reduction of postage from 6th to 5d on the 1st of February

1880

This