CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5] — Page 339

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526

Sub-Enclosure 1.

(Copy.) M2 Kopech to cur

Sin

Houghong, 25 May, 1886.

I have the honour to inform you

336

that

the Chinese Government, having resolved to extend the Customs Postal Service to all the

Treaty Ports, as a first step towards the establishment of a

National Post Office, I

have been appointed Postal Commissioner by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Customs, in order to make the preliminary arrangements for the introduction of the

new

system.

As the extension to all the open ports of the Chinese Postal Administration will with the necessity of maintaining the branches of the Hongkong Post Office, and other foreign postal agencies

do away!


The Hon'ble Alfred Lister

Postmaster General

Hongkong

established.

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526 Sub-Enclosure 1. (Copy.) M2 Kopech to cur Sin Houghong, 25 May, 1886. I have the honour to inform you 336 that the Chinese Government, having resolved to extend the Customs Postal Service to all the Treaty Ports, as a first step towards the establishment of a National Post Office, I have been appointed Postal Commissioner by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Customs, in order to make the preliminary arrangements for the introduction of the new system. As the extension to all the open ports of the Chinese Postal Administration will with the necessity of maintaining the branches of the Hongkong Post Office, and other foreign postal agencies do away! The Hon'ble Alfred Lister Postmaster General Hongkong established.
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526 Sub- Enclosure 1. Lister (Copy.) M2 Kopech to cur Sin Houghong, 25. May, 1886. I have the honour to inform you 336 that the Chinces Government, having resolved to extend the Customs Postal Service to all the Treaty Ports, as a first steps towards the... establishment of a t National Post Office, I have been appointed Portal Commissioner by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector Jeveral of Customs, in order to make the preliminary arrangements for the introduction of the trew eystein. As the extension to all the open ports of the Chinese Postal Administration will with the uccessity of maintainin the branches of the Hongkong Post Office, and other foreign postal agencies do away! The Hon'ble Alfred Lister Postmaster General Hongkong extablished.
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526

Sub- Enclosure 1.

Lister

(Copy.) M2 Kopech to cur

Sin

Houghong, 25. May, 1886.

I have the honour to inform you

336

that

the Chinces Government, having resolved to extend the Customs Postal Service to all the

Treaty Ports, as a first steps towards the... establishment of a t

National Post Office, I

have been appointed Portal Commissioner by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector Jeveral of Customs, in order to make the preliminary arrangements for the introduction of the

trew

eystein.

As the extension to all the open ports of the Chinese Postal Administration will with the uccessity of maintainin the branches of the Hongkong Post Office, and other foreign postal agencies

do away!

The Hon'ble Alfred Lister

Postmaster General

Hongkong

extablished.

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