CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 253

In 1863 Hongkong

contributed and

allowance of $1,200 in aid of Imperial

salary to the Packet Agent at Shanghai.

On the 1.5% of March, 1868, the.

manage

ment of the

of the Post Office Agencies

in China and Japan.

transferred to

the Colonial Government, the Imperial Post Office contributing ausually the sum

of

£1, 170, being the equivalent of the salaries

of

the several Agents, £100 to the blongkong Postmaster,

and a further of £100

her en

for travelling expenses for occasional personal

inspections.

In

Jr. 18.

1880 the Agene

e Agencies

ies in the Port

Ports of

Japan

were closed, in consequence of the Japanese Government having established

their own Post Offices, when the contribution

from Imperial Post Office

to £210 or $3888, per

of this cum

vas reduced

£100

being paid direct to Mifister,

the Costinadev Gjeneral, London) . The balance.

(£710) is credited.

or to his Agent in

of

this contribution

1 monthly to the Colony

in

252

in the account,

int rendered by the Post Office,

and appears in our Colonial Extimate=

"the heading of

under the

page 7.

" Reimbursements","

(Signed) J.M. A. Silva,

1th Audit Clenk.

26th July, 1889.