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with

a cor

covering

letter from

the Postmaster General.

12

2.

The necessity of

increased Post Office

accommodation was

fully

recognised by Sir William Des Vœux, but the project,

which was under consideration last autumn, had to stand over until other works which were considered of pressing nature were "disposed of.

a move

3.

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The arrangement

sorting at sea the mails carried by the Messageries Maritimes steamers, referred

the 6th paragraph of

to in the 6th,

the Report, has, I regret to

say,

not received the

sanstion of the French

Postal Authorities at home.

4.

The action of the

French Government

is

probably due to the termination of the Postal Convention of 1856 between

England