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minmediates should we suggest the deniability of the I that folang having

I suggest (writing similarh

the same rater

the Straits) that befon making any further change in the future the two fortishimed communicate with me another, Hagree upon are rate?

Cno

&fcendcopy of this letter J. W. 7.4/10

to for. Akoring?

Mr Johnson

It

See article II of the detailed Regulations attached to the Convention. Ihr Haughong execivalent for 25 centuries of a franc seems to have Juice been raised to ycents of a dokar and now to 10 cents. the proportconch

quivalears for 10 centimes

and

5 centime may be apumed. to be 4 cents and 2 cents respectively. I would not initupore but leave these matters to this Coonial govemment and their sponsor therein vry #ts.ko.

Nr 4/10/94

M. Brannsta

The simply send copy of this letter to for for

inf. & guidance in reps to 14533 £.7.

at one

80.5710

sug.5710

gd. No. 316478.

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14533

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Sir,

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

2nd. October, 1894.

C.O.

17344 TREC [RECE 3 DOT 4

With reference to your letter of the 28th. of August

553

last, in which you transmit a copy of a despatch from the

Governor of Hong Kong notifying the raising of the postage

per oz. on letters from the Colony for the United Kingdom

from to 10 cents, as representing more nearly than the

former rate the normal Postal Union rate of 25 centimes or

24d., I am directed by the Postmaster General to state,

for the information of the Marquis of Ripon, that the neces-

sary steps have been taken for making arrangements as re-

quired by the Postal Union Convention with the Swiss Post

Office for modifying accordingly the Hong Kong equivalent

for 25 centimes given in the Table in Article IV of the

Detailed Regulations of the Union.

No mention is made in the Governor's despatch of the

other equivalents, those for 10 and 5 contimes respectively,

now given in the Table of Article IV as 2 cents and 1 cent.

of a dollar. The change proposed will involve a cor espon-

ding alteration of these to 4 and 2 cents respectively, and, Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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