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between Canton and Hongkong has been overlooked. By those steuners will the local foreign Post Offices ship their outgoing mails, which will be made up of the entire cor- respondence of the island. These Post Offices, of which there are three Gorman, French and Japanese are main- tained, not for revenue purposes, but for purposes of national sentiment and prestige, and, apart from having to relinquish out of season the safeguard I possess in the conveyance of my official Correspondence by British steamers, I should with great reluctance find myself
called upon to lend support to a measure which would tend
to close the doors of a British Post Office on a British
Concession.
It must of course be clearly understood that the
above remarks apply solely to the mails for the Batish and
foreign community of the port, and so long as they con-
tinue to enjoy the same facilities as heretofore, so long
will they continue to support and build up the increasing
business of the British Post Office, farning to-day, if I
am not mistaken, a substantial profit - thus contributuing
to a diminution of loss incurred elsewhere.
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