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Chefoo, Tientsin and Peking, as the large and increasing number of British residents at these places render it only a national right that, providing no appreciable loss be anticipated, they should be given the facility to post in their own offices.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

"The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Table A.

APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1901.

International and Local Correspondence.

E. CORNEWALL LEWIS,

Acting Postmaster General.

International,

Local.

Comparison with 1900.

Description of Correspondence.

Total.

Des- patched.

Received.

Des- patched.

Received.

Total in 1900.

Increase. Decrease.

Ordinary Paid Letters,

Unpaid or Short-paid Articles,. Letters on Postal Business, Post Cards,...

Newspapers, Books, Circulars, Patterus,

&c.,

Registered Articles,

|1,906,350|1,952,160 90,610

53,460

4,002,580

3,544,430458,130

14,020 91,310 1,920 7,510 7,070 2,600 107,220| 86,550 3,720

1,010

138.260

130,410 7,850

2,030

880

19,210 198,370

12,910

6,300

173,090

25,280

716,560 1,555,970, 72,540 185,770 242,890 9,360

7,620 | 2,852,690 | 2,311,580

41,110

J

6,340

Do.,

with Return Receipts, Insured Letters (Actual),..

i

444,360 409,820

34,540

990 153

6,730 107

70

2,760

10,350

7,130

3,420

260

137

143

Local Delivery :-Letters, Circulars,&c.,]

278,720

211,870

66,850

Table B.

Mails

for

from

Hongkong.

Mails for H. M.'s Ships.

Ordinary.

Registered.

Loose

Bags. Packets. Letter Bags. Packets.

Parcel! Boxes.

Bags. Bugs.

Boxes.

Mail Bays, &c., Received and Despatched during the Year 1901.

Mails sent in transit through 11ongkong.

Number of Steamers

bringing Mails.

Arri- ! De- vals. partures.

Mails for

Foreign

Men-of-

War.

Bags. Packets.

Received, 38,303 1,643

1,2087,854

Despatched, 25,873, 1,545 1,050 9,239

3,156 | 2,391

2,332 | 2,535

2,472 !

810

2,448

1,722

18,211

4875,914

6,626

¡

January,

February,

Marcb,...

April,

May,

June,

July......

August,

September,

October,

November, December,

Table C.

Sale of Stumps at Hongkong, 1900 and 1901.

1900. .$19,767.98

1901. $21,677.86

13,762 84

16,080.79

18,297.22

21,944.98

16,495.48

19,623.88

17,741.82

21,031.83

17,722.32

16.818.91

19,272.19

17,687.60

18,993.75

20,932.43

17,940.29

17,529.89

18,561.80

20,281,21

20,024.19

23,611.28

19,032.86

22,157.13

Total,....

.$217,612.24

$239,377.49