Sin,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst., and in reply I beg to say that in order to remedy the inconvenience complained of by the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce, the Council have decided that, the Local Post Office here, shall be opened from 8 to 9 o'clock p.m. for the receipt of supplementary correspondence for the Northern ports, and the Local Postmaster has been instructed to make the necessary arrangements at once.
So soon as these are completed the new regulation will come into force, and a Municipal Notification to the above effect will be published.
have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, James L. Scorr,
A. P, Mackwen, Esq., 1 ake ah Chairman.
Chairman,
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