We have received a copy of the new regulations of this office, which come into force on the Ist of next month, After mentioning the office hours, the ports served by the ofice are detailed, and they include all the treaty ports north of, and including, Swatow, with Nanking, Peking, Pagoda Anchorage, and Taku, Apparently the office will not tuke letters for Chungking or the Formosan ports; whether this is an intentional omission we do not know, but as there is oostant direct com: munication from this by steamer with Tamaui vid Kelung, and the southern ports in Formosa are served by steamers from Atoy, Formosa might, it seems to us, have been included. The tariff is mainly the same as in Resolution VI as carried at the recent ratepayers' meeting, but there are sume additions to it, and the clause in the resolution, making prepayment by Local Post: stamps on ait mail matter compulsory, which was contradicted by the subsequent paragraph, Postage on unstamped matter to be collected from ad-Aressee, on delivery," is omitted. The regulation now reads: All mail matter must be brid (sic)in Local Post Office stamps, any deficiency in postage will be collected from addressee on delivery." The provision for deposit accounts, which promises to be a geext given, and jalati as to the permitted weight, of Another ible for any loss in the mails; but we that compensation was brid to the sufferers by the recent theft of " mail The directions as to addresses are og are the sections dealing with Intions as to registrati is stated, however, what responsibility the office undertakes in the case of registered matter. 'The section as to private contracts is the same as that ed in the resolution above referred The suggesti private letter boxes, especially in the sub-turbs, is one that should be acted on generally,' the present system of the postman handing the letters, ete., to the first boy or coolie he comes xeress, making it somewhat risky for the addressee, and adding considerably to the difficulty of tracing a lost letter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.