The Agency of the Hongkong Post-odice opened on the Island " couple or three months ago seensto have met with fair success, The rites, to civilians only, are as of old, Service people paying Hongkong rates, though ws the public use the same boxes fur posting it ix not ensily been how the Postal Agent discriminates, "It is state that this Agency is likely to make wag for n Weihaiwei Peat-cilice, a rumour which it i may not prove ty be wit Above all things our communication should not be axed, wud this six cents per letter t to which the Hong! ditional expense, Chinese Po itself i ly ut. A branch t Office fluuri:
office ix about to be opened on the Isl facilitate the transmission of mails by water. It would be well if the postal authorities in Peking would see their way to raise the status of this office and free us from the for remaining disabilities attuehing to an "inland office," for though the recently published Jist shows Weihaiwei as having been granted steam traffic privileges, some of its mail comes overland still and is charged for accordingly, though—mail carried by the same messenger and delivered through the British post ollie are not sub-Ject to any extra charge. It is cheerfully acknowledged that postal arrangements are changed greatly for the better since your correspondent last sought to ventilate the subject.
We have in harbour at present the View torious and the Pigmy.
9th December.
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