The Postal clerk, Mr, Kuo, in charge of the Imperial Post Office here for the past eight months, has been transferred to Chinkiang. His predecessor had defaulted and left the books in bad shape. Mr. Kuo deserves much credit for the way in which he straightened out the affair and rapidly increased the business of the office. Tt has grown in the favour and confidence of the people. The money order department is especially popular here. The Post Office is quite a convenience to us, sends and receives mails daily and distributes promptly. We get Shanghai letters and papers in three days now; under the old system, if we received the same letters in six or seven days we felt quite satisfied. I hope the Imperial P.st Office is here to stay, though none of us would protest if we were allowed to send a whole sheet of ordinary paper for a two-cent stamp.
12th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.