A long leading article is devoted by the "Central China Post"? to a rule just introduced by. the Chinese Telegraph Administration concerning insufficiently addressed mies-sages. Where, according to this rule, an address has not been registered and a telegram is. revived with apparently an insufficient description of the consignee's place of business or residence, it will not be delivered, but inquiry will be made at the office of origin for Turther information. This will, of course, be done by wire, and will have to be paid for by somebody. The matter has been raised in Hankow by a reply from the Telegraphs to the firm of Charles Monbaron that if the address of Monbaron, Hankow, is not registered, tele grams will not be delivered there unless bearing the full address. Now, the firm of Monbaron has obviously been in the habit of receiving telegrams regularly, and there would apparently be no dubiety about the firm intended in the case of a message bearing no other legend than ''Monbaron, Hankow." This, however, is not to weigh with the Administration according to the notice quoted the rule is to be carried out strictly, no matter how inconvenient the results. Not only so, but these results may well be ruinous, for as the editor of our contemporary points out, a firm at any time may be faced with heavy charges for the telegrams sent asking for further information about the address. It is, of course, desirable and convenient that addresses should be registered; but times occur when the man despatching the telegram has no means
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