The Last Outgoing Mails: Business Being Closed The final despatches from the British post office in Shang-rai to Weihaiwei, Chefoo, Tieatsin, Hankow, Ningpo, and other places where British postal agencies are maintained were made en Wednesday. From this date date onwards, therefore, British postage stamps will not be available and any mail matter forward to these place through the B.P.O. with ko transferred to the Chinese part office for onward transmission, as unpaid. It may be well to remind the public that business will entirely cease at the British post office on the 30th instant. This means that the office will be closed, and not that business will be continued under a Chinese staff. The last mail from Tongkong to the Shanghai office was despatched on Wednesday and direct mails from London and foreign countries are no longer received. The despatch of outward mails will continue to all places excluding the agencies in China, up to the end of month.
The issue of local postal notes, payable at the agency offices, also ceased on Wednesday, except in the case of Hongkong, for which note: will be issued payable up to the 30th instant. Cashing of local notes in Shanghai will cease on the same date. The Money Order and Imperial Postal Note (Postal Order) service will also cease at the end of the month. We have been asked. to emphasize that the change is a complete withdrawal and not a taking over by the Chinese post office. Tha postal agencies of other nationality ies have entered into a similar undertaking, to be effective 2s from the end of the year.
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