As we briefly announced few day: ago, the Hongkong authorities have decided to close the British Post Office at Tientsin at the end of this month.
The " Peking and Tientsin Times" describes this decision ax "not only inconvenience of the gravest kind, but serious financial loss to the community It asserts that if the proposal is carried through, it will mean that private and business mail matter which for the past year has come to port under the penny postal regulations will, for three months, come to the recipients " surcharged to the hilt with both the foreign and domestic rates of the Chinese Inperial Post, doubled by penalty." The same paper understands that the local branch: of the China Association, and the Chamber of Commerce are taking the matter op wannly. Representations are said to have been made to the British Minister and also to the Hongkong office.
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