CABLE NEWS.
[UT KIEOrBIO TKLEOUAFU. — OOPV«IOUT._ IN THE FAR EAST. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CHINA. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, sth April. TJio Maritime Customs Department has established three hundred post offices in China. The postage on a hnlf-ounce letter throughout China has bcon fixed at a farthing. [Hitherto the native postal arrangements have been very primitive, letters to parts of tho countiy other than the treaty ports having beor carried by native runners working under private contracts, and in complete independence of the central and provincial officials. Tho Maritime Customs has long hud a service between treaty ports, and tho municipalities at those ports have had local posts of their own. Tho various consulates have also undertaken a certain amount of postal wuk for their nationals. The Maritime Customs is now to Organise a system of Imperial posts to all the chief centres ot the country.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1902, Page 5
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144CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1902, Page 5
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