HC Deb 31 May 1894 vol 25 c8
MR. HENNIKER HEATON

I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that at the British Settlement and Treaty Port of Tien-Tsin, China, the English inhabitants have no postal arrangements provided for them; whether he is aware that the Germans, the French, and the Russians have Post Offices there; whether 90 per cent, of the whole mail matter of the Settlement is British, and the trade with Great Britain and her Dependencies amounts to several millions sterling annually; whether he is aware that the British mails which now arrive at that important Treaty Port of Tien-Tsin are now handed over to the German Post Office there for distribution; and whether he will at once communicate with Hong Kong regarding this grievance?

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY,) Nottingham, E.

Tien-Tsin is a Treaty Port, and not a British Settlement. The question of the establishment of a post office there is one for the consideration of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.