§ MR. CALDWELL (Lanarkshire, Mid.)To ask the Postmaster General if he can state how many letters were sent from this country to Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, respectively, under the mail contract with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, with the steamer which left Vancouver in connection with the mail leaving London on 8th January last; the total weight of the mails which left this country by the same mail for Japan, Shanghai, and Hong Kong respectively; and when the mails which left this country on 8th January last are due at Yokohama, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I am only able to give the required particulars in regard to the mail for Japan made up in London. That mail is estimated to have contained 8,110 letters, and the total weight of it was 4,715 lb. Only a small amount of correspondence for China and Hong Kong is forwarded, by the Vancouver route, and particulars of that despatched on the 8th of January last have not been recorded. The mails sent on that date were due at Yokohama on the 9th of February, at Shanghai on the 14th, and at Hong Kong on the 17th of February.