§ Sir CUTHBERT QUILTERasked the Postmaster-General the weight of mails, 1224W in pounds, carried both ways between England and Japan and China, of letters and of other matter viâ the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Suez Canal, Canada, and San Francisco, respectively?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe estimated weights of the mails exchanged annually between the United Kingdom on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand, are given in the following table:—
Route. Weight in pounds of Letters and Postcards. Weight in pounds of other Articles of Correspondence Viâ Siberia … 261,000 88,000 Viâ Suez … 5,000 831,000 Viâ Canada … 1,700 171,700 Viâ San Francisco … 1,900 54,000