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APPENDIX A. LIST OF SUBJECTS FOR CONSIDERATION. MINISTERIAL. Postal. 1. Exercise of vote and representation at Postal Union Congress. 2. P. and 0., and Orient Contract, 1895. 3. Fumigation of Mails at first Australian port, at joint expense. Telegraph. 4. Consideration of continuation of guarantee with Cable Company. 5. Report from Committee re Electric Light and Tramways. 6. Hour Zone Time. DEPARTMENTAL. Postal. 7. Postal Union— (a) (1) Newspaper rates, and (2) printed paper rates to the United Kingdom. (b) Proposal by Italy, paragraphs 3 and 4, Article 19, Regulations, as to deterioration of articles sent as samples. (c) Proposal by Italy, Article 16, Convention, subsection (a), re transmission of coin, &c, also alteration No. 2 of paragraph 3, same Article. (d) Proposal by France, Article 16, Convention, paragraph No. 1, subsection (a), re manuscript correspondence in commercial papers, &c. (c) Vote required re proposition by United States concerning articles of natural history. if) Correspondence re fraudulent stamps. (g) Proposal by Holland, subparagraph (m), Article 18 of Regulations, re requisitions to libraries. (h) Proposal by Italy, section 3, Article 11, Convention, and section 3, Article 6, Regulations re " open sea" letters. (i) Proposals by France and Russia, paragraph 4, Article 18 of Regulations, re writing on newspaper cuttings. (j) Article 9 of Convention, and 30 of Regulations, re correction of address. (¥) Commercial papers, articles grouped together. (Article 20 of Regulations.) (I) Surtaxes. (Article sof Convention.) (m) General Statistics (simplification of). (n) England to continue to pay for actual weight instead of according to statistics. (6) German proposal re Tientsin. (Article 38 of Regulations.) 8. India —Limit- of size, &c, book-packets and sample packets. 9. Indemnity for loss of registered letters. 10. Acknowledgment of receipt — (a) Procedure—if not paid for, &c. (b) G.P.O. of each Colony to act as intermediary for transmission of. (c) Suggestion by France re treatment of. 11. Intercolonial Convention (Draft). 12. Parcel post — (a) Transit rates (sea). (b) Transit rates (land). (c) Extension to New South Wales and United tates of America. (d) Collection of Customs duties at every parcel post office. (c) With United Kingdom. (f) Without names of senders (unclaimed). (g) Insurance (rates, &c). (7j) Postal Union system (intercolonially). 13. Express postal delivery. 14. Letter cards. 15. Sending unmarked stamps to Berne. 16. Reconsideration of packet rates. 17. Uniformity of statistics in Annual Postal Reports. 18. Telegraph money orders. 19. Classification of intercolonial correspondence on union lines (book and packet post). 20. Intercolonial letter bills (to be retained at office of destination). 21. Verification certificates (intercolonially). 22. System of surcharging (intercolonial, francs and cents). 23. Commercial papers, printed papers, and sample post (intercolonial). (a) Detention when unpaid, &c. (b) Extension of weight and dimensions. (c) Inland sample rate on ordinary articles (extend intercolonially). (d) Samples