er, and the label proper to the medicine was delivered
without packet or other attachment to the shoemaker for whom the slipper
was intended. Fortunately, upon inquiry being made by the interested
parties, the medicine and slipper were delivered to the rightful
addressees.

The facsimile herewith of a receipt for L20 given by the Trustees of the
Bristol Prudent Man's Fund of Savings recently submitted for payment, 78
years after issue, will be interesting to Post Office Savings Bank
Investors of the present day.

CHAPTER XVIII.

POSTMASTERS-GENERAL. (RT. HON. A. MORLEY AND THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY)
VISIT BRISTOL.--THE POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.--THE KING'S NEW
POSTAGE STAMPS.--CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII.--LOYALTY OF POST OFFICE
STAFF.--MRS. VARNAM-COGGAN'S CORONATION POEM.

Mr. Arnold Morley, during his term of office as Postmaster-General,
visited Bristol, and was presented by the Chamber of Commerce with an
address, worded thus:--"The Bristol Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and
Shipping. To the Right Honorable Arnold Morley, M.P., Her Majesty's
Postmaster General. Sir,--The Council of the Bristol Incorporated
Chamber of Commerce and Shipping are glad to embrace the opportunity
afforded by your visit to this city of expressing their high
appreciation of the services rendered to the state in general and to the
commercial community in particular by the energy and enterprise
displayed in your administration of the Postal and Telegraphic
Departments of the public service. We recognise that in matters such as
are ranged under your control there can be no finality, and that however
excellent our present Postal and Telegraphic arrangements may appear,
your Departments must be quick to discern the arrival of fresh needs
such as our rapidly developing civilization must constantly bring. We
rejoice in the abundant evidence that you have thoroughly appreciated
the absolute necessity for continual advance and adaptation, and that
you are labouring with such zeal to keep the complicated machinery of
the General Post Office up to date and equal to the immense and ever
increasing strain it has to bear, whilst the Council think it only right
to acknowledge the marked and unvarying urbanity with which, at all
times, you and your officials receive and discuss any suggestions for
the improvement of the services, emanating from Chambers of Commerce and
other sources. In conclusion, the Council recognise in your