Elephant as carrier of mails, 246, 249 Engineer-in-Chief, 267 Engineers, 195, 196 Enniskillen, 284 _Etruria_, 213 Euston, 72, 74, 80, 89 Exchange Telegraph Company, 165 Exeter, 25 Express Delivery Service, 96, 323 Factories (_see_ Post Office Factories) Fair Isle, 220 Fair Wages Resolution, 206 Falkland Islands, 328 Falmouth— As packet station, 209 100 years ago, 210 P. and O. service, 214 Farmers' telephones, 193 Fawcett, Right Hon. H., 85, 262 Ferry mail services, 81 Fiji Islands, 216 Fishguard, 217 “Fleece Tavern,” 44 Flushing, 75, 220 Flying Coaches, 22 Folkestone, 75, 220 Foot posts, 21 Foreign Parcel Post, articles refused, 328 Foreign postal rates, 223 Foreign Post Office methods, 231 Forman, H. Buxton, C.B., 265 _Forty Years at Post Office_, 265 Foula, 220 Founder's Court, E.C., 161 France— Money Orders to, 131 Wires to, 160 Postal methods, 234 Savings Bank, 235 Telegraphs, 236 Parcel Post, 236 Franks, 34 Freeling, Sir Francis, 264, 268, 278 Garibaldi, 41 Gavey, Sir John, K.C.B., 267 Gell System, 166 General Election— Effects on telegraph system, 171, 204 General Post Office North, 55, 67 General Post Office South, 55, 67 General Post Office West, 67, 161 Germany— Parcel Post, 84 Money Orders, 131 Wires to, 160 Postal methods, 232 Post Offices, 232 Ghosts seen from motors, 107 Gibraltar, 81, 84, 214 Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E.— Anglican Orders, 132 Post Office Savings Bank, 138 Home Role Bill telegrams, 171 Glasgow— Early charges to, 32 Telephone, 191 Postmaster, 279 Postmen, 313 _Grand Magazine_, 270 Great Eastern Railway, 75 Great North Road, 22, 32, 98, 282 _Great Western_, 212 Great Western Railway, 73, 75 Greenwich Observatory, 170 Grievances against the Post Office, 330 Halfpenny Post, 64, 320 Harkara, 249, 250 Haroldswick, 80, 81 Harwich, 209, 220 Hasker, Thomas, 24, 27, 30 Heaton, Henniker, 247, 320, 325 Hennibique reinforced concrete, 58 Hill, Sir Rowland, K.C.B.— Penny Postage, 31 As a reformer, 35 Career, 38 His reforms, 39 As a lecturer, 54 Hindhead, 199 _Hindustan_, 214 Hobart, 216 Holborn Viaduct, 75 Holland, 160 Holyhead, 24, 29, 217 Home Safes— England, 154 New Zealand, 259 Hong Kong, 84, 244 Hood, Thomas, 40 _Household Words_, 136 Hughes recorder, 155, 160 Hull, 279 Hungary, 160 Imperial Penny Postage— Beginnings of, 247 Establishment of, 258 Incivility of officials— Germany, 233 America, 241 England, 329 India— Wires to, 160 Mails, 214 Early postal service, 247 Honours, 251 Indo-European Telegraph Company, 160 Insurance, National, 279, 332 Insurance, Post Office, 143 Intercommunication switch, 163, 168 International Parcel Post, 83 Investments in Government Stock, 140 Ipswich, 25, 75