As a special temporary measure the continuance of the present Establishment of the Post Office (with the exception of the 1st Clerk, Mr. Lane) during this quarter, at the expiration of which period other arrangements must be made.
His Excellency desires me to say that he has observed that your Instructions do not provide for the constantly recurring despatch of Mails to the United Kingdom and other places by way of India by the route of Calcutta and Madras, and it will be necessary that you should consider this question and propose a plan for meeting it, to prevent vast public and private inconvenience.
All notifications that you may require to publish connected with the Post Office Department, for general information and guidance, you are requested to draw up, sign and rule, when steps will be taken to have them inserted in the Government Gazette.
Mr. Spring at present in charge of the Post Office will be instructed to render you very assistance, and to make you fully acquainted with the Rules and Regulations that have from time to time been laid down for his guidance; in order that you may point out what alterations they will require to assimilate with your Instructions.
I have to,
(Signed) Richard Graves Macnamara
A true Copy.
(Signed) Frederick W. A. Bruce, Colonial Secretary.