No. 11
Dir.
of your
Colonial Department
Government House, Victoria,
Hongkong, 20th May, 1894.
213
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 17th instant, enclosing copy of the same date of Mr. Bates,
the answer of the
the Post Master to your application for the usual gratuity for the conveyance of the
Mails from Bombay in Her Majesty's
Steam vessel under
your
Command.
In reply, I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor in Council to say
that the Post Master's instructions seem
to justify him in declining to pay any
gratuity on the British mails. Should you,
however, feel disposed
to dispute his decision, His Excellency conceives that the proper
Commander Maitland R. N.
course will be
to ...