No 8
150
Sir,
Government House, Hongkong, 18th April, 1842.
With reference to your appointment to the Charge of the Post Office on this Island, I have now to forward to you a Paper of Instructions (which will also be published in the Hongkong Gazette), and to request that you will attend to the Charge intrusted to you with the regulations therein contained.
I am directed also to enclose Copies of the two letters that have passed between the Head of this Government, and the Deputy Adjutant General of the Expeditionary Force, on the subject of Mr. Robert Edwards being placed in charge of the Post-Office Hongkong.
Ipoe