the duty of Post Office Clerks and it is only his anxiety for the feelings and Convenience of private individuals that induces him to consent to the above arrangement.
When you have perfected your arrangement for the transmission of letters to Macao, it can be published and those who are disposed to do so can avail themselves of it.
I am in conclusion desired to inform you that the whole of the correspondence and documents connected with your Duties will be transmitted to Her Majesty's Government, by the mail that is going in a few days.
(Signed) Richard Kroman
No:168
Thomas J. Scales Esqr
Sir,
Deputy Post Master,
HongKong.
Victoria,
7th April 1844.
Referring to that part of my letter No:1460 of the 15th Instant; regarding transmission of letters to the United Kingdom and other places beyond India & the Ports of Calcutta and Madras and to the verbal remarks communicated to you by Sir Henry Pottinger on the 7th at your interview with him Instant, by which His Excellency led you to suppose (as he himself there did) that arrangements had been made to meet the above object, I am now directed to forward a Memorandum dated this day from which you will learn that the Notifications to you...