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one
the
-further specific engagements part of Her Majesty's Goromment for expediting the Portal
communications with the East. to much has already been : satisfactivity affected as regards
the main line of steam: communication, that individual
interferice, or the arrangements
of Merchants
among
themselves,
left to supply partial
might be left
extensions er ramifications; and I observe in the public prints
one
the
expression of
intention
on
part of the Oriental Steam-
Company to employ
one
smaller vessels beliveen Shanghai
of their
their
and Hongkong
The fact of
this Colony being the actual..
terminus of the great Goverment
line is
circumstance in it's
faver which I am not
to see attered.
I beg to
this Despatch a deply which I received from the Hongkong
Post Office, to
for
returns of
application
the amount of
correspondence between the China Forks and Great Britain,
I have the honor to be,
With the highest despect, Air.
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
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