At the sauce time I think it right to state to Your Lordships that as the Fost office has retablished no Packet communication between Hong Kong and the Ports of Cline, I doubt whether it ways be adorable at prevent to interfere with the arrangements which the Merchants of
Hong Kong have made for
of their conexpondence
With reference
the
Conveyanced
reference to the suggestion
of Earl Grey that.
I made
that Enquiry whether the lega
should be
Crater of Postage
between Hong Kong and China may not
be medely high, I beg leave to informed
underly Your Lordships that the rate chargeable.
such letter is 4. for Each Letter
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not exceeding half an ounce in wright -
proportion; which rate was
and so on in
fixed by Your Lordships Warrant of the
1840. as the charge upor
#th September 1840. as
all Letters conveyed by private ship
between
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between any of ther Majestyp Exleine, and any Foreign Port, with mit pafsing through the United Kingdom; and in my
officion this rate is not too high
I have be
Cruana Post Office
19th July 1847 -
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