Adm
Re 267
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Colonial Secretary's Office.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
29th March 1860.
I have this instant (3.30 PM) received your letter with its enclosures.
These it is impossible to forward as you request by the outgoing mail, for not only is it impossible to copy them, but impossible for this Excellency to peruse them before the mail's closing.
In accordance with the rule of the service and with practice (a practice hitherto always followed by yourself) I shall M. M. Farrant.