Board
Trad
Copy to the Govenor
Mr. Merivale
with instructions.
Lords
Strat
:
In 1991/60
245
My Lords,
General Post Office
26 January 1858.
RECORD
I beg to inform Your Lordships
that, in conformity with the
arrangement proposed by my predecessors
in
a
letter to the Treasury dated
the 23rd April last, in which he requested that the Governor of Hongkong might be told that the Post Office of that Colony would be
handed
over to the control
of
the 10th Nov: following,
Colonial Office
orders
were given that,
the
The Lords Commissioners
of the Treasury.
the
despatch