It is proposed to send in the Mail for Hong Kong all the correspondence for China and Siam.
It is important that, before a Mail is made up for Shanghai, it should be ascertained that the Assistant in the British Mission at that port, who acts as the Post Office Agent, will have no difficulty in disposing of its contents; and information should be furnished by the Postmaster of Hong Kong with respect to the modes in which the correspondence can better be forwarded; whether any partial separation of letters takes place at Hong Kong before despatch; whether letters for places other than Shanghai are sent in the Mail for Shanghai; and whether the Agent will have any difficulty in making up direct Mails for other places.
I have to report that the Secretary of State for the Colonies may be instructed to write to the Governor of Hong Kong accordingly, requesting an early reply on the several points referred to above.
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