Registered
No. 87
any further correspondence
this subject, the above
Number should be quoted.
122.
11295.
60.
Si,
RECEIV
5 DEC
1861
General Post Office,
4 December 1867
181
Referring to your letters of the
22nd of December 1860 and the 23rd ultime, relative to a proposal made by the Governor 5 of Hong Kong that the trails for that Colony
should be sorted on board the Packet on the
between
& bozage betizer Singapore and strong thong,
-copy/Boot
and that, in order to effect this, a cherth
the Hong Kong office should be substituted. agent at present employed,
for
the haval
I beg to state that the Postmaster General is not prepared to withdraw the hasal agents from on board the China Contract Packets at present, and that the proposed arrangement, therefore, could only be carried into effect by the Colonial Sovernment incurring the expense of a clerk's passage to and from Singapore on Each vozage, added to the cost of fitting up sorting offices on board the Packets complozedon The China line, amounting to about $100 for each Packet.
Frederie Roger Bart
Colonial office
Jam si
Your
most obedient Servant,
Thre