NF 13.20.
Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hongkong, 31st October 1863
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt this morning of your letter of
yesterday's date giving
cover to a letter to
Sir Frederick Rogers which with its
enclosures you request His Excellency
the Acting Governor will do
me the favor to transmit.
His Excellency desires me to point out that it is not possible to forward this
letter by the outgoing mail
to its having been sent in at so late an hour,
The Honorable
The Colonial Treasurer,