Miscellaneous
Offices
209
AEC
Registered No. 70.24
In any further correspondence on this subject, the above Number should be quoted.
Witchall
24 JAN
1863
CA
13 4
General Post Office, January 1863.
I have laid before the Postmaster General your letter of the 12th instant and its enclosures, respecting the detention of the mail packet "Emen" at Hongkong in July last.
Lavi.
It appears from the 4th paragraph of the despatch of the Acting Governor of Hongkong that the reason for detaining the packet on the above occasion is
Sir Frederic Roger
Bart
Colonial Office.
Confidential