Whitehall
10510 Hong Kong.
Registered No. 1058 X
In any further correspondence on this subject, the above Number should be quoted.
Copy for : No. 72-12 Nov
RECEIVED
NOV 6 1866
General Post Office,
104
5th November 1866.
Referring to your letter of the 1st September 1863 (219/63 909) and to my reply of the 3rd March following, on the subject of the illegal conveyance of letters by the Packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company between Hong Kong and Shanghai, I am directed by the Postmaster General to state to you, for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, that, in consequence of subsequent reports from the Colonial Postmaster General stating that this practice still continued, the
Sir Frederic Rogers Bart
Colonial Office.