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the new
Subsidized Pacific Steam Company.
Mt Currie had arrived here by the first
steamer of that Company - the "Colorado” viâ
Yokohama from San Francisco
on
the 31st
a
passage of 30
days.
He
Ultimo after
stated that he had been dispatched in
such a hurry from Washington that he had not been furnished with any regular Credentials from the United States Government. I have
the
no
doubt however that duly appointed to make the
arrangements to which he alludes.
Z.
a
As he verbally made to me proposition which I considered worthy
of consideration by other Majesty's
suggested
put it in writing and undertook to
Government I
that he should
transmit it to Your Lordship with a
view to
enabling
immediate action to be
taken thereon without further reference
to this Government.
Enclosure 1. 3.
I
now enclose Mr burrie's
proposal,
which recommends itself by its extreme
simplicity, and amounts to this: that, if
the
Hongkong
Post Office will undertatte
to deliver letters and newspapers carried
by the new Steamers, at
Hông rộng
and
other Porto in bhina South of Shanghai
(Ningpo excepted), the United States Government should undertatte to letters and newspapers from Hong Kong
to carry
to and through the United States. as far as the boundary of the latter - free of all charge, this Government receiving
the