force should be fixed, not for communication to purchasers, but as
guide to the person Entrusted
a
with the sale.
An advertisement in the Innes might attract the attention of some Goremment or person in position to purchase, and be advisable to have
a
it may
Recourse
to that mode of making know the proposed sale.
Pending. the receipt, however, of detailed information from the Colony, and of replies from Colonel Pasley (if witten to) and the Government of New Fealand, I think it would Le premature to advertise.
I have to add that the sisbursements at this Office
for
2
131
the
for Machinery and Post- The Hong Kong Mint (fr most part purchased by Dr. Kinder) amounted to £13590:8:9
as shown
by the Enclosed statement, and that the total Expenditure including that sum,
as well
as the cost of Building vetmits,
passager, salaries to
£32,812 4:10.
I have the honor to be,
was.
Jour most obedient servant,
WC Jaqueunt,