DRAFT.
Mr George Briggs
B
1386 Hong Kong
Sept 1880.
MINUTE.
Mr. dp
Mr. Reay Sept.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Mr. Herbert.
Mr. Grant Duff.
Lord Kimberley.
In reply to your letter of the 8th instant I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform you that
The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to send a despatch to Downing Street, S.W.
on account of the Peninsula & Oriental Steam Navigation Company from the 19th of ...