In Acting Colonial Secretary to Harbour Master:
The Copy N:1521. Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 18 August 1871.
"I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant forwarding in triplicate and unsealed a despatch with enclosures for transmission to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I am to inform...
H. G. Thornett, Esq., Harbour Master, &c.,