My Lords.

C. O.

General Post Office 5637

19 March

RECO

3 APR 1865

APF 67

In returning the inclosed correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, which Your Lordships referred to me on the 9th inst., I beg leave to say that I am of opinion that it is reasonable to require any Telegraph Company applying for permission to land a cable on the shores of this Country or any of the British possessions should accede to the obligatory clauses of the Telegraph Convention.

It is perfectly true, as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury ...

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