I have forwarded this correspondence to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I have stated that I recommended that Mr Hopsch's proposition should be favourably entertained.
I have to
(Signed) H. H. Marsh
Administering the Government.
Victoria, 2.
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Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.
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Sir,
Government House,
Hongkong, 19th June, 1886,
In reply to a despatch of Mr O'Conor of 5th instant, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I agree with him that, under modification of the present Postal arrangements between the Treaty Port of China and Hongkong, is now under consideration, the proposal to abolish the Chinese Postal Agency at Kiutschin (or Sicutsin, as written in other parts) should not be further entertained at the present juncture.
His Excellency
I have...
(Signed) H. H. Marsh Administering the Government.
Sir John Walsham, Bart.
Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.