CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 106

for Govemment Dropatches merely the addition of

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the Clostes initials to a Super written in the Govemment office and sent down to the Post Office with those Delpatobies .

its the severity of Requires the

Messengers

and

the climate

of Chinese

in lieu of Europeans,

these chinese make

mistakes which lead to

Despatches being left behind,

the precaution in question

considered

not too much

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the exclusive instance of Despatches for Her Majesty's Goverment . It is universally

adopted

of

this

in the intercommunication the European Merchants in

Country..

I shall however.

not

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not interfere with the orders

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addressed to the Deputy Port

Master..

With Reference to another Despatch connected with the Post Office. Nr 17 of May

12th,

in which notice is taken

of a change

in the hour of

the Mail Steamer's departure

from hence, I have the hover to state that

assent

Avad

my

signified to

mere

proposition from the Hongkong Post Master, previded that the arrangement.

ement did not interfere with the terms of the contract : My

wishes

a ve

oin

always for the carliest possible time of Departure,

and I have, in

Consequence