CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 110

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one

the

-further specific engagements part of Her Majesty's Goromment for expediting the Portal

communications with the East. to much has already been : satisfactivity affected as regards

the main line of steam: communication, that individual

interferice, or the arrangements

of Merchants

among

themselves,

left to supply partial

might be left

extensions er ramifications; and I observe in the public prints

one

the

expression of

intention

on

part of the Oriental Steam-

Company to employ

one

smaller vessels beliveen Shanghai

of their

their

and Hongkong

The fact of

this Colony being the actual..

terminus of the great Goverment

line is

circumstance in it's

faver which I am not

to see attered.

I beg to

this Despatch a deply which I received from the Hongkong

Post Office, to

for

returns of

application

the amount of

correspondence between the China Forks and Great Britain,

I have the honor to be,

With the highest despect, Air.

Your Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

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