CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 199

They desirable One as regards this Office, as it would. enable me to close the principal. Mail on the evening of the 37th, and to give the community the advantage of a supplementary Mail to be made up the following forenoon...

to add that the measure is a

I have to

(Signed) Rhomas Styland,

(True Sopy)

Pat. Maste...

Marnie Officiating Colmial. Secretary

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N443.

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134

Colonial Office, Victoria,

Honghong,

11th September, 1046.

I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of yours of the 100 Instant, accompanied by the copy of a letter No 97% from the General Best Office, London, without date. It is unfortunate for the

Community here, that the Home authorities

Mail

are not informed of the fact described by you, that the delivery of that portion of the við, Marseilles, is a great reliy to this Bost Office

Establishment; as it clears the pigeon

" hotes of ate the paid letters, previously to sorting " those that are unpaid, which latter would * have to be culled out from the bulk of the * correspondence, in the event of one serting

Thomas Hoyland rsqre-

Deputy Postmaster General

Victoria

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