CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861 — Page 186

Registered

No. 87

any further correspondence

this subject, the above

Number should be quoted.

122.

11295.

60.

Si,

RECEIV

5 DEC

1861

General Post Office,

4 December 1867

181

Referring to your letters of the

22nd of December 1860 and the 23rd ultime, relative to a proposal made by the Governor 5 of Hong Kong that the trails for that Colony

should be sorted on board the Packet on the

between

& bozage betizer Singapore and strong thong,

-copy/Boot

and that, in order to effect this, a cherth

the Hong Kong office should be substituted. agent at present employed,

for

the haval

I beg to state that the Postmaster General is not prepared to withdraw the hasal agents from on board the China Contract Packets at present, and that the proposed arrangement, therefore, could only be carried into effect by the Colonial Sovernment incurring the expense of a clerk's passage to and from Singapore on Each vozage, added to the cost of fitting up sorting offices on board the Packets complozedon The China line, amounting to about $100 for each Packet.

Frederie Roger Bart

Colonial office

Jam si

Your

most obedient Servant,

Thre