CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 316

dollars ($200) per annum, and

-old

for

Joan learn, the transfer

of the Post Office from the Imperial to the Colonial, Government will,

fo

difference in the tenure of the Office or its duties which are simply to despatch and receive the daily Mails at d'è' alock in the morning and about 3

in the afternoon, and do not conflict in any way with the efficient discharge of the Consular duties

properly belonging to the

more

Officer engaged.

Ibey also to say that I consider the existence of

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Post Office service both expedient

and necessary, as, amo ngườ other arguments that could be adduced in its favour, I may

mention that without

povid

Agency of Hong Kong I could neither send nor receive despatalies to and from Your Rexallering if the Office

was suppressed and even then that would be no w

-Security for the delivery of a Mail at the Colony or here, and all the residents at this Port would be more or less in the same position .

I may add that

the

st Office Agency is in Her