Colonial Despatches

I beg again to trouble your Lordship on the subject of the Postal Contract between British Columbia and San Francisco. I arrived in this Country 1st February last for the purpose of endeavouring to carry out this undertaking.

My sole detention at present is in the hopes, and expectation, of being able to secure the Postal Contract between British Columbia and San Francisco in terms of my tender and to which I was led to believe I should receive a favorable reply early this month, for the conditions as originally stated therein were modified and amended to meet the views of the authorities, from whose expressions I gathered, without being binding upon them, that, with the exception of a matter of etiquette with the United States Post Office, my offer would be acceptable and myself and friends considered responsible and competent for the fulfilment of the Contract. May I beg not simply in my own name, but in thatthat of the Colony whose important interests are in the meantime so much neglected and injured by want of regular Mail Communication that you will kindly press this matter to a prompt and favorable decision.