Hill to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Having laid before the Postmaster General your letter of the
20th ultimo, I am directed by His Grace to transmit to you, for
the information of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, a copy of
the reply which was received from the Postmaster General of the
United States to the letter written from this Office on the
18th of June last enquiring whether arrangements could be made
for conveying mails to and from British Columbia by means of the
United States mail steamers which sail from San Francisco.

From this reply it will be seen that the only steamship service
in operation north of San Francisco is that to Portland, Oregon.

It is stated that a small vessel runs regularly between Portland
and Vancouvers Island, but of this the Governor of British
Columbia must be well aware.