Barwise to Lytton

I would most respectfully submit for your polite consideration
the question of the transport of Her Majesty's Mails from San
Francisco, California, to Victoria Vancouver's Island, and from
thence to Fort Hope on the Fraser's River, New Caledonia.

Some gentlemen who are in conjunction with me will engage to lay
on large British built Steamers to carry the bimonthly mails,
which shall arrive and depart from her Majesty's Colonies of New
Caledonia, and Vancouver, in time to receive from, and deliver to,
the bimonthly Mails, arriving at, and departing from San
Francisco, via Panama; and would enter into a contract 
with
Her Majesty's Post Master General for that service for a term
of years, should Her Majesty's Government think proper, and
would be willing also at a future time, to make arrangements for
the further distribution of the Postal communication in these
new Colonies.