portion of the mail brought on by the P. & 0. steamer Rosetta was considerably damaged by a heavy sea that bro! into the mail room while the letters were being sorted on the way up from Singapore. The Hongkong correspondence had been scrted jes, but the coast port letters were lying out, and they were badly damaged by the witer, so much so that a large number have been released from their envelopes and part of them rendered illegible. It is intended by the Post Ofice t> advertise the headings and signatures, where decipherable, with a view to enable claimants to identify the letters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.