Nr. 93 of 1849.
Inclosure Nr. 1 in Despatch
2
(Copy.) No. 285.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
27 October, 1849.
I am directed to transmit for
your information a letter in
original
from the shareholders of the Hongkong
Club relative to an action pending at
present in the Supreme Court, by which their interests are affected, and to
request that
you will be pleased to
say whether in
your opinion it should take up
the case on behalf of the Crown, as
suggested
by the Shareholders.
It is His Excellency's intention
to forward a copy of this letter to
The Honorable
P. I. Herling, Esq., Attorney General
Letter from the shareholders
of
detailing the facts the Hongkong Club
connected
Mr. Robert Edwards's
administrator of the late
against them by the
with the suit instituted
estate.
5th September, 1849.