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Cop, $93. Sar
Colonial Secretary's Office
26th
Victoria, Hong Kong, 25 September 1888.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter No.
of this date, and am directed to reply that the proposition therein
replied querkette. Portioned Cannot, as must be plain to yourself, be entertained. by
His Excellency The Governor,
I have the honor to be, Sir,
AR. Hudson,
(Argued) W. J. Mercer
Political Secretary.
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22.
Communications, 1 @ 5. yours in reply N. 887,581,693, trine to captain keeper th. &. Acting Surveyor Several in address are numbered 185; that gentleman's in reply 1960s
In conclusion I have the honor to hope that his Excellency will deem it his duty to obtain from the Acting Surveyor General specific replies to the queries set forth in my letters to you of 16th and 19th September, and lay the same before the Secretary of State, who, I venture to anticipate, will not, under all the circumstances of the case, pronounce the queries which called them forth, either inquisitorial or "eccentric."
I have the honor to be,
Your Obedient Servant (Signed) A. Hudson
Copy N 5.
The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary
Sir,
Huttison 328. Lepton han1856.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter N 693 of yesterday's date, in which His Excellency declines to entertain any claim for compensation for any property in this Colony, which he recently caused to be destroyed. This is sufficiently definitive.
I now have the honor to request that His Excellency will transmit to the Secretary of State by the outgoing Mails the whole of my Correspondence with yourself, upon the difficulty at issue,
together with the whole of my Correspondence with the Acting Surveyor General, and that Officer's replies,
the latter to yourself are numbered, including this Communication.
Nr.698. Cry
Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 27th September 1858
I have the honor to acknowledge yours of yesterday: £3 I am directed to say that the Correspondence shall be duly forwarded to the Secretary of State; and that the letters received from you
you are numbered respectively 1,2,3,5 and the last, also, as above mentioned
I have the honor to be, Sir
Your Obedient Servant
W. J. Mercer
Colonial Secretary
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