Hong Kong 12th November 1856
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I had the honor of addressing you touching the sugars. This Colony has recently passed a retrospective law, under the local legislature, entitled Ordinance No 8 of 1856, the operation of which affects certain property of mine.
Since then His Excellency the Governor of this Colony, in a public letter dated the 1st of this month, has announced that Her Majesty's Government, recognizing the experimental and provisionally stringent character of that Ordinance, has postponed its ratification.
The Right Honorable
H. Labouchere,
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonien.
To
The Rt. Honble
Governor Sir John Bowring
13 November, 1856.
Victoria, Hongkong,
1 Inclosure.
N. 187.
Received
the local Government
his complaint against
contravention of
Scarcity of Plate,
from Mr. Hudson to
Forwarding and Letter