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No 332
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
14th April, 1860
I have to acknowledge your
letter of 11th with Explanatory Postscript
dated this morning.
His Excellency The Governor declines to forward any
documents to
the Colonial Office in respect to which the well-known rules of the service have not been complied with, and it is quite out of his power
to offer any comments on
papers alleged to have been forwarded by
Mr William Farrant.