13190
216 Hong Kong
REC
7 JAN
1860
137
"Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade.
White Hall. Jan 7. 1860
at
Board of Trade
BF de
13 Jan/60.
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 9th Sept last transmitting Copy of a Despatch from the late Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong relating to the erection of a Light house on the Pratas Shoal in the China Sea, I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to enclose to you for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle a Copy of Correspondence which has taken place between this Department and the Foreign Office on the object of the means proposed to pay for the erection & maintenance of the Lights.
It will be seen from this correspondence that Lord John Russell will act upon Their Lordships' suggestion that application should be made to...
Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.