4.
Mr. Antrobus to Mr. Medhurst
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(Copy)
account of the Colonial Government
he authorized
me
to
sound the Chamber
mode of getting
of Commerce as to their opinion of
over the existing difficulty
I shall be glad to know your
or those of the chamber on the subject.
I have Acr
(Rijnen) Mr. H. Medhurst,
this
Sir
British Chamber of Commerce:
Shanghae 9th September, 1861
At a meeting of the Committee
vicios
of the Chamber
on the 7th instant I
Consul
(
Iren Copy)
(signed) M. Middleton.
(Imecopy)
Colonial Secretary.
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had the pleasure of laying before it your
dispatch
344 of the same date conveying
to the Chamber the substance:
Conversation whien
you
of
an
had had with Sir
He: cules Robinson on the subject of the -
Establishment
of a
a Post Office at this port under the management of a clerk from the HongKong Post Office, the Government of the
Colony undertaking to Salary the Clerk if
M. H. Medhurst, Esque,
H. M. Consul
Shanghae.
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