To
receive
all times willing Communications from the Hongkong
Chamber
of
Commerce, and will Consider it his duty to forward the present letter to the Secretary State for the Colonies, from whom it will doubtless receive
that consideration to which its source entitles it..
I have, &c. (Signed) W. T. Bridges, Acting Colonial Secretary,
(True Copy)
W. T. Bridges, Acting Colonial Secretary
Copy
Despatch No. 488.
18/63
Received
10216
3
March
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The Secretary to Government,
Straits Settlement:
The Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.
Singapore, 10th April, 1863.
In acknowledging the receipt of your despatch No. 292 of the 2nd ultimo, I have been desired to state for the information of His Excellency the Acting Governor that one copy of the Notification therewith transmitted will be published for general information in the Government Gazette and another