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Should Lord Carnarvon concur in views thus expressed, Lieutenant General Field would suggest that the proposed despatch to Sir Richard MacDonnell and Major Hercules Robinson should be modified accordingly.
I have the honour to be Your obedient servant,
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cannot be asked to pay more than £160,000. It is clear to suppose that The Colonel would object to build the necessary Barracks, Hong Kong being at fault.
The decision just arrived and to the idea other "restitution" of Kowloon.
Then is to be an additional Marseilles Mail on the 30 November.
M.R. St Magi 250 et b
An important letter adopting rather major fault Hodgson's then there of the Governor.
The Despatch to Sir R MacDonnell must be recast and a copy of this should be sent to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
It is quite clear Governor Sir Hercules Robinson...