Boundary and especially of the Matted city of Kowloon.
It appears to me therefore that there is so little probability of the Consuls being applied to for British Passports by duly qualified persons in Hong Kong or Kowloon and such a total absence of any demand on the part of such persons for British protection as against the Chinese Government that, as far as this Colony and its Dependencies are concerned, so delicate an experiment is not called for ex necessitate, however much it may be consonant to sound principles of justice.
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(Signed) Julian Pauncefote, Attorney General.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 2nd July 1867.
June:
2362. Hong Kong 2.60. inf? 13 March /67
Anou! No.8-27 May /67-
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Despatch from Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, 4 January, 1867.
In reply to your Lordship's Despatch No.156 of 27th October last, I have the honor to state that there is no objection to the appointment of Mr. Curtis Gerveck as Consul General for Austria, and that
The Right Honorable
The Earl of Carnarvon,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,