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senior resident or Managing Partner in every Mercantile Firm, by name, Professionals Men and also every Storekeeper in the Colony, by whom it has been seen, and that without one single exception. Shave, He.
(Signed) Granville Sharp.
To His Excellency
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
Governor of Hongkong
Your Memorial of the undersigned
Merchants, Bankers, Traders
and others.
Memorialists would desire respectfully to call the attention of Your Excellency to the very great, very great inconvenience which is felt by the Colony at large from the state of the public roads consequent upon the long continued drought which at this time prevails for six months out of every year.
The very occasional falls of rain during this period are usually preceded by strong wind, the
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