Either the Plenipotentiary or Salt Comptroller have expressed a sense of the gravity of the proceedings and objected to an official expression of regret for the note of the offer of reparation to the Cruisers, with persons illegally mulcted of money, 12 beaten.
Equally formal censure to the warning Salt Comptroller is the least reasonable in satisfaction to be expected of the Viceroy.
I have &c.
(signed) R. Alcock
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Copy Govt. info No. 137, 15 August 1868.
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18 AUG 1868
I am directed by Lord Stanley, Foreign Secretary, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, inclosing copy of a despatch from the Governor General of Hong Kong, respecting the appointment of Mr. Keswick as Hawaiian Consul in that Colony, and requesting the issue of Her Majesty's
The Under Secretary of State
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Colonial Office
August 13. 1865