བ་མ་ས་གས་ཞེ་ན།
diplomatic relations for the purposes to
which such relations are
CY
whether some
applicable;
specially complicated
substitution calculated to defeat the only object sought be preferable, as laid down by Sir R. Alcock.
The whole tenor of the latter's communication is to the effect that for the most ordinary business of life the Authorities of this Colony, including the Governor, should be regarded
as unfit
to be trusted in the smallest matters
and
he
supports this position with
grave and
a heavy diction of an
extraordinary and severe class. He
mainly relies
on a
despatch of Your
Grace, that relates to a matter of
a very different kind) _ a supposed question
of International Law, but
to my share
in which Your Grace labored at the
time under a
misapprehension
subsequently explained in
& March 1868. No 461.
paras. 4 to 8.
461.8. 4200/68.
As
my
despatch
shows, however, the local Magistrates
here and those of Kowloon will probably
be always compelled by a geographical
necessity superior to any
mere official
rules to hold
mutual communications
and that I stirred.
when needful, I regret
interfering in the matter at all, but I did so
for the
protection to the Kowloon Authorities, who I suppose will now..
be in a
more difficult position than ever. notice of the matter was
My
also the less