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A general and deep feeling of dissatisfaction has been created in the community by the practice referred to, and in transmitting to you the enclosed Memorial thereon, His Excellency relies upon your utmost endeavors to reconcile the reasonable requirements of Military duty with the natural expectations of the Community, with what is due to general Convenience and Safety.
I have …
Signed & Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary
Refact No 680
Sir,
Garrison Office,
HongKong, 4th June, 1886.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No:262 of the 2nd instant, together with a Memorial from certain of the inhabitants of Hongkong, and transmitted by the Governor complaining of the inconvenience and danger to which they are subjected by the Artillery firing on the Parade Ground.
In reply I have the honor to state that of late there has been a lull in the Artillery firing:
The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary
HongKong