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Lordship's despatch that the correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office upon the subject will have been communicated to Your Excellency,
but I think it well to enclose
copy of a report from Mr. Tedder; Her Majesty's Consul at Amoy.
The only ports from
which Ishould seek to trouble
the Colony with Shipments of
Seamen
en are
Frochow, Amoy,
Awatow, and Canton - From Amoy
during
the
business
Foochow, the
Deason
at
imer mont
months,
the Consul should be cautioned.
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not to send Men to Hongkong,
!
unless satisfied that there was little chance of securing them a
passages to England or Qustralia,
might be, from
a.s
the
Casa
Foochow; and Goochow itself would.
of
020
follow the
rule.
From Canton similarly
man should be sent unless
the Consul were
Z
salesfied that
he could not be provided with
A
passage from Canton direct .
It is still a question whether the Ports of Formosa will be disestablished or not
If
not, seamen
might on
ta are