FO
3064 Hongkong
Inter Sec. of State.
Foreign Office.
APRE
ĮMINUTE
ID 13
17
Desp to
to Sow?
Gutered
174
5. April 1871.
I am direed by the ward of Kimberley # acknowledge to
receipt of your
29th March
letter dated the
inclosing
Coresce
between H. I's consul at Canton.
and the Nongkong Chamber of Commerce respecting the action taken by the Gunboate of the Viceroy of the Kwanting at a place called Pate_hor on the west coast.
Copies of these papers with be forwarded to the Governor of Hongton, for his information,
and I am to observe that when H. M. Consuls are called on to correspond on infortant political subjects with a
recognized body such as the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
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