Office of Commander
Admiralty
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I am to request that the original enclosures in this despatch letter be returned to this department.
RAM.
Secretary
8.688. Hongkong
Copy Govr - 12th August 1871 - 129-18
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Foreign Office
July 29. 1871.
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Lord Granville has had under consideration your letter of the 25th enclosing a copy of a despatch for the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong with respect to the destruction by fire of the "Pereira vessel 'Don Juan'", whilst on her voyage from Macao with a cargo of coolie emigrants on board, and I am directed by his Lordship to transmit to you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, the Under Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs.