I am to request

that H. M. Charge

d'affaires at

Peking may

be

instructed to

furnish the Govt

of Hongkong

with a

copy of regulations under

which this service

is to be worked,

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Hong

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58. Curzon St. Mayfair-

19th October - 1871.

Further to M:84-15 June 1872-

whenever they

may be communicated

to him by the Chinese Govt.

16th July

In reply to yours of May

Earl Kimberley's

instructions to investigate and report on the expediency of decreasing the salary attached to the office

of Crown Solicitor, I have thought it

desirable, being in full possession of all

the information bearing on that subject

to lay at once before His Lordship the

result of my consideration on the matter.

I must therefore frankly say

that I entirely agree

with Mr. J. Parfitt

in his Memo.

of the 31st July, a copy of which I have

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the other papers relating

to the subject.

A note that the dispatch

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