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Admiralty
29th July 1872
With reference to your communication
of the 28th July, relative to the official precedence of
Commodore
the Colony
at Hongkong, in that
I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request you will express to the Earl of Kimberley their gratification at being informed that on further
consideration
The Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
of the question
he