Lund 6.
802
Hongkong
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Colony refusing to allow emigration to a British, on account of its possible abuses,
to sanction a similar emigration
to a Foreign Colony in which
the same abuses must prevail.
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have the honour to be
Sir
Your Obedient
Humble Servant
Hal M[?] Mandoch
The Under Sec: of State
Foreign Office
Mer.
MINUTE. 20
29
31 Jan 1872.
Entered
[illegible]
Sir
I am
[illegible] by the
[illegible] ack ye
the hd 20 Jan/72 Earl of Kimberley to [illegible]
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Mr. Meade 30 fusing
Mr. Holland.
Mr. Herbert Mr. Hugessen.
Lord Kimberley.
7.B? 24 Jan.
the receipt of your letter of the 18th January, enclosing
a note from the Netherlands Minister, requesting that
the Hongkong order forbidding the emigration of Chinese laborers to places other than British Colonies might be relaxed in favor of the Dutch Colony of Surinam.
I am to express Lord Kimberley's regret that he is
unable to advise
modification in the existing ...