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the subsequent correspondence on the subject
I am directed by
the
Earl
of
Carnarvon to
transmit to
you a copy of a Despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong,
from which it will be
seen
that
no such proceeding took place, and
that the French Consul
at that Port
was
quite
satisfied that on the
occasion referred to there
had been no
breach of
the Port Convention, and
Encl
12th July 1875.
in
connexion, take ref
no intention to infringe
its provisions.
The terms of the
letter of the 10 September addressed
by the Colonial Secretary to the French Consul
were no
doubt calculated
to give rise to the
apprehension that the privileges claimed by the French Mail Steamers would not
be conceded to them by the local Government, but the matter having been referred to the Colonial Attorney General
Mr