(signed) H.G. Thomsett.
Harbour Master to
M. Groeneveldt to the Administrator
Enclosure Nr 2
3.
13309
7514
Hongkong 19th October 1878:
Referring to the correspondence
had with your Excellency
on the subject of my mission to this Colony,
I now have the honor to inform Your Excellency that there are at present 600 Chinese of different broods in this Colony, desiring to go to Acheen
I declare under power vested
in me by
His Excellency
the H. ! Government that
I. Gardiner, Acting
Administrator of Boughing.
the