the apperial of the Chief Justice who only objects to a great diminution of the value of shares, but when in the last discussion it
was
printed out
that he could propose an amendment fixing
an
(a minimum)
limit, he would not listen to
that.
1
+
Mr Grantham being
now
at the Colonial Office may be able to
give Your Lordship
a better notion of the opposition
to these Ordinances than I can
and
in a short Despatch,
possibly do. If after such further information Your Lordship feels
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able to recommend Her Majesty's
confirmation of Ordinance
No. 4 of 1876, a telegram to that effect would confer a great favor on the Company which has been striving in its efforts to obtain
the power to subdivide its
shares.
0.1.
I have the honour to be,
"My Lords,
Your Lordship's most obedient
and
humble servant
Ashenden(?) Kennedy(?) Gurner(?)
[illegible text removed: "له"]
writing
This Despatch