Sir,
Foreign Office 283
October 19. 1876.
With reference to your
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5th of July and
the 8th of September last,
on
the subject of the privileges of the vessels of the Messageries maritimes at Hongkong, I am
directed by the Earl of Derby to
transmit to
You
to be laid before
the Earl of Carnarvon a Draft
of
a Despatch, which will have His Lordship's Concurrence Food Derby
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
proposes.
I agree.
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