With the advantage of being more simple.
I have the honour to evolve a copy for Your Lordship's information. I am disposed to prefer it to any other scheme.
3. The junk masters who have been in the habit of smuggling are now understood to be taking to a more legitimate trade as they have become fully alive to the fact that the Government is prepared in every case to enforce the law of the Colony as it exists in Ordinance No. 9 of 1866.
4. As I reported to Your Lordship in my despatch No. 77 of the 3rd of August, all complaints about the so-called Blockade of Hong Kong appear to have ceased.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant.
Mesheners
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