DESPATCH.
"steady, diminution of opium".
With regard, however, to paragraph 5 of your despatch, I would draw that it refers to increasing the number of cases which may be entrusted to a Magistrate as a preferable course to that of burdening the Supreme Court constantly with a number of petty cases.
I have, &c.
[C]
Under consideration whether
Governor.
No. 1364
Date.
Trong Trong
No. 13826
(Subject.)
RECEIVED
17 NOV 1877
217
Imperfect state & incorrectness of 1877 Report of Commission on ...
Hong Kong ... transmitted in Sir A. Kennedy's despatch to ...
Last previous Paper of 28th February 1877
No. 1366 .28 .12-77
G
281911
22 Dec
Ans
177 & 8 3137
Extract of letter from Mr. Justice Snowden explaining ...
Mr. Fairfield
(Minutes.)
C.P.d. 20.11.77
Lui.
Another despatch with the object apparently of supporting Mr. Snowden's view in Sir Arthur Kennedy's ...
JM. 21/11
A
It would seem there had been some standing disagreement. The Commission thought ... Six & ..., wanted the draft of their report for the information of the Executive Council in considering certain points under the ... As amended, thought it complete, sent it home as such.
The Hennessy despatch illustrates the incomprehensibility of relying on one man himself. I think every further acknowledgement will be best...
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