In the reply to this Letter the jullowing Number should be quoted.
15.076
78
lis,
15159
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
→ 128
26 November 187 8
I am directed by the Lords
Commipiquers of Her Majesty's
Treasing to state so
to you for
the information of his michael
Hicks Beach, that
They
have
considered your
letter
of the 13th
Treas
丛
Strait
September last, to the effect
that the Secretary of State has
no reasON
to
urge against the
На
proposal of the Hongkong &
Shangha & Bank upon its own
merits, and that it would seem
to him desirable to permit
the Bank to open
He Under Secretary of State
Colonial office
d.
Branch at
Singapore