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the public meeting subsequently dealt with, was made Known to the Secretary of State
by
the Governor in October 1878, and the Governor
promised to forward the result of the
Committee's
with some
further
investigations Despatches from himself on the subject. All now been done; and within the next
this has
few months the decision of the Secretary of
on the
State will no doubt be received
various important points raised in the resolutions of the public meeting of the 7th of October and in a letter of the Chinese ellerchants of the 5th of November addressed to the Secretary of State.
8thellay, 1879.
(signed) I. Pope Hennessy/.
elly dear Gibb,
Government House, Honghong, 10th allay, 1879.
As I sent you
Memorandum to do what you
it, you
papers.
was
can
, if you wish,
give
the
liked with
it to the
The address of the Chinese Shopkeepers
and
of the 29th of October 1878 republished in the Garette (it had been already printed a few months
in the Honghong Shanghae papers) because it is sustomary to gazette any
address to the Sovereign that
ago
Her ellajesty has been pleased to receive at the time that the Sceretary of State tells