I beg to request your assistance from public funds for the maintenance of public worship and asking that letter be referred to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. I have now the honour, by desire of the Governor, to transmit for your lordship's information a copy of a despatch, C. O. Supplement W223 of 18th July, which His Excellency has received on the subject.
I have, etc.,
R. F. Blewart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
To the Right Reverend Bishop Raoulde,
Roman Catholic Mission House,
Hongkong, 26th August, 1888.
I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th August, enclosing a despatch No. 23 from the Colonial Office and I am extremely obliged to the Right Honorable Secretary of State for the Colonies for having taken the matter into his kind consideration.
To
How. Dr. R. Stewart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.