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Hongkong
No 197
17th December, 1880.
Governor
Sir John Hope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.
to
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Kimberley.
Reporting that the Governor had given a
carte blanche to Messrs. Snowden,
Stewart and O'Malley to deal with Mr. Price's various complaints and that Mr. Price declined to allow the matters to be so dealt with.
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With
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reference to the attitude
assumed by Mr. Price towards the Government,
he is only causing trouble and is likely to injure himself, and on this account
I am anxious to give
him
every facility for withdrawing from a false position. I should therefore be glad if three gentlemen, such as Mr. Snowden, Dr. Stewart and Mr. O'Malley would kindly read his letters of complaint of August
last, as well as the various
papers
and
despatches
connected with him, and
say what should be done. These three
gentlemen are,
I believe, sincere
friends
of Mr. Price, and
they
entertain,
as
we
all do, the highest opinion of him, and
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