On this see that the following object shall be borne in mind, and that a further communication will be addressed to the Colonial Office as soon as the Law Officers shall have been consulted on the necessity of Imperial Legislation to give effect to such Privileges in Postal Conventions.
Having regard, however, to the complications which may arise in Hongkong from the absence of fresh Legislation and the frequency of Legal Proceedings in that Colony against the Messageries Maritimes, it appears to Lord Salisbury worthy of consideration whether it would not be prudent to anticipate future difficulties by an immediate Ordinance of the Colonial Legislature, which should secure to these Steamers, while within the waters of Hongkong, the right to...
GR563/205