Secret and Confidential.
C. O.
13140
REC?
REGE 25 JUL SI
197
Government House,
Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.
My Lord,
With reference to the last paragraph in my despatch to Sir Michael Hicks Beach of the 6th of March, 1880, in which having expressed my
Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
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