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P.
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hongkong, 30th July 1881.
5
Sir,
The Governor has considered your letter of the 16th instant in which you apply for permission to take legal proceedings against the Proprietor of the Hongkong Telegraph for the publication of an article, on the 12th of July, on the subject of Chinese Emigration to Australia, and the mode of passing the emigrants in Hongkong, the materials of which, you assert, were supplied to the editor by some Officer of the Government who, you think, has abused his position by affording...
Mr. Gy. Thamsett, Harbour Master, &c.