Hongkong
18th August, 1881
Governor Hennessy
Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Kimberley
With reference to circular of June, 1880 transmitting questions raised by the Harbour Master regarding the Annual List of Shipping and Seamen required by the Board of Trade.
(One Inclosure)
C. & W. Armitage Esqn
Copy of Minute by Mr. Arling, Colonial Secretary
To the Harbour Master for a report
(Request Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary)
6th August, 1881
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Page 219
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I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Алёзни" to "Hennessy", "Popestennessy" to "Pope Hennessy", "fircular" to "circular", "Tharbour" to "Harbour", "Ammal" to "Annual", "Lyst" to "List", "Grade" to "Trade", "Pincinde" to "Minute", "Arling botones" to "Arling, Colonial Secretary", "bol" to "Colonial Secretary", "Irederick" to "Frederick", "bol" to "Colonial", "1928" to "1881"). 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Formatted the text using HTML paragraphs. 6. Corrected "C. & Armitar Aespanh" to "C. & W. Armitage Esqn". 7. Ensured that the file reference format is correct (though there were no file references in the original text). 8. Preserved the original page numbering information ("Page 219").