to be transmitted to the Earl
of Kimberly.
I have, &c.
(Signed) M.S. Tonnochy
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
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Hongkong 27 December 1881.
Whilst regretting that His Excellency the Governor has not thought fit to grant my application for immediate and detailed inquiry by the Executive Council which I made in my letter to you of the 6th instant, and which I repeated in my letter of the 14th, and for which I appealed to the Governor in Council a third time in my letter of the 17th instant;
I consider it my duty now to submit the observations called for in my duty to
The Hon. M. S. Tonnochy,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
your