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with Sir Michael Hicks Beach's support, I put a stop to in 1878, and looking to the perfunctory manner in which the examination of Chinese Emigrants to Australia has been conducted in Hongkong, I think it is not desirable to discourage the publication of such records as I directed to be printed.
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Some I trust Your Lordship may do me the favour of looking again through the printed papers question and reconsidering paragraph 6 of the despatch N. 145 of the 15th of November, 1881.
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I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,