your
Lord ship
beg to hands
copy of further corces-
dence from
pondence
o wo
Rep.
resentative in Chma and
the subject.
I have the honor to lis
Your
my
Lord,
Obedient Servant Estesse
Sunetary
Copy of Letter from
-ative re
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RECP
our Represal.
Telegraphs in Chind
Dear Sir,
193
Hongkong
13th July 1887.
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the th June, and return thanks to you thereford .
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As Ifound Hto Amei, man- ager of the Chinese HongKong-Canton line very crasive and cridently under influrnées, I went to Canton to confer with M. A R. Hewlett, H.MM. Consul,
and Trey-yaon. Kean, the Torrign Secretary of the Governor General.
To both I stated that Ho Arriei was crasire, although one of his reasons for delay has come ralidity, riz: that
official proki - -bition of landing rights he is bound to the Danish Contract for a Cable to connect Hongkong with Kowloon . I may remark, in parenthesis, that the official prohibition was expected' Yesterday by the Colonial Government :
The Viceroy's Secretary said:
until he receives an
that Drict orders had been
given
out the com
to Gine. Pang to carry promise Agreement, and that
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