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my public despatch, I refrained, of course, from referring to the "confidential" telegrams and correspondence which took place on this subject between
our predecessor (Lord Kimberley), your
and the late Administrator of the Government (Mr Manh). No intimation appears to have been given of the reasons which induced Her Majesty's Government to forbid, some months ago, permission being granted to
the
the Chinese Telegraph Company
to lay a cable from the terminus of their line on the opposite mainland of China to the Colony of Hongkong. This refusal was contrary to the opinion of the late Governor, Sir John Pope Hennessy, and to the views generally held by the European community in this Colony; which considers it to be alike
ous and politic to generous
encourage all action on the part of the Chinese that seems calculated
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