Confidential.
SECRET
REC'd
C.O.
225
8890
Foreign Office, May 29
(REC'd 26 MAY 87)
March 24, 1883 -
I am directed by
Earl Granville to request that you
will inform the Governor of Hong Kong of the
despatch which has had under consideration
the two questions referred to in her
Excellency's letter of the 14th of March
No. 2, by Sir E. Thornton
May 11, 1883 -
6911
A copy of which is
enclosed with
this despatch.
The first of
these relates to
the establishment of a
Consulate at Hong Kong,
the second to the delimitation of a
Boundary between China and the
Colonial Frontier
and the
Protectorate