RECP
Sir,
M: Foreign Office
Jane 19.1883.
I am directed by Earl Granville to acknowledge receipt of your letter of this 30th ulties transmitting a copy of a dispatch from the Governor of Hongkong, with other papers relating to the proposed establishment of an Intermediate Court of Appeal from the Supreme Courts of China, Japan, and Hongkong.
In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Governor, that a despatch has been addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject.
I have … to be …
Lord Kimberley
Colonial Office.
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