7.
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183
3
telegrami.
2.
"Just returned from short visit.
"to Canton reports in previous
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despatches fully confirmed. Warlike preparations active?
a by object in this brief
visit to the neighbouring Capital of
Southern China, which has such
intimate and manifold relations
with Hongkong,
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uas
partly to confer
with
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traffic between.
Hongkong and
Gon
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with Her Majesty's Acting Consul, (Dr Bance), concerning the pending
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of extradition, and other matters
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affecting this Colony; and, partly, to
see with my own
eyes
the state of
affairs at Canton, and on the Chukiang,
or Pearl river, which leads to it.
3.
my
The Acting Consul coneurs
which
between Hongkong
Canton is kept up by a number of sailing
junks, and by two large.
river steamers of
"the American pattern, which perform the
in seven hours, and daily
voyage each way
carry to and fro nearly two thousand passengers.
with
view of the extradition case,
and of the other matters on
we
conferred. I had the advantage
also of much conversation with the French and German Consuls, and
with
""
1:358
See Governor's despatch W: 358 of Decr 31, 1883.