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(lunkett), certain questions affecting the trade and other interests of Hongkong in its relations with that great and
rising nation.
I desire, morcover,
to
take this opportunity of placing. on resort my grateful
respect
of the
and attention shown to
me, as the Governor of Hong Kong, by the Japanese Authorities. They pressed me to be the guest of the Government throughout my stay in their country; and they gave
every facility for my journey o
me
in
in the interior; though, for several reasons, I preferred, while at the Capital to reside at the British Ligation. When I had the honour of being presented by Mr. Plunkett, at a private audience, to the
olbikado, his Imperial Majesty observed that it had been reported to him that I had always shown
and hospitality
much con
courtesy
to the Japanese Envoys and other Officials who had visited Houghing on their way to and from Europe,
and that he desired to thank me.
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