fening the damn cx

previously applied for by the foverner in his

in that letter for the

proposed Local Naval

Defence Force at Hughing.

2. Lord Derby

trust

that there will be no

further min

delay in dealing with

this matter.

On receipt

of your letter above referred to in donnary last, his Lordship presumed that this Admiralty would find you

transmit

ал

Forr

to the War Office, as it was received, the

Naval

report which they had been called for from this Commander in Chief in China, and that this

of the armament question would then be

forwarded to zen

last

24th &

forthwith decided;

scow

but

it was appears from ther

A

Enclosed letter from ther

Admiralty, that that

report

was

forwarded

for hack

from Hughing at the and

i

of March last, ayda

Therefore have

lips

four months ago

t

received

3. Lord Hartington is aware that the fovernor

Kaus

of Hongkong has very urgenth pressed

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the

attention of W. M. for the general question of this defence of the Colony, as well as this particular proposal to a local Naval Defence Force, and present state of affairs in China it is unfortunate

and in ther

that

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