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Sir
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The Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Limited,
66. Old Broad Street, London, E
24th June 1!!
UN
Treasure
5275
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I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant for
warding.
2-
copy of
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despatch
addressed by the Lords of the Treasury to the Colonial Office in reference to the Company's application to land at Hongkong. submarine Tele: one end of
A
- graph Cable proposed to be laid between Macao and that Colony. In reply I beg to state that the arguments against formal
adhesion to the International
Convention put forward by the Company in connection with the the Tonquin application for landing Cable at Hongkong apply with
in Robert G. H. Herbert H. C. B.
&c.
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