Sin

323

Foreign Office

November 21, 1884 -

C.O.

19921

ED.

I have laid before Earl Granville

19017

Your Letter

of the 11th instant with its inclosures, stating that fines of five dollars each had been inflicted by the police magistrate at Hong Kong on several Chinese boatmen who had refused to perform any work for French vessels.

In reply, I am directed by the Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Office to say...