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"ow all matters Convected birth their
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"Governmento ;" and theat "Every Communication to whatever public. "Department in England it may
more immediately relate, must,
in the first-instance, be addressed
It would
to the Secretary of State. seems to follow theat correspondence.
addressed to a Colony from one of the other departments in England, should pass through the Colonical
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epartment, Yet danoinformed theat
ow some occasions, the Foreign Office in Londow has (it is presumed, through inadvertence; ) corresponded: direct with the Chamber of Commerce
in
Hong Kong, thurs ignoring the
Colonial
Colonial office.
7. It is generally felt by well-
be here that, wittee
- informed people
interests of the mercantile Community
and of the Chamber of Commerce
at large, and.
itselfs
it would be better that its
Correspondence with our Minister at
Peking should pasotteroughs
the
-regular channel, for when the proposals of the Chamber inconsistent with the policy of the
the Chamber are reot
Colonial or
2
the Imperial Governments
the support of the Governor would
add great weight to them bothe
1 with the British Legation and withs the Clunese Government.
8. It has also been observed that)
the