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despatch and of its enclosures —
which I have forwarded to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at-
Peking.
From these papers
it
will be seen that the Provincial
Treasurer of Canton wishes to
obtain possession of
a
-
of-
one thousand dollars, being $3,000.
Thirty one
the balance
of
the sum collected
by the Jung Wah Hospital
Thing
Committee from subscribers in HongKong, Singapore, Australia
and other
other places
in aid of the
sufferers
sufferers by the great inundations -
year in the Kwantung Province. The ostensible object for
last year
which this money
is wanted by
money is wan
the Treasurer is to construct or
repair embankments to
prevent future inundations. The Tung Wah Hospital Committee. very properly refused to give up
this
money
for the proper application of which
they
Are
responsible to the
subscribers,
ne of whom
anyone of
-might, I am informed, bring
an
:t them in the
action against
Supreme