lify ste
Chi
Zea
Considerations justify
Special care to raise the small sum required to keep him efficient. It is not a question which the local Merchants appreciate.
Rutt July 16
347
12282
RECD?
REGO 12 JUL 86
Sir R. Herbert
I have not embodied in the draft your remark about dealing with official documents from Chinese Headquarters, because it says in par. 4 of this despatch, the rule is that "all official communications between the Courts of China and her Majesty's Legation at Pekin or the Consuls by whom they are transmitted are translated".
M. March also adds that Chinese officials "invariably visiting the Colony are accompanied by interpreters", but I presume you mean that it is desirable to be able to communicate with such officials directly, not through Interpreters. I have accordingly inserted the word "directly" in the draft.
Guid. 21 July
Mustus 21
Com. No 182
My Lord,
Government House, Hongkong, 29th May, 1886.
I beg to submit to Your Lordship's decision a question which has arisen in the case of W. Way, who returned recently from Peking, where he passed
Right & Earl Granville, Kly,
Honourable
To
Fo
of
in a
most