be used on behalf of any individual, nor indeed that it should be needed at all, except in order to secure, should it be possible, that British merchants generally have fair play in the matter.
I have to refer to a letter from P. Ryrie, Chairman...
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Hong Kong, 12th November, 1856. Hong Kong Registry
We have become acquainted with the terms of the reply, dated 11th instant, which the majority of the British members of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have made to your letter of September last.
We were transmitted, for the consideration of the Chamber, copies of a circular letter from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies and Foreign Affairs, dated respectively 9th March and 4th March, 1886, inviting suggestions as to what greater measure of support might be afforded by British Representatives abroad to British trade.
The reply of the Chamber, or rather that of the majority of the British members of its Committee, to the latter part of which...
The Honourable Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary...