improvement in the mode of procedure, the papers will be sent to the Secretary of State; but HE is unable to obtain the prisoner pending such reference, so far as the charge in question is concerned.
I have &c.
50 Frederick Newark
Acting Colonial Secretary
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Caldwell & Wilkinson
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50, Queen's Road, Hong Kong,
20th September, 1887.
The Honourable J. Stewart, LL.D.
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 147 of this date.
We have the honour to state, for the information of H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, that we have, under instructions, and upon advice of Counsel, filed in the Supreme Court of Hongkong a Notice of Motion asking for a Rule calling upon HC to show cause why the prisoner Chan Fik-Cheung alias "Thing Tam" should not be delivered to the Chinese Government on ...