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Colonial Secretary to Mines Butterfield & Snoire.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Copy)
No 688.
Gentlemen,
Hongkong, 26th May, 1888.
•Adverting to your letter of the 19th instant, I am directed bystis Excellency the Governor to trandust, for your information, the enclosed copy of
Report by the Acting Hautour Master respecting the refucal of the Master of the Steamship Priam to Convey certain distressed British_
Reamon,
and to state that
Commander Rumery cannot do
otherwise than
to his
conform instructions to report the matter
Mess? Butterfield
& Swire
A
to