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Foreign Office
March 8-1889
261
Sir,
am
directed by
the Marquis
2963. of Salisbury to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, inclosing copy of a further despatch from the fovernor of Hongkong on the subject of the inconveniences arising from the privileges granted to French,
mail steamers under the Portal Convention of 186-6.
The Under Secretary
of State
Colonial Office