C.O. 125
5504
Received MAR 90
No 45.
Government House,
Hongkong, 18.
15th February, 1890.
My Lord,
With reference to my despatch No 251 of the 8th August, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that Mr Ernest Joseph Eitel, having been appointed by the Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, GCMG,
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