Enclosure 1.
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Harbour Master to Acting Colonial Secretary
Copy
No 469
Hongkong, 29th August, 1890.
8th August 1890
Sir,
I have the honour to forward copy of a letter received from the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in which he informs me that from this date, he cannot accept any further distressed seamen for conveyance to England except by those of the Company's vessels which are despatched direct to the United Kingdom.
The Honre: I. M. Deane, Acting Colonial Secretary.