The Honourable Secretary of State for the Colonies and in reply to his note of the 3rd instant will return the duplicate copy of the memorial from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce as soon as it has been communicated.
It appears that the original OCR output was heavily distorted. Here's the step-by-step correction process:
1. Reordered and rejoined broken sentences. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "hadur Leentary" to "Honourable Secretary", "Colmie's" to "Colonies", "Buflents" to "duplicate"). 3. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces. 4. The original text was not in proper Markdown or HTML format; the corrected version is presented in HTML as per the final instruction. However, to strictly follow the final output instruction which requests HTML format using `` for paragraphs:
The Honourable Secretary of State for the Colonies and in reply to his note of the 3rd instant will return the duplicate copy of the memorial from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce as soon as it has been communicated.