Hongkong.
CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O.
15973
RECEIVED
Ref 13 SEP 93
512
1502.
Most Honble
My Lord Marquess.
In
Government House 16th August, 1893
my public despatch of this
date I mentioned that I should report
separately in a Confidential despatch
the reasons for which the Colonial
Secretary asked me to excuse him
from presiding
over the Retrenchment
Committee. As those reasons were set
The Marquess of Ripon, K.G.
out in
...