Lordship by the Directors of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company Limited and the Agents for the China Navigation Company Limited praying for
an
amendment in the sense
or
indicated of the Opium Ordinance No 21 of 1891, together with a copy of a report by the Attorney General on the points
therein raised.
12.
I fully
concur in
the Attorney General's report,
and
End: 2 19th Decr
1893.
3.
Enclosure 3. 4th Dec! 1893. With one sub-enclosure.
489
and it sets out the facts and the considerations which bear
on them so clearly and fairly, that I do not think it necessary to trouble Your Lordship with
any
additional observations on
the Petition.
3.
I take this opportunity
of forwarding for Your Lordship's
information the enclosed copy of a letter recently received from the Chamber of Commerce "and of
Enclosure 4.
and
18 Decr 1893.
of the reply which I
caused to be returned to it,