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assent to its officers receiving from public Companies favours of this kind, which have the effect of saving to the Colonial Treasury a charge which would otherwise fall on it.
3. I have already explained in the above mentioned despatch the reasons why I was unable to approve the proposed mission of Mr Lockhart to Brazil and would point out that much trouble and disappointment would have been saved if you had first submitted the matter by telegraph for my approval before allowing him to leave Hong Kong instead of first communication some days after Mr Lockhart had started.
In conclusion I can only observe that whatever may be done at foreign territory Macao or elsewhere, Her Majesty's Government cannot permit the Hong Kong Government tolerating Chinese subjects to evade restrictions which their own Government fit to place upon migrations.
I take the opportunity of enclosing a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office and its enclosures confirming