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Sir

Enclosure 3.

Hongkong

C. O.

12013

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5th June 1894

In compliance with Your Excellency's request, I have the honour to state my views on the subject of the petition to the House of Commons recently signed by a large number of persons in this community.

In the first place a brief history of the petition may be useful in considering what weight ought to be attached to it.

Although the petition has been numerously signed it

His Excellency

Sir William Robinson K.C.M.G.

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