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DRAFT.
Sir W. Robinson K. C.M.G.
Hughes
MINUTE.
20.
Mr. Johnson 6 Jan.
Mr. Fidler 6
Mr. Fairfield.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston,
Sir B. Meade,
Earl of Selborne.
Mr. Chamberlain.
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(We) probably wish to say
He has everything!
which pretty
Sie,
C
le pared, passed without reference
to the text of his just received draft, I am not quite
whether I have said
For much?)
I don't think so.
M
I would make the
desp: (except the first paragraph) Confidential
So deny hold
Ew
I think the draft is aged to be
DS 12 Feb. 1897
I have the honour
to inform you
that
Her Majesty will not be
advised to Exercise Her
power of
disallowance
with respect to Ord
no. 21 of 1896 of the
Legislature of Hongkong,
entitled "An Ordinance,
to
appropriate
A sum
Equivalent to seventeen and half per cent of the
Colonial Revenues as a
contribution for the defence
of the informed British territory?
substance of this s