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Sir,
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 20th. October, 1908.
With reference to your letter of the
17th. instant, I am directed to inform you that the proposal
made to you in my letter of the same date was a concession to a
complaint made by you in several passages of your reply to the
Report of the Registry Commission that you had had no opportuni-
ty of cross-examining the witnesses who gave evidence before
the Commission. Your leave of absence was granted to you on
your own application, and the date of your departure from the
Colony deferred at your own request. His Excellency the Gover-
nor has now no instructions to give you as to your movements.
The Report of the Commission, with your
reply, will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies by the next mail.
2.
*. Norton Kyshe, Esa.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) B. H. May,
Colonial Secretary.