A37068
10
533
Hong Kong R.C..
September 5th 1903.
Copy
Sir Henselm C. Digby KCB
Sir
CO 37414
Rece Permanent Under Secretary 12.001 05
White Hall of State
We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 17th July 1903 addressed to Messrs Trass & Taylor the London Agents of Mr. Stephens informing them that His Majesty the King being pleased to give any commands regarding the Petition presented to His Majesty by Stephens & Howard in the matter of the claim of the Acting Governor of Hong Kong for damages to our Hong-Kong Mariner No 184 by the Praya Reclamation Works.
In view of a previous letter from the State Secretary's Office B.37068/6 under date 14th April 1903 written by direction of the Secretary of State, we do not understand why His Majesty has not been pleased to give any commands regarding our Petition, inasmuch as that Letter informed us that the Secretary of State had been in correspondence with the Colonial Department on the subject and that the case did not appear to be one of Petition of Right as there was no matter for...