JOPY.
No. 236.
720.
7
C.O.
10285
RECE
Red 24 MAR 06,
Government House,
Hongkong, 5th, Decembec, 190209
sir,
wita reference to your lauter No. 883 of the
24th. November last addressed to the Colonial Secretary requesting
assistance in furnishing full particulars of the situation develop-
-ed between the Viceroy, the National Bank of China and kr. Bung
Wa Chúa on account of the seizure of coal by the Viceroy and to be
informed as to Mr. Bong Wa-chún's status as a British subject, i
have the honour to enclose copy of a letter from Mr. G. 0. Moxon
Managing Director of the Sub-National Bank of China, Limited, end
copies of a deed of Morigaga, of a Statutory Declaration and of a
balance sheet.
With regard to the question whether Me. Vung
Ma-chùn is a British subject or not, I beg to enclose a copy of
the form on which a certificate of birta issued to that gentleman
on the 5th. December, 1899. Mr. Fong Wa-chun is as you are aware
a Justice of the Peace and a leading Chinese Merchant in hongkong
where ne has always resided.
fis Eritanic Majesty's Consul-General,
Cantco.
I have eto.,
(Sd.) M. athan,
Governor, do..