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3.
Again in the matter of Trade
Marks in China and Japan a question which very greatly
affects the interests of Merchants here, the only informa-
-tion I have is contained in such fragmentary correspond-
-ence as reaches me in these Foreign Office Prints. On the
two last of these questions I am addressing Your Lordship
in separate Despatches, but on the general question of
keeping this Government informed on matters very seriously
affecting the interests of the Colony, and upon which at
any moment the views of the Governor may be asked either
by Your Lordship or by His Majesty's Minister at Peking or
His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio or by the Commander-in-
-Chief of the China Station, I venture very respectfully to
urge upon Your Lordship the request contained in the first
paragraph of this Despatch, which in more precise terms is
that the Foreign Office should forward to Your Lordship's
Department in time to catch the outgoing mail all papers
relating to Affairs in China and China Trade and Railways
which have been received or despatched during the week so
that they may reach me in regular sequence of date at the
earliest possible moment; and that the collected papers
bound quarterly should be transmitted as soon as they are
-ion issued. In this connect I request that I may be furnished
with