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there. This correspondence was closed by your despatch
No.5 of January 4, 1907 approving the tere of Kr.Carnegie'S
reply to the Governor of Hongkong, and I do not therefors
consider it necessary to reopen this larger subject.
One
heading, however, of the correspondence referred to the
steps which should be taken in the case of absconding
bankrupts, and on this point two auch authorities as Sir
H.de Saumarez and Mr.Vansfield differed as to the proper
course to adopt, the latter, as before stated, favouring
an arrangement by which the Hongkong and Canton Covernment.
should reciprocate in questions of bankruptcy.
Mana-
field informed Sir Mathew Wathen that he believed that
the respectable mercantile community in Canton would wel-
come a scheme for having an official receiver in that town
who would work in agreement with the official receives
Hongkong, and that he hoped to be able to induce the men-
bers of the Commercial Board to take the initiative in pr
posing this to the authorities, and Bir П. de Saumarez Eu
sequently expressed the opinion that, if this could be
done, the matter was worth pressing.
On receipt of you
despat