1841-1886
OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
HONG KONG.
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Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B. to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
(No. 584.)
MY LORD DUKE,
Government House, Hong Kong, October 5, 1868.
I HAVE the honour to forward herewith the Blue Book Returns for 1867, and late as is the period at which I transmit it, it is only due to the staff in the Colonial Secretary's office to state that it was received by me last May, and it is solely owing to a somewhat protracted illness from which I had suffered, and the pressure of the daily work of administration, that I have not transmitted it earlier.
Notwithstanding the great length at which I commented on the Blue Book returns for the previous year (1866), transmitted in my despatch, No. 384, of last year, there is very much in the returns now transmitted which invite comment and explanation. I only regret that I am unable by this opportunity to find time to give the explanations which I should wish. I shall, therefore, reserve them till next year, when, if I shall then be here, I can do better justice to the subject.
His Grace the
(Signed)
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,
I have, &c.
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
&c.
&c.
&c.
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