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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Seent applate Thong 303/749

emor

Mind & May 1879

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Ini CONFIDEN

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"Jam diveted by

30 April/fy the Seruitany of flate

多

for the Colonies to

acknowledge the receipt

of your Confidential

letter of the 19th of April 878 relative to the prapond apponitment

of a local Committer

in Hong Kong to consider the question of enlistment of auxiliary forces to supplement the Regulad ganison of that place

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AMAMEN nevyng VIETNA

2 In reply I am to Kansmit to you

a

copy of a Despatch сару

which Sir Michael Hicks Beach Gropens

with the concunened Secutary

of Colonel Stanley to

addurs to the Sovered

of Hong Kong motusting

him to appoints a Committee to Consider

and report on the question and if Colonel

Stanley

Conans in

the eveland diufte

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