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of 26th August 18t3 in accordance

with their application in letter same date.

the

They might

have

of

exported

fire arms as they wished, to Singapore, but they neglected to fulfil the merely formal conditions

which they

required.

were told would be

The application

was never

renewed by Messrs Bowen AC. now

by

any

one

Her

else on behalf of Mese's

Toarnett tious, and to the present date this Government is uninformed as to the ultimate bestination of these arms but it

is allowable to presume that they

are

the arms in question and are

lying here.

As

regards shipment to Shaughne it is difficult to muiderstand

why either Mesis Bowrn in Stonghong

then, or Mesirs Barnett

in

London

now,

should select the

Hougtong Government for incrimination seeing

that Sir

Frederick Bruce had issued an similar prohibitory notification as to import into Chinese Ports, onted Peking 17th June 1863, and published in the Shaughne Bewspaper of the following 4th July..

I forward 2 extracts from 1.3. the Strugtong Government hazette

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