CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 223

any ground for the pretension

advanced, that would more avail

Hong.hong than Singapore or leylon, were it worth the while of either Colony

and this, practically.

to put it forward:

it is not; as little induc in the

Case of Stong-hong

as in the case

of the other two places;

5 places; His Majesty's

Consul. at Canton being fully equal,

in any instance, to the accomplishment

9

more than could be effected by the dispatches of a Colonial Governor

Me

to

There was not then, it appears

any sufficient ground either in

right on expediency, for the course pursued by the Hong-hong Good

in

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in the first

instance; any reason_

any

Sky

it should have been

of

so Tenacions

the object in disputer; but still

less does there seem any

Mr Robertson for it's treatment of Mr.

on of the Canton Authorities, by bay of retaliations for the refusal of

latter to corr

to correspond

of the

with it. The

Exaction of the Conditions

on

which

under Instructions from the Colonial Office, it is to insist, apart, the Colonial Gook now

declares that it will surrender

ho

vers to the Chinese unles

o prisoners the requisition, for them provided

by Juaty

it

be made in the manner

& prescribes, ma

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a direct

writing from

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