CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 282

Sir,

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Peking. Sept. 6. 1865

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I have the honour to acknowledge Your Despatch 22.575 of the 31st July.

I shall be sorry if I have appeared wanting either precisely or personally to afford the communication of the 8th July called for by the late Colonial Secretary's Despatch of the 15th June to E. H. Robertson, who was therein informed that it was "intention to report to you the obstructions that have been persistently for some time past known in the way of the buttresses to this Colony;"

I certainly read this, as I believe it to be a letter of censure threatening ...

F. Merar Egre

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