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Stanley that the Board of Irade strongly approve of

ber

what Sir R. Alcock and

and feel the

Hart are doing. greatest satisfaction at the co-operation and assistance of the Chinese Government.

With reference to that

R

partion of six & Alcock's Deepatit

his

respecting

communication

with the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the Lighting of the boasts

of that leolony,

I am to state that the Board

of

I rade will be most happy

to assist the Government of.

with their advice

Hong Kong

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and by the selection of suitable. apparatus, if they determine to pay for the erection and. maintenance of any dights

round their boast, and I

further to request that

be subrutted for

may

the consideration

of

Lord Stanley

whether it is not desirable

that the Foreign Office should write to the Colonial Office in support of Sir R. Alcock's Despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong. I am further to suggest

with reference to the measures

being taken by the Japanese Government with

mou

and

respect