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must have a voluminous correspondence

addressed to his predecessor by that

A

Chamber and further he cannot be ignorant of the fact that as general rule nearly all the principal

houses in the

China Made

had

Offries in Hongkong, and

their head Offries in

mercantile

that nearly all important me

operations emanate or

are controlled

from this Port-

or

else he

Ser

Rutherford supposes that our Governor

is the proper authority to be

addressed by

this

Chamber

on any

This

matters requiring amendment.

latter

was

in

real cause of

his opinion the

Sir Rutherford's silence.

but whether

he

was

right

оч

wrong

wrong

in this conjecture he thought

it should be

a

matter of

congratulation to all the Members

of the Hongkong Chamber that His Excellency had stepped forward in

This

and

way

offered them his valuable aid, and he thought he

vole of

was well entitled to, a

Thanks from the Chamber. With such an able Champion as

the

Governor when the mercantile community

of this important place had a grievance to complain of Mandarin worshipping Consuls and Chinese Secretaries will not be able as

heretofore to construe the clauses the treaty to suit the

of

vreivs

of

their