CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 459

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untenable.

viz.

that he

was the innocent

:.party always provoked, and that from

the first he had been subjected to annoyance by M. blank.

probability

interests

direction.

anm

was

assertion to which all

spposed lay altogether in

as Mr. blank's

in an another.

45 At the conclusion of Mr. Milson's letter (Paragraph 15) the Council would

observe that he insinuates M. blank was

resign his appointment under

Cobliged to resign his

the Municipal Council of Shanghai because

The had insisted.

luis

Aww M

way appointment

ow

having everything

and that he had left

om

the Great Northern A

because he could not

Superior.

Both

get,

on

assertions

appear to be equally malicious and unfounded.

46 In reference to the first His Excellency

would read an extract

from

Ov

note

addressed to him by the Honorable W.,

Keswick resident mi

Managing

Partier of

Jardine Matheson Hi: who was here at present- and who had been actually bhainman of the Shanghai Municipal banncil when M. black returned to

England.

11.

Extract (qua

#

(Que May 1868) is read as

"follows." "M" blant left the Shanghai

Municipal employ

an

#1

"the term of his

with his

i would

DW

the

expiration of

and because

e we

agreement

"could not afford to keep him

}{

finances

were

so low.

ow.

ou

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