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Lordship's despatch No. 162 to Mr Hammill, Kabution and had reason to believe from his report that the object had been in a great measure obtained. Understanding, however, from Sir Richard MacDonnell, who I had the pleasure of seeing on my passage through the Harbour, that he was not satisfied the impediments to such free intercourse as he desired to see established between the local Authorities at Kowloon and the Colonial Officers had been removed, I called upon Mr Robertson before seeing the Viceroy to make me a written report of the existing relations and the understanding established. The Memorandum on the subject which he placed in my hands I have the honor to enclose as Enclosure No. 2, also extracts of Supplementary Report of Mr Mayers.

3. With reference to the position of Ching Yak, the Acting Commandant of the Military Division of Taiping, the headquarters of which are at Kowloon opposite to Hongkong, his communications with the Colony, and his connection with the Opium tax Station, which forms in part the subject of Mr Registrar General Smith's Memo of December 16th, Your Lordship will observe that Mr Robertson states he had never interfered with, but on the contrary had always encouraged, his...