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Lordship's despatch that the correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office upon the subject will have been communicated to Your Excellency,

but I think it well to enclose

copy of a report from Mr. Tedder; Her Majesty's Consul at Amoy.

The only ports from

which Ishould seek to trouble

the Colony with Shipments of

Seamen

en are

Frochow, Amoy,

Awatow, and Canton - From Amoy

during

the

business

Foochow, the

Deason

at

imer mont

months,

the Consul should be cautioned.

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not to send Men to Hongkong,

!

unless satisfied that there was little chance of securing them a

passages to England or Qustralia,

might be, from

a.s

the

Casa

Foochow; and Goochow itself would.

of

020

follow the

rule.

From Canton similarly

man should be sent unless

the Consul were

Z

salesfied that

he could not be provided with

A

passage from Canton direct .

It is still a question whether the Ports of Formosa will be disestablished or not

If

not, seamen

might on

ta are