CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870 — Page 304

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12.

This forminated the Dunk

Pregistration and Sink pot prohibition

question.

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refor to the

I will now refer

letter of the Governor of Thongthong

dated the 19. has been transmitted to the Berl of Clarendon and is enclosed in His Lordship's Despatch to your Ballincy.

of April 1867 which

I gather from this communication that the Governor of Hongthing defends

his action in not co

-operating

the chinese authorities.

with

by legislation.

against the armament of fishing banke and the carrying of Mink pots and complains that, with reference

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the Junk disarmament; he was

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subjected

to allacks for an apparent sucrifice of local interests in imposing testructions involving the search of every vessel [Chinese] arriving at Bongsong. awhile the Vice Goy took

the oncotter on

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slopes in

his part, and left

him (the Governor ) in the absence

of any information from the Consul or himself (the Vice Rey) to continue. for weeks the disarmament of aressel frequenting the shores of Hongthong ; and with regared to stink pols, that it would be suicidal policy by vigorous starch and ingvisitavial examination to drive from the tecton, The timid and suspicious

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