CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 373

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the Chinese have a perfect right organise, might not impossibly interfere with the junk trade to

to

aw

wetent injurions to the Colony,

I submitted

my

views

on the subject to Earl Granville, and I suggested it as possible that the Colony might be prepared to concede some arrangement by which due surveillance

concerned would be

of

The reverne

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secured to Ohma; her Government

in return according

Ms

some

concession

that would advantage British Prode. From His Lordship's reply I gather that the Colonial Office will have consulted the Government of the Colony on the point.

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I have sounded the Mamên

of Foreign Affairs, and I regret to that I see not the slightest

say

ground for expecting to negotiate,

through it,

any exchange of the tand I had thought posible. The standing objection of the Chinese to concession of any novelly apart, it plain to see that the Gamin prefers to leave the responsibility of the collection in question entirely to the Provincial Government of Canton.

is

Meanwhile, the head of this, the Governor Comeral guilin, manifestly embarrassed by this responsibility, and from the

very the way