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FO

3064 Hongkong

Inter Sec. of State.

Foreign Office.

APRE

ĮMINUTE

ID 13

17

Desp to

to Sow?

Gutered

174

5. April 1871.

I am direed by the ward of Kimberley # acknowledge to

receipt of your

29th March

letter dated the

inclosing

Coresce

between H. I's consul at Canton.

and the Nongkong Chamber of Commerce respecting the action taken by the Gunboate of the Viceroy of the Kwanting at a place called Pate_hor on the west coast.

Copies of these papers with be forwarded to the Governor of Hongton, for his information,

and I am to observe that when H. M. Consuls are called on to correspond on infortant political subjects with a

recognized body such as the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce

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