CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9] — Page 328

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however there were

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so fassengers. on board, and I to not understand on what ground, Sor A. Kr. endeavored to prevent their shipping opinen at Macso for San Francisco. Portafs the American consul was in error in Suffosing he could issue the clearances, and be now appears to boubt the propriety of the course he was about to take.

assmuming the nigung tone

But even

to the Hongkong ofnin farmor boy huss 20 Jardine's action, what right. And we to interfere? We interfored less then they suffoded in their letter of the 23rd of August (rn 10912), and it may perhaps be held that the Govermon merely gave the H. 8. Consul the information for which the latter had afflied. But this cannot be sand of the action of the local Government

on its

in telegraphing to San Francisco to minder the acyptorence», wosival at that fort.

I see no easy answer to the Ruess 23 Jardine's memorials, for, apart of the case of the "Cyphrenes" would the Local Government have taken action about the Lemindern, if there had been no Opinam monopoly in Hongkong. of course it is possible to answer that in the case of the Cyphrenes, it was undesirable that she should call at macas, having Chinese Passengers on bound, and that in that of the Teminder, the local Government only gave the American Consul some information u? de required. But world that be sufficient?

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