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The Right Honorable

The Secretary of State for the Colonies

Moy Lord Earl,

Will

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your Lordships permit, me to address you on the subject of the Rornan Catholic Schools in the "colony of Hongkong and to request, your interference in favour of the managers of those schools in a

question which may arise between them and the government of that, colony in relation to the schools and their mar

& management,

my communication

I am aware that, in strictness, my Cvernor of

aught to be made to your Lordship through

over which

your

Hongkong, but, as I am at present in England and as the department.

-lordship presides is, doubt- less, in full possession of the fact of the case and of the of the Hongkong government, thereon I trust to your well known "Courtesy and consideration for a hearing

I do not think I need trouble your Lordship with details as to the Roman Catholic Schools in Hongkong, their number, their extent, or the work they have done and are

any

doing. All these things

and

office

are on record in the Colonial & I your Lordship and your pridecessors in office have re- - peatedly signified your approval of the labours of the