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RECEIVER

21 MAY 1877

169

Foreign Office.

May 18. 1877

With reference to

Your

letter

of the 25th Restant, respecting Chilto

the seizure by a Chinese cruiser of a junk, and her cargo of opium, in Honglong waters. I am directed by the Earl of Derby

to transmit

to

you

to be laid

before the Earl of Carnarvon,

a

The

Under secretary of State.

Colonial Office

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