CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 579

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my

sanction, in one

Newspapers.

2.

of the Wonghong

I do not consider that that

letter can bear the interpretation which Your Excellency states has been put upon it.

3.

I did not presume to express any opinion whatever of my

own

respecting the sovereignty of the Ancient Portuguese Colony of Mavan

I

confined myself to repeating what

often recorded, the

has been so

impossibility of the Honghong Government

interfering

in cases such as the

present on account of the expressed

views

4.

of

"the Chinese Authorities.

Trusting that the two

575

European

bolonies which are so

are so close

together

on the Coast of China, may

long maintain the most friendly-

may

continue

relations and that Macao in that career of renewed prosperity which Your Excellency has so successfully inaugurated,

I have K...

(signed) 9. Pope Hennessy,

Governor Hommander in

Chief.

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