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the public meeting subsequently dealt with, was made Known to the Secretary of State

by

the Governor in October 1878, and the Governor

promised to forward the result of the

Committee's

with some

further

investigations Despatches from himself on the subject. All now been done; and within the next

this has

few months the decision of the Secretary of

on the

State will no doubt be received

various important points raised in the resolutions of the public meeting of the 7th of October and in a letter of the Chinese ellerchants of the 5th of November addressed to the Secretary of State.

8thellay, 1879.

(signed) I. Pope Hennessy/.

elly dear Gibb,

Government House, Honghong, 10th allay, 1879.

As I sent you

Memorandum to do what you

it, you

papers.

was

can

, if you wish,

give

the

liked with

it to the

The address of the Chinese Shopkeepers

and

of the 29th of October 1878 republished in the Garette (it had been already printed a few months

in the Honghong Shanghae papers) because it is sustomary to gazette any

address to the Sovereign that

ago

Her ellajesty has been pleased to receive at the time that the Sceretary of State tells