CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 602

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the Governor how the address has been

received.

Meeting

But

as the Resolutions of the public and the letter of the 5th November... 18778 addressed to the Secretary of State by the Chinese Merchants of the Colony.

about those resolutions have not yet been- answered it would be unusual to_ publish them in the Garette - Of course

the moment the answer is received in

either case it will be published.

Always Yours faithfully. (signed) 9. Pope Hennessy.

The Honourable

16. B. Gibb.

Ser

Copy

597

Houghong 26th May 1879

The proceedings of the public meeting if 7th October last, over which you presided, have not as yet obtained any official recognition, and we feel that it is of great importance that steps should be taken, with out delay, with the view of eliciting, in a form availatte for publication, some information as to the course that has been adopted, with regard to the resolutions, which were forwarded

by you to His Excellency the Governor, for Kaus- mission to Her Majesty's Principaleleretiry of State for the Colonies.

you

2. It is hardly necessary to u mind you of the thoroughly representative character of the meeting, including, as it did among its- supporters, not only the great majority of the unofficial portion of ther Majesty's Subjects

The Honourable

Hugh Bold Eibf.

Chairsuan of

Public Meeting of 7th October 1873)

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