CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 209

I received a Deputation,

Correctly,

or to speak more

I was received by Deputation of

a

the Chamber in the Town Hall.

I had been asked if I objected to a full:

J

assembly, but I left the question entirely to the

Chamber simply observing that from what

I

know of

J

some of the propositions to be discussed

did not conceive that the publication of

discussion would be at the present moment

of advantage).

I embodied my own recollections of what

in a letter to the

passed at the meeting

Chairman written

Copy.

Sir,

13835

79

H.M. S. Vigilant

8th April 1879

205

It will be satisfactory to myself, and

possibly of Converence to the Chamber of Commerce that while

what passed at the meeting

is fresh,

my

recollection

f the mucking yesterday

I

should put on

record

the

substance of my replies to the observations

of the gentlernen who spoke upon

to which

various subjects to

Avere

во

was invited.

repon my

return voyage

These

I beg

Torchow, the following day.

beg to melove copy of this letter

I have to

(s:) Thomas Francis Wade

8th April 150

I think four

my

the

attention

mi number.

pot the action of the Chinese Revenue

Collectorates

The Chainman

and Revenue Cruisers

which

of the Chamber of

Commerce

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