CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 229

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Hongkong

May 28th 1879

Whe

My Lord,

I

Continue)

my

account of the Conversation

with the Governor General Lin Kuen-ye reported

ur my Despatch No.15 of this date.

I have been staying in this Colony thrice

my

return here last March, and on each

casion I have discussed the question of the

Hongkong Blockade

Hennessy the Governor.

very fully with Mr Pape

as your Lordship is possibly

yo

Community

as

regards

Mr. Hennessy

aware does not

the length of the mercantile

on

The

the injury inflicted Trade of the Colony by the septom of surveillance

known as the Blockade.

He would be at

the

same time glad to see the three Custom Houses now planted in the abservation round the Colony,

removed, and the waters of the Colony relieved

from Marquess of Salisbury K. G.

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