CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 238

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8 August 1879

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With reference to

letter

Your

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pot inst!

relative to the question of Salutes to Freign Envoys at Hong Kong, I am commanded

by my

Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty

to request that

you

will acquaint the Seculary

of Hate for Foreign Affairs that as the Quan's Regulations

and the Admiralty

instructions only authorize salutes to Envoys Extraordinary & Ministers Plenipotentiory within the precincts of the Governments to which they

are accredited, it appears to their Lordships that these Officers

are not entitled to salutes

in the Colony of Hong Kong.

The Under Secretary

of Hak

Foreign Office

"I am

(signed) The Wolley