CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4] — Page 142

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has recently been promoted, by the Ampern of China, to the "Ficeroyalty

o

Jiangsu Jiangsi, aud

Markway, paid me the hour

a visit on the 24th Instant.

2.

of

He arrived in Victorin Hatoour accompanied by a Flotilla of Gunboats and landed at scoon.

As arrival was quite unexpected

as

dish not receive the enclosed

letter from Her Majesty's Consul at Cariton till the 26th Euctant, but I made the best arrangements I could under the Circumstances to give co distinguished a vicitor a cuitable reception.

Mo Hewlett & f

Test.23 fan.

was pleased

His Excellency

to

say

good buz

that his only Foject in coming

to Hongkong was to bish me good

and to mark his sense of the good

relations that had personally and

Officially existed between

4.

us.

The enclosed account of the

visit is extracted from one of the

Daily pinpers.

I have the hown to be.

Lir

your worst Bordent

Stureble Zervant,

w.

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