CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 111

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Government House, Hong Kong, 18€ May 1880.

The enclosed official

official returns and reports dispose finally of

of some questions brought to the notice of Her Majesty's Government about

The Right Honorable

Sir Michael Sticks Beach, P., M. P.,

"Majesty's Principal Secretary of the Colonies,

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