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Librarian and curator of the City Hall... Museum, and a notice the Committee have issued in which a distinction is made between Chinese and others as admission to the Museum.

2.

To

I shall report fully on this letter, I hope by the next mail. Meanwhile I have the honour to lay before Your Lordship copies of correspondence on the subject.

3.

Some subsequent

The Colonial Secretary's letter of the 11th of June acquainting Mr. Keswick with the substance of the legal advice I had received on some of the matters in dispute and conveying to him Sir Michael Hicks Beach's suggestion that it would be well to try the free opening of the Museum for a period of six months, drafted by Mr. O'Malley, the Attorney General, who read all the despatches and papers on the subject including the title deed. Nevertheless, Mr. Keswick, and the two or three other gentlemen who constitute the majority of the City Hall Committee persist in taking a different view of their legal position (as opposed to that of the Trustee, Mr. Ryrie) from that which I am advised is the correct one; also decline to try the experiment suggested by Sir Michael Hicks Beach in his despatch No 155 of 16th December 1874.

I will only add, at present,

4.

that the statement in Mr. Keswick's letter that I had privately agreed to some

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was

Bo leber

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240 Librarian and curator of the City Hall... Museum, and a notice the Committee have issued in which a distinction is made between Chinese and others as admission to the Museum. 2. To I shall report fully on this letter, I hope by the next mail. Meanwhile I have the honour to lay before Your Lordship copies of correspondence on the subject. 3. Some subsequent The Colonial Secretary's letter of the 11th of June acquainting Mr. Keswick with the substance of the legal advice I had received on some of the matters in dispute and conveying to him Sir Michael Hicks Beach's suggestion that it would be well to try the free opening of the Museum for a period of six months, drafted by Mr. O'Malley, the Attorney General, who read all the despatches and papers on the subject including the title deed. Nevertheless, Mr. Keswick, and the two or three other gentlemen who constitute the majority of the City Hall Committee persist in taking a different view of their legal position (as opposed to that of the Trustee, Mr. Ryrie) from that which I am advised is the correct one; also decline to try the experiment suggested by Sir Michael Hicks Beach in his despatch No 155 of 16th December 1874. I will only add, at present, 4. that the statement in Mr. Keswick's letter that I had privately agreed to some 79 was Bo leber C. 3
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Librarian and burator of the City Hall... Museum, and a notice the Committee

have issued in which a distinction is

made between Chinese and others as

admission to the Museum.

2.

to

I shall report fully on this letter, I hope by the next mail. Meanwhile I - have the honour to lay before Your Lordship copies of correspondence on the subject.

3.

some

subsequent -

The Colonial Secretary's letter of the 11th of June acquainting Mr. Keswich

with the substance of the legal advice I

had received

on some

of the matters in

dispute and conveying to him sir Michael Hicks Beach's suggestion that it would be well to try the free opening of

Bo

leber

79

was

the Museum for a period of six months, drafted by Mr. O'Malley, the Attorney General, who read all the despatches and papers on the subject including the title deed. Nevertheless, M. Keswick, and the two or three other gentlemen who constitute the majority of the City Hall Committee persist in taking a different view of their legal position (as opposed to that of the Trustee, Mr. Ryrie) from that which I am advised is the correct one; also decline to try the experiment

and

they

C.

suggested by Sir Michael Kicks Beach in his despatch No 155 of 16th December 1874.

I will only add, at present,

4.

that the statement in Mr. Keswick's letter

that I had privately agreed to some

3

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