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-China-Union) Telegraph Company, I

have

now the honour to forward, -- for Your Lordship's information,

an extract from a containing a substantially

a local newspaper,

$

Enclosure). from

accurate daily pren

report of the proceedings of the

Legislative Council of Honghong the 20th instant.

2.

on

It will be seen that

Mr. F. 13. Johnson,

one

of the two

Unofficial Members of the existing Connoil, moved, in pursuance of

X

notice

of 21 Jul 1883

"It will be recollected that the Queen's Instructions now in force provide that there shall be four "Unofficial members in the Council; but that in consequence of special instructions from the Colonial office

notice, that the Governor should be

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requested to lay on the table copies of

کو کچھ

correspondence between the Colonial

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Secretary

and the Chamber of Commerce

relative to the application of the

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Canton - Bonghong We Hop Telegraph Co

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to

lay

a cable across the harbour". The speeches of Mr. Johnson, and of M. Ryrie,

the only other Unofficial member, reflest accurately

Office, two of those so-called "Unofficial places, have been filled up by paid officials, vir: the Surveyor-General (MW Price), and the

I the Registrar Geneval (M. Stewart); a proceeding, which (as I have explained in my "despatch N. 62 of the 14th May ultimo), was unnecessary for the presumed object of Keeping the absolute

of the Council in the hands of the. secretary of State, through the Governor; and which has caused great and general. dissatisfaction in this community.

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