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weeks amual vacation allowed to the Governors of Hongkong

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As Your Lordship is aware,

there has been during several years

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past much official difficulty respecting

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what is called "the Blockade of the Port

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of HongKong by Chinese Revenue Cruisers and Gunboats; about the mutual extradition of criminals; and about other important and delicate questions at issue between the Government of this Colorry and the Chinese Authorities, _ concerning which

which my

my predecessors -

and I have been in correspondence

swith

with the British Minister at Veking and with the British Consul at Canton. It is believed that there is little prospect of a speedy or satisfactory arrangement of these long-standing controversies, except through a personal conference between dir Harry Parkes and myself.

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Of course, any

course, any settlement which we propose will be subject to the approval of Your Lordship and of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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• Again, my health is

somewhat affected by the constant hard work which I have gone through, in

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