CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883 — Page 77

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My Lords,

RECR

General Rock 2pfect

19th May, 1883.

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I have the honour

to return

the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office"

which your Lordships referred to me

on the

25th ultimo, stating

that Lord Derby

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so send the

proposes, if your Lordships agree.

letter from this Department of the 19th March

last to

the Eastern Extension Telegraph

,"--

l ompany,

and

to request its adhesion to the

obligatory clauses of the International Telegraph

Convention of 1875 in

of 1875 in regard to their'

MEAS

cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai, and,

asking what

are

precisely the obligatory

clauses

The Lords Commissioners

of the Treasury,