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China

Copy of Correspondence from our Representative in

Idegraphs.

re

Dear Sir

sent by

Hongkong 15 April 1882

To the numer

us letters

me to Mr. Squier of your Hongkong office between June and December of last year I hare not much to add. But for purposes of confirmation I wish

you

tris ad

to make. Known to -ditional fack, because they show

in a

clear light the objectivis of the Geat Northern Felgt boy.

I harr ascertained that

when the document granting sea and land telegraph monopolies was obtained from the Viceroy Li, that arrangements had been made for following the grant by

ant by a for-

-mal notice to H.B. M; Minister to the Effect that

your Company's rights of 1870 had become invalidated, quil, and word by disuse and wen

considered

Ai be

John Pender by mt.

as

Cancelled.

Chairman. The Eastern Extension to Telegraph bef

London.