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"Ordinance continuation Ordinance,

"1885 " Annexed is the customary Report from the Attorney-General.

2.

This Ordinance was

introduced in pursuance of the instructions contained in Your Lordship's despatch W. 68 of 1885.

It

was

passed without opposition

in the Colonial Legislature. But, on the motion for the second ~ reading, the Senior Unofficial_

Member (Mr Ryrie) spoke to the

following effect:-

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"As great privileges

are

conferred

"by

Enclosure 2 27th May, 1885

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"by this Ordinance on the French "Mail Steamers, he thought that

"the French Government should " be asked to give

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some assurance

that there will be no

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interference on the part of

in the future on

Future

"French men-of-war with the "English Mail Steamers visiting

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the Port of HongKong. The Honourable

gentle,

ntleman added that it seemed "unreasonable that French Mail

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Steamers should

enjoy

such ~

"large privileges here, while ___

"English mail steamers are

stopped,

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