CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 323

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Foreign Officer (37

Jonly 18.1885

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Iam directed by the marquis of saliabusy to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, with its

1174 in closures, of the 13th instant,

relative to the status of French Inail steameto at Hongkong; and, Iam, in reply, to state, for the in for

Imation of Colonel Stanley, that His Lordship concurs in the termo

this

of the Draft Ordinance on subject as forwarded in your letter, and also in the proposed instruction to the Governor of the bolony intimating that Her Majesty's fovernment think it unnecessary

tore-open the question of the stoppage

The Under Secretary

of State

Colonial Office.

during