CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886 — Page 67

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should be put into force at once.

I am, Dir, Jam,
Your
most o
obedient
humble servant.
Pfann

No. 28.
C. O.
4797
66
}

The Earl of Rosebery to Mr. O'Conor.
(No. 68. Ext. 11,) Sir,

WITH reference to your telegram No. 9 of the 11th ultimo, I have to inform you
Foreign Office, March 6, 1886. that Her Majesty's Government have notified to the Chinese Minister at this Court their assent to the request of the Chinese Government, that the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium should be put in force at once.

You should, therefore, issue instructions accordingly to Her Majesty's Consuls in China, and submit the name of the Consular officer whom you consider best qualified to serve on the Hong Kong Commission, to which Mr. Russell will be nominated by the Hong Kong Government as Representative of that Colony.

The Commission will consider the proposals made by Sir R. Hart, with the excep-tion of two clauses, which are held to be inadmissible, and which relate to the taxation of opium consumed in Hong Kong, and to the question of limiting the export of opium from India to the vessels of those Powers which adhere to the Additional Article.

Her Majesty's Government consider it best that the opium question should not be complicated with questions relative to the Kashgar trade or the Thibetan Missions.

The substance of this despatch was communicated to you this day in a telegram.

I am, &c. (Signed) ROSEBERY.

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should be put into force at once. I am, Dir, Jam, Your most o obedient humble servant. Pfann No. 28. C. O. 4797 66 } The Earl of Rosebery to Mr. O'Conor. (No. 68. Ext. 11,) Sir, WITH reference to your telegram No. 9 of the 11th ultimo, I have to inform you Foreign Office, March 6, 1886. that Her Majesty's Government have notified to the Chinese Minister at this Court their assent to the request of the Chinese Government, that the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium should be put in force at once. You should, therefore, issue instructions accordingly to Her Majesty's Consuls in China, and submit the name of the Consular officer whom you consider best qualified to serve on the Hong Kong Commission, to which Mr. Russell will be nominated by the Hong Kong Government as Representative of that Colony. The Commission will consider the proposals made by Sir R. Hart, with the excep-tion of two clauses, which are held to be inadmissible, and which relate to the taxation of opium consumed in Hong Kong, and to the question of limiting the export of opium from India to the vessels of those Powers which adhere to the Additional Article. Her Majesty's Government consider it best that the opium question should not be complicated with questions relative to the Kashgar trade or the Thibetan Missions. The substance of this despatch was communicated to you this day in a telegram. I am, &c. (Signed) ROSEBERY.

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should be put into force at once. I am, Dir, Jam, Your most o obedient humble servant. Pfann No. 28. C. O. 4797 66 } The Earl of Rosebery to Mr. O'Conor. (No. 68. Ext. 11,) Sir, WITH reference to your telegram No. 9 of the 11th ultimo, I have to inform you Foreign Office, March 6, 1886. that Her Majesty's Government have notified to the Chinese Minister at this Court their assent to the request of the Chinese Government, that the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium should be put in force at once. You should, therefore, issue instructions accordingly to Her Majesty's Consuls in China, and submit the name of the Consular officer whom you consider best qualified to serve on the Hong Kong Commission, to which Mr. Russell will be nominated by the Hong Kong Government as Representative of that Colony. The Commission will consider the proposals made by Sir R. Hart, with the excep- tion of two clauses, which are held to be inadmissible, and which relate to the taxation of opium consumed in Hong Kong, and to the question of limiting the export of opium from India to the vessels of those Powers which adhere to the Additional Article. Her Majesty's Government consider it best that the opium question should not be complicated with questions relative to the Kashgar trade or the Thibetan Missions. The substance of this despatch was communicated to you this day in a telegram. I am, &c. (Signed) ROSEBERY.

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should be put into force at once.

I am, Dir, Jam,

Your

most o

obedient

humble servant.

Pfann

No. 28.

C. O.

4797

}

The Earl of Rosebery to Mr. O'Conor.

(No. 68. Ext. 11,) Sir,

WITH reference to your telegram No. 9 of the 11th ultimo, I have to inform you

Foreign Office, March 6, 1886. that Her Majesty's Government have notified to the Chinese Minister at this Court their assent to the request of the Chinese Government, that the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement relative to opium should be put in force at once.

The Commission will consider the proposals made by Sir R. Hart, with the excep- tion of two clauses, which are held to be inadmissible, and which relate to the taxation of opium consumed in Hong Kong, and to the question of limiting the export of opium from India to the vessels of those Powers which adhere to the Additional Article.

Her Majesty's Government consider it best that the opium question should not be complicated with questions relative to the Kashgar trade or the Thibetan Missions.

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