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E Secretary Chamber of Commerse to Colonial Secretary,

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HongKong General Chamber of Commerce

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(HongKong, 31. %. July, 1888.

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I am directed by the

Committee of this Chamber, to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter dated the 11+ th

instant, 1958, and it enclosure, on

the

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bject of a proposal to lay a direct Telegraph Cable between Hongkong and Singapore.

the

Iam instructed to state, for information of His Excellency the Governor, that the Committee have given this measur full consideration and they have come to "the conclusion that the recessity that -previously existed, in the opinion of the

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Molonial Leenetary,

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