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to Your Lordship's predecessor &

in Sir William Marsh's

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: despatches No 351 of the let he of November, and W. 378 of Ea the 4th of December, 1886.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Credient

Humble Servant,

Meilliander Vany

Copy.

No. 76

Enclosure.

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Governor of Hongkong to H. B. 's. Minister, Peking?

Government House,

Hongkong, 25th. July, 1889.

31 AUG,39,

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sir,

I have the honour to bring to Your Excellency's

notice the facts contained in the enclosed report fur-

nished to Major General Gordon, Acting Captain Superin-

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tendent of Police in this Colony, and in the accompa-

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nying petition from a Chinese named Ng Tung, on the sub-

ject of a recent arrest on British Territory of two re-

sidents of this Colony by an armed party of Chinese, ́ the

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majority of whom appear to have been dressed in milita-

ry unifotus.

I also enclose copy of a letter from major General

Gordon, on the subject.

This case constitutes another of those infringements

of the territorial rights of the Colony by Chinese, which

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have been only too frequent in the past, and which have

seldom, if ever, met with any redress from the Govern-

ment which is responsible for their pocurrence.

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In the last case of this nature, that of Wu A-Fung

who was seized in the waters of the Colony and executed

at Kowloon City in 1886, the matter has been left in a

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His Excellency

Sir John Walsham, Bart,

Her Britannic Majesty's Minister,

&C.

&C.

PEKING.

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