CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 264

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Foreign Office

March 8-1889

261

Sir,

am

directed by

the Marquis

2963. of Salisbury to acknowledge the

receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, inclosing copy of a further despatch from the fovernor of Hongkong on the subject of the inconveniences arising from the privileges granted to French,

mail steamers under the Portal Convention of 186-6.

The Under Secretary

of State

Colonial Office