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from Sham Shui Po which is

2-2.

the

frontier.

Again

a considerable

time was spent in correspondence relating to the evidence in the case,

until on the 11th instant this

Government, growing impatient of delay, despatched the Lispector of Police in whose district the arrest had been made, and the

nahie witnesses in the case, to the

Acting Consul General at Canton to be examined by him and confronted

with Lam

Yeing

and the Chiese

Authorities if necessary.

7.

establish

The effect was to beyond all doubt the

of

this

restitution

of

Sping,

and a

She is at present lying

in the Government Hospital in this Colony suffering from

of

10.

his

the results.

long imprisonment in China.

I wish to draw Your

Excellency's attention to the concind. ing paragraph of Mr. Watters East mentioned letter, and to state that a perusal of the voluminous corres. pondence which has passed between this Government, the Acting Cowel General and the Viceroy, leaves no

uporr my

mind that the

doubt

Chinese Authorities have acted.

throughout this affair

mi a manuær

deserves the striching

which thoroughly

of Mr Watters.

Under these circumstance,

right

ment to clain the Laur

Government to

reference to Mr Watters letter of the 18th instant, copy of which is enclosed, will show that the man

has at last been arrendered!.

He

18th Sect.

it becomes

unkes

my duty

to ask your,

you see string objection to such a coruse, to call upon the

Chuise Government to instruct the Viceroy of the Two Kuang

Ruang to make

a