CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893 — Page 158

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

December 28th, 1893.

Your despatch No.214 of the 26th of September

last relative to questions connected with the opening

of the Weat River to Foreign Trade was referred to

Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Lord Ripon concurs in your opinion that Mr Consul

Brenan, on his arrival at Canton, might with ad-

vantage sound the Hong Kong Government as to the

expediency of an arrangement for accepting dollars

of the Canton Mint as legal tender in Hong Kong,

and the Straits Settlements, in exchange for the

opening of Wuchow as a Treaty Port. His Lordship

also thinks that the Consul may, if the dovernment

of Hong Kong have no objection, discuss that question

with the Viceroy of the Province or Kwantung.

Should these discussions appear to open up the

prospect of any definite result, Mr Brenan might

R. O'Conor Esq. C.M.G.,

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also