CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 270

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Plague at Honghong

C.O.

16129 Rac (Red 11 SEP J4)

264

CANTO N.

June 25th. 1894.

No.35.

Sir:-

I have the honour to enclose a copy of a des-

patch addressed by the Governor of Hongkong to the

Secretary of State for the Colonies in which His

Excellency gives a narrative of events connected

with the plague. The despatch is published in the

Hongkong papers by the authority of the Governor.

The greater portion of the despatch refers to

matters within the colony, and calls for no remarks

from me; but there are also some paragraphs relating

to affairs at Canton which may give rise to some mis

conception, and to these I beg to call your atten-

Paragraphs 14 and and 15 would make it ap-

tion

pear that the Governor, becoming concerned about the

safety of foreigners at Canton, had taken steps to

check the growing anti-foreign feeling.

What took place was this: the Governor, hearing

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

&0.,

&C.,

that

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