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Cms 8664 Hong Kong 368 30 April 96
The Hon. Clerical Secretary Church Missionary Society
In answer to your letter of the 22nd inst. I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to point out that there appears to be under a misapprehension in supposing that since the revocation in 1872, upon the resignation of Bishop Alford, of the Letters Patent which constituted the old see of Victoria, the appointment of a Bishop to officiate in Hong Kong rested at the nomination of the Secretary of State, and it is...
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