CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896 — Page 659

I am directed by the Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th inst: and to inform you that a copy of it has been communicated to the Foreign Office.

Hongkong

24.1.96

£7 to Foreign Office

651

1334

M. Lucas 24.

5. Payne. Eng

fr P

Mi 2.7 &.

It appears that the original text was jumbled and contained non-English characters. I have reordered the text to form coherent paragraphs and removed non-English characters. However, some parts of the text still appear to be unrelated or nonsensical. If this is a historical document, it's possible that the original scan was of poor quality or contained unrelated content. As per the instructions, I have: 1. Reordered the text to form coherent paragraphs. 2. Removed non-English characters. 3. Preserved the original content as much as possible. 4. Output the result in HTML using

tags. However, I must note that the original text contained many unrelated characters and words, which made it challenging to produce a coherent output. If you could provide more context or clarify the expected output, I may be able to assist further.