CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6] — Page 23

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No. 131,

Cots and Ford. I

Government House.

21

12703

RECE Y JUN OF)

Hong-Kong, 6th. May, 1898.

nclosure 5th May, 1898, In duplicate

Sir,

I have the honour to forward a letter from

the Hong-Kong General Chamber of Commerce on the extension

of the boundaries of the Colony which they beg me to trans-

mit to you.

I may add that I declined to forward a tele-

gram from this body on the same subject on the grounds that

it set forth nothing new and that all the facts of the case

were before the Imperial Government as also the views of the

Naval and Military Authorities and of the citizens of Hong-

Kong.

The Right Honourable

Joseph Chamberlain M. P.

80.1

&C.

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I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your most obedient

Humble Servant,

Markh

Major-General,

Administering the Government.

&C.,