CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6] — Page 489

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"Colonial Office Regulations to request your authority for Mr. May's acceptance of the presents in question.

I have the honour to be,

Sir; Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,

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Major General, Administering the Government.

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No.164.

sir,

ENCLOSURE.

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Pe 2 AUG.3

Police Office.

22nd. June, 1898.

I have the honour to inform you that the Chi-

nese Official at Kowloon City has presented me with four Chi- nese pictures (value about $25) and two small boxes of tea. According to Chinese etiquette it would be a

grave breach of manners to decline the present of pictures, and I should like to retain the tea seeing that the donor ac- cepted a present of wine and eatables from me at the Chinese

New Year.

I have therefore to ask permission to accept

the whole of the official's present,

The relations between this officer and myself

have been very friendly and he has given me much valuable as- sistance in searching out criminals who had escaped arrest in Hong-Kong and in preventing dangerous robbers and others making the villages in Chinese territory over against HongKong, bases from which to organise robberies in our territory.

I have,&c.,

(sa.) F H MAY.

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The Honourable

The Acting Colonial Secretary.