CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 439

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described in the above convention to be

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part and parcel of the Colony of Hong Kong.

Which has not at present been made public

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with it should be passed the ordinance I which reference is made below den

hey relate & Kowloon city, the northern Fonday of the leared touritory, and the Collection of the Chinese duties on opium.

You will cause this Order in Council/to be

A published in the Colony at as early a date

as possible,

sible,

3

You have already become acquainted

with the general aspects of the questions

involved in the transfer of this territory,

and it is unnecessary therefore that I

should here dwell upon them at any length.

have

Bux You will

You

Comspondence 1sathead from the latten to the

Popping Office of the 2004 November,

axcpy in encloved in my precione despatch

-of-which has already been ecamunicated t

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that there are three points which Her

Majesty's Government have regarded as of

special importance in the preliminary stages

of the negotiations.

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The questions of the civil ad-

ministration of Kowloon city and of the

extension of the northern frontier so as to

include the town of Sham Chun will require

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