CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 214

putting

a stop to

piracy by compelling The towns who harbeit pirates and reine

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Thin pleme der disgorge, and pay fine under threat

д

a

bombardment from the river. Where

a

thate of affair en inprins to the Trade

of this Colony Exists, it is plainly The dirty of the Chimere Government to prevent There piracies,

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accept the accistance

offered to that send

by then Mapiti' forend

Lt.

I shall end

a copy of this despatch to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking.

I have the hoon to be

Sir

from most Obedient

Humble Servante

Sunny, assabe

Jormun