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REGE 10 DEC 00

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 8th.November, 1900.

sir,

In reply to your letter of this date I

am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor

regrets his inability, without direct instructions from Her Majesty's Government, to acknowledge any person in connection with a Foreign Consulate except the Consul General or Consul,

whose duties are clearly defined.

8.A. Consul General.

I have etc.,

(sa) J.H.Stewart Lockhart,

Colonial Secretary.