CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 628

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certificate as to the cause of death.

The body having already been despatched from

Hamburg, I requested the Chinese Minister to supply

me with the name of the ship, and have now been

informed that the case containing the coffin left

Hamburg for Hongkong by the "Saxonia", and is

marked W.S.H, and addressed to the China Merchant

Steam Navigation Company at Shanghae.

It appears that owing to the unsettled state

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of affairs, the shipping company refused to under-

take to take the coffin further than Hongkong.

the event of communication with Shanghae being

open, it will not be necessary to land it at Hong-

kong at all, but in the contrary case a permission

to land and re-ship it would be necessary and I am

consequently transmitting to Your Lordship the

Chinese Minister's request that the requisite per-

mission may be communicated by telegraph by the

Colonial Office to the proper authorities at Hong-

kong.

(Signed)

I have, &c.,

Charles S. Scott.

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