CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4] — Page 506

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COPY.

IE JOHN KEAND, BAKT. PRIVATE SECRETARY.

Hongkong, 30th. March, 1903.

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Sir,

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I have the honour to transmit to you a

Petition in triplicate addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony.

The Petition has been signed by the leading members of every section of the Chinese Community here resident, and I am requested by them to beg Bis Excellency the Governor to forward the same to the Secre- tary of State by an early mail.

As the matter is an urgent one, I am further requested to ask His Excellency to be so good as to send a telegram to the Secretary of State acquainting him with the subject matter of the Petition and stating by what mail the same is being sent.

I have etc.,

(Sd.). HO KAI.