CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4] — Page 247

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No. 35.

is excellency

Sir,

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RECE

REGS 24 MAR 06.

His Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, 16th. February, 1906,

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I beg to enciosa, for Your Excellency's

consideration, copy and translation of a letter which I have just

received from the Viceroy regarding the Coal mortgaged to the

National Bank.

lo answer to my last three letters, the

Viceroy declines to entertain any further discussion of the case.

He claims that the coal attached is the property of Chou Tung

Sheng. As regards Fung Na Chun's clair to the ownership thereof,

he points out that the books seized when the coal was attached,

contradict Fung Na Chun's statement of accounts. The Viceroy has

applied to the Wai Wu Fu to call upon Your Excellency, through

His Majesty's Minister, to produce Kuang Hsun Chu, Fung's book-

-keeper, and have him brought up to Canton for cross-examination.

I should be glad if Your Excellency would

telegraph to his Majesty's Minister the purport of the Viceroy's

note enclosed, if in Your Excellency's opinion such a course

would serve any useful purpose.

دارم

i am communicating copies of the viceroy's

Letters of the 8th, and 15th. instant to dis Majesty's Minister

by mail.

Sir katthew Nathan, K.O.M.G.,

&0..

&c. Governor, Hongkong.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) James Scott,

Consul-Ceneral.