CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 234

ONFIDENTIA L.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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With reference to Your Lordship's

Confidential Despatch of the 18th. of January, I have the

honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information copy

of correspondence between Sir Matthew Nathan and the

Chief Justice on the subject.

2.

Sir Matthew Nathan has explained

in his Confidential Despatch of the 18th. ultimo that he

was not prepared to take any steps with a view to the

amendment of the law of Hongkong with the object of

endeavouring to meet the difficulties that arise in the

case of absconding bankrupts and contributories to

companies wound up by order of the Courts, but that he had

been in communication with His Majesty's Consul-General at

Canton on the subject of the suggestion that this Govern-

-ment and the Viceroy of the Two Kwang might come to some

reciprocal arrangement with regard to questions of

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

bankruptcy

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