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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's letter of 30th August relative to the request or suggestion, made by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, that the possibility of coming to some arrangement with the Portuguese Government for obtaining execution of Hongkong judgments in Macao should be considered. I am much obliged by Your Excellency's courtesy in asking for my opinion, as the question of the execution of foreign judgments is one which I take a great interest in, as well generally, as specially in connexion with the judgments of the Hongkong Courts.
2. I have no hesitation in saying that it is essential to the good of the commercial community that an effort should be made to redress the grievances under which they suffer, owing to the easy method of evading payment of judgment debts, which the smallness of Hongkong and the proximity of the mainland of China furnish to judgment debtors: and I must further state that the case to which Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist refer is an exceptionally bad one.
3. Macao and Canton stand in this respect on the same footing. The question of making some attempt to improve the present state of affairs with regard to Canton has been the subject of correspondence for the last 2 years, but many difficulties have been raised, as Your Excellency will see from a perusal of the papers. But none of those difficulties exist in the case of the Portuguese Colony of Macao, and I have little doubt that the Portuguese Government would be willing to make some arrangement with this Colony in order to bring about
His Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,
Governor of Hongkong.
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I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel-
-lency's letter of 30th. August relative to the request or
suggestion, made by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, that the
possibility of coming to some arrangement with the Portuguese
Government for obtaining execution of Hongkong judgments in
Macao should be considered. I am much obliged by Your Excel-
-lency's courtesy in asking for my opinion, as the question of
the execution of foreign judgments is one which I take a great
interest in as well generally, as specially in connexion with
the judgments of the Hongkong Courts.
2.
I have no hesitation in saying that it is
essential to the good of the commercial community that an
effort should be made to redress the grievances under which
they suffer, owing to the easy method of evading payment of
judgment debts, which the smallness of Hongkong and the proximi-
-ty of the mainland of China furnish to judgment debtors: and
I must further state that the case to which Messrs. Wilkinson
and Grist refer is an exceptionally bad one.
3.
Macao and Canton stand in this respect on
the same footing. The question of making some attempt to in-
-prove the present state of affairs with regard to Canton has
been the subject of correspondence for the last 2 years, but
many difficulties have been raised, as Your Excellency will see
from a perusal of the papers. But none of those difficulties
exist in the case of the Portuguese Colony of Macao, and I have
little doubt that the Portuguese Government would be willing to
make some arrangement with this Colony in order to bring ahout His Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,
Governor of Hongkong.
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