CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 296

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(Ese 9 JAN 08

We trust therefore that Sir Edward Grey will take

some steps to redress the unjust treatment complained

of, and now that the actual facts have been ascertained

by him we venture to hope that the delay will not be

as great as in the past.

We shall feel obliged if you will kindly send a

copy of this letter to the Foreign Office.

نیم

Yours, &c.,

(Signed)

Geo. Armstrong and Sons.

35262/07.

WOREIGN OFFICE,

Gentlemen:-

294

November 278,1907.

With reference to your letter of the 24th.

ultimo and to previous correspondence relative to the

payment of duty on the estate of the late Mrs. Janet

Harmon, I am directed by Secretary Sir E.Grey to

form you that a report on the subject has now been

received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai,

Sir E.Groy is advised that Companies such

as the Shanghai Gas Company are registered at HongKong

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because no means exist of registering a concern at

Shanghai as a British Company.

These Companies are in fact purely local

Shanghal concerns and the practice has grown up of re-

garding shares held in them as assets within the juris-1

diction of the Shanghai Supreme Court and consequently

liable to probate fues there and passing under a Shang-

In practice these shares have not been

hal probate.

Beacre.King,Wigg and Company,

11, Queen Victoria Street,

E.C.

regarded