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importation of opium for smoking. Lord Crewe

has been in communication with the India Office

with regard to the suggestion made in the last

sentence of the telegram; but inthe opinion

of the Secretary of State for India in Council

with which His Lordship concurs, the matter

cannot be regarded as coming within the scope

of the Enquiry &, defeined lytte ter gost of less, and it is therefore not profound onference

i want the

Completion to the

As regards Weihaiwoi, the enciozed

copies of correspondence with the Commissioner

will inform you of the present position in

respect of that Protectorate; and, as regards

Ceylon, in addition to the papers furnished

to you by the Foreign Office,you have re-

ceived, in the letter from this department

of the 13th ultimo, the draft of the Ordin-

ance which the Governor

proposes to in-

troduce