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of Your Honour's letter of the 20th. Instant in which you ask

that your claim against the Government arising out of the

refusal of the Governor-in-Council to grant exemption to Ar. Ho

Tung from the operation of Ordinance No. 4 of 1904 may be made

the subject of a friendly arrangement or ray he submitted to

friendly arbitration.

In reply I desire to point out to you that

this question has, at your request, already been referred to the

Secretary of State who has given a final decision upon it. Such

reference of the case in which you differed from the Government

may in itself be considered to be in the nature of arbitration,

and there is no reason whatever why the Secretary of State

should decide in favour of the Government rather than of Your

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Honour.

The Arbitrator having decided against you,

it is not reasonable to ask that the question be referred to

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