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In any further communica-

tion on this subject, please quote

No.

8223/09.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

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Sir:-

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter No. 796 of the 21st.

of January last, with its enclosures, respecting the

Constitution of the proposed Court of Appeal at Hong-

kong.

In reply I am to state for the information of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, after care-

fully perusing the correspondence forwarded in your

letter, Sir E. Grey has reluctantly come to the conclu-

sion that this correspondence displays a complete ab-

sence of that spirit of cordiality and good will on

the part of the Chief Justice without which the scheme

could never have succeeded.

As you are aware the condition that Sir H. de Saus-

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marez was in the Appeal Court to take precedence of the

Chief Justice, was neither suggested by Sir H. de Saus-

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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