CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 320

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I have the honour to transmit to Your

Excellency with a request that you will be good enough to bring

to the notice of the Chinese Government the facts I am about

to mention, copy of a letter from a resident in this Colony

enclosing copy of a communication addressed to him by the

Bommissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District. The cor-

-respondence relates to a trip which the Cormissioner complains

was made without previous permission from the Chinese Authori-

-ties, by a launch owned by Captain Burnie to a small bay in the

estuary of the Canton Rivor.

2.

It seems to me somewhat irregular that the

Commissioner of Chinese Customs should address an official

letter direct to a resident of Hongkong, without any reference

whatever to the Government of this Colony xxxxx by whose

courtesy the Commissioner has been permitted for a consider-

-able time past to transact business in po gkong pending the

completion of an office on Chinese Territory at Kowloon.

This Government had occasion to take

exception to this mode of communication being adopted under

similar circumstances by Mr. McLeavy Brown's predecessor

Morgan - and the Commissioner has now been requested to com-

-municate with His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton on

questions arising between his Department and residents x in

this Colony.

3.

Another point suggested by Mr. Mc.Loavy

Brown's letter is whether the Chinese Government recognise the

authority of the Kowloon Commissioner of Customs to demand that

pleasure launches and yachts owned and registered by English-

-men in this Colony, should obtain the permission of the Com-

issioner