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SIR,

HONGKONG.

DESPATCHES RESPECTING APPOINTMENT OF A CHINESE CONSUL AT HONGKONG.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, on the 15th October, 1891.

DOWNING STREET,

7 July, 1891.

I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for your information with reference to his despatch No. 107 of 21st May last the documents specified in the annexed Schedule, on the subject of the proposal to appoint a Chinese Consul at Hongkong.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

The Officer Administering the Government of

(Copy.)

Date.

26 June

HONGKONG.

humble Servant,

ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

Description of Document.

Despatch from Foreign Office to British Embassy at Peking.

Foreign Office to Sir J. Walsham.

Νο. 54.

SIR,

FOREIGN OFFICE,

June 26, 1891.

With reference to my telegram No. 36 of the 24th instant, and to previous correspondence, I have to inform you that Sir HALLIDAY MACARTNEY recently called at the Foreign Office, and said that the difficulty with regard to the appoint- ment of a Chinese Consul at Hong Kong had not been removed.

He stated that the Yamen hal recommended the Emperor to refuse the offer of Her Majesty's Government to grant an Exequatur in the first instance for one year, on the ground that if it were withdrawn at the end of that period, the inci- dent would bear the appearance of a severe rebuff to the Chinese Government,