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3. I trust, however, your Lordship will perceive from those communications that this Government has been from the first perfectly alive to its duties and responsibilities, and perfectly able to deal with them satisfactorily. I have, moreover, some hope that your Lordship has ere this become aware that you can derive as accurate information from the regular channel of communication on events occurring here, as from the parties, who transmitted the ill-judged and unreliable document which your Lordship has forwarded to me, on the part of a Committee of the Social Science Association. That paper is in fact so full of mis-statements and misconceptions that it seems quite useless to comment specially on any one part of it.

The Right Honourable

EARL GRANVILLE, K.G.,

HONGKONG.

No. 158.

I have, &c.,

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

Governor.

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State.

(From the Secretary of State to the Governor.)

DOWNING STREET,

7th October, 1869.

See page

xx.)

SIR,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 726 of the 21st June, enclosing documents and memoranda relative to the abuses existing in the "I-Ts'z" Hospital and suggesting the establishment of a new hospital for sick and moribund Chinese conditionally that its regulations and general superintendence be subject to Government control.

I approve of your suggestion and have to authorize you to contribute $10,000 from the Gambling Fund towards the erection of a Chinese hospital on the Chinese completing and paying into one of the Banks $15,000 towards the same object.

I also approve of an expenditure from the Fund of about $3,000 towards levelling and preparing a suitable site for the hospital for which provision is made in the Supple- mentary Report and Estimate No. 27 of 1869, enclosed in your despatch No. 742 of the 7th July; but I cannot sanction any annual contribution from that source towards its maintenance.

Governor SIR K. G. MACDONNELL, C.B.,

&C.

&c.,

dc.

I have, &c.,

GRANVILLE.

(See page xxxil.)

HONGKONG.

No. 181.

SIR,

`· (Despatch from the Secretary of State to the Governor.)

DOWNING STREET,

9th November, 1869.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 775 of the 18th August, furnishing further information in regard to the proposed new Chinese hospital.

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