Duplicate
No:5
Executive
Je
RECEIVED
SEP 1 1 1844
1498 Hongkong
88
Government House, Victorie,
Hongkong, 17" May, 1844
My - Serd.,
On reaching this Colony, one of the first events brought to my notice was the following,
On the 12 Instant, a quantity of treasure consisting of 12,000 Rupees was dispatched from the Commissariat Department to Chek choo, the military post on the south side of the island where a body of European troops are quartered. This was conveyed in a Chinese boat with a native crew, and guarded by five or six soldiers. On approaching close to Chekchoo in the darkness of the night, they were suddenly attacked by a pirate boat carrying ...
The Right Honorable, Lord Stanley.
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