if
the present plan and
Estimate is
approved, whether
he should defer its execution
the present or at once
for
it will proceed
more or less slowly.
I have
Y54. Miscellaneous
One? 100 chen Li
Further to you: 109-7 April
RECEIVED
OCT. 2 1848
My Lord,
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th July, 1848.
105
I have the honor to forward a letter
to Your Lordship's address from Mr. Palrides,
late Clerk in the Surveyor General's Office
in this Colony
Mr Tarrant, if I understand his
letter rightly, denies all intention of implicating Major Caine in the iniquities said to have taken
place among
the Chinese referred to in his letter,
and he states to me personally that he
never had said anything to anyone that could sanction
such a surmise, or give rise to such a report
His letter appears to me to request that he
may be again employed. Mr. Tarrant has not been in
the Government office
in service
since my arrival.
The Right Honorable, The Earl Grey,
&c
&c.