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Sir Ch. F. Elliot 1.8.63.
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~Tong /long,
Governor Bonham-
September, 1848.
The Earl
$75.
& Grey
1 Inclosure.
Received
Police Boat in the Typhoon drowned at the wreck of the Inspector Smithers, who was drowned and Child of the late Inspector to be sent to England to the care of...
Reporting grant of £100 for passage to England to the widow and Child of the late Inspector Smithers.
recommending that a pension of £50 per annum be granted to her.
Should the Pension be sanctioned the amount of the passage of the Widow & Child to this Colony to be shown as a grant then the further sum...
by the foregoing.
In 1846.
Coventry.
Mm N.Y.
11/1845
MINUTE 209
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I am directed by Earl Grey to transmit to you for the information of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong a Copy of a Despatch with it's Inclosure from the Governor of Hong Kong Reporting the death of the Wife and Child of the late Inspector Smithers, who were drowned in the Typhoon of 1st August.
The passage had been granted with a subsistence to this Colony at a cost...
The sanction of the Treasury for the expense of the Passage will certainly be applied for, & the question of a Pension in future "Must be referred to the Treasury but with favourable disposition of the latter.
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