cutive service. We performed his duty to my entire satisfaction. The public has sustained a great loss by his decease.
I have, &c. (Signed) G. B. Willier
Chief Magistrate.
Copy.
Police Department,
Hongkong, Sept. 4th 1848.
I have the honor to submit through you for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor, an appeal to the generous and kind feeling of Her Majesty's Government, in behalf of the widow and young daughter of the late Inspector Thomas Smithers, who was drowned while in charge of a boat employed in saving the wrecked during the typhoon.
2. Additional sympathy will be awakened by the knowledge of the fact that the only son, aged twenty, and who would have been a support...
G. B. Willier,
Chief Magistrate.