€3 and comfort to his mother, accompanied his father in and shared his fate. By the boat, this bereavement, the widow and child are reduced to absolute poverty, from CORR the deceased paid. the circumstance of having eighteen mouths since the passage of his wife and family from England, and the preceding eight months paid into the Colonial Treasury half his salary, (V.101.15.) in order to be entitled to the benefit of superannuation, the family have had only sufficient to maintain themselves.
and the useful A summary of the long services of the deceased, will enable His Excellency to judge of the strong claim the widow possesses that the bounty of the country should be extended to her. Mr. Smithers entered the London Police in 1830, and on the 20th May, resigned the 18/1/1, in order to be appointed from that date Inspector of the Hongkong Police. united service amounts to consequently his eighteen years and three months, and he would have been entitled to the benefit of superannuation for both services at the expiration of the Her Majesty's present year, Government had sanctioned that by paying at the rate live and a half per cent upon his present salary, for the service in London Police, and the usual five per cent since holding his present appointment. (L.138,12.4.), that a total sum of the two services would be amalgamated in deciding C..
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