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Hong Kong. Saturday Evening 8th Dec 1849
In claiming your Excellency's attention to the Case of the Queen & Tarrant v others, which was dismissed in consequence of the absence of Lo Keen Heen alias Lomquen day, alias Lo = chong, Compradore, lately in the employment of The Honorable Major William Caine Colonial Secretary,
I have now the honor to inform you, that the said Individual is at present residing with Lo a king, otherwise Aqui, in the lower Bazar in this Town, and as client Int. Tarrant informs me,
that Major Caine has stated to your Excellency his opinion, that the said person was in the habit of extorting moneys in his name from the Lessee of the central market. Trust that as any character is at stake through the aspersions cast upon him by the Colonial Secretary, and which were not cleared up in consequence of the alleged absence of the individual referred to,
that your Excellency will be pleased to cause such proceedings to be adopted against the said Lo Keen Heen, as to your Excellency in your discretion shall seem fit.
His Excellency
S. G. Bonham Esqre Cr.
&c. &c. &c.
Your
I have the honor to be
Your Excellency's obt humble servt
(signed) Mesaskell
P.S. I have to apologise for intruding upon your Excellency's attention at this late hour on the evening of Saturday but must be permitted to plead as my excuse that the information above referred to has only just come to my knowledge
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