Sitting in this office, I am unable to find in the records any trace that you were born in Hong Kong.
In 1838/85...
Copy-
Sir,
49 Victoria, Hong Kong, 4th July, 1885
I have the honour to request you will have the goodness to lay the following application before His Excellency The Governor.
Understanding from Mr. Stewart that alienage might be an obstacle to my promotion in Her Majesty's Service, I respectfully pray His Excellency will move the Honourable M. T. Mercer, Acting Colonial Secretary, that...
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to have her diallands...
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be an obstacle to my birth...
fuse an...
Ho.
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