Acknowledgement of Vacancies in certain Offices under your Government, as confirmed by Lord Gray's Despatch of the 23rd February 1850, the Salary of the Attorney General will be $1000 per annum instead of its previous amount of $1500.
Hong Kong, 30th October 1855
Oct. S. 412
I beg to acknowledge with thanks your notification, under date the 29th inst., on the subject of my passage money; informing me that though the Secretary of State could not pledge himself at liberty to grant any remuneration in respect of it, a contract passage shall be ordered for me on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's vessels; whereby some reduction will be made in the cost of the passage.
It is, however, my grateful duty to state that the highly liberal Company should lose no time in letting the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Downing Street, know...