Being about lunch allowance
could be gained here.
Advance of salary
Mr. Bowring has addressed a Public Despatch to the Secretary of State imputing to me the appointment of a person wholly unfit for the Office for which he was selected, I have thought it necessary to place before you the facts I have stated in this letter, and I shall be glad
if you should think it right to communicate them
to Sir J. Bowring.
I remain very faithfully
Caine
The Right Honourable
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till in the
qualifications wanted for the accountant sent to Hong Kong?
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The qualifications are
simply those of
an ordinary accountant.
They young man from