Louis
and many to the Lower being on brand try them from
are to
Sif there is no wind the
me Barrack to
Royal Artillery quarters being at the
West wing of the Hospital, salutes
cannot be fired from that nighter board acement of disturbing the sick. I owe also to state that should
the Secretary of State for this approve of the suggestions sent home, that on "Battery" if he built on the Sea Wall
loak of the Esplanade, Salutes might be fired from that place.
Form further to state, however, that their will not place the holders of Marine Lots, alluded to in my letter yesterday's date, in any bitter, them at prevent.
Jane Loney
Colonial Secretary..
-position
I have, Her, Wigned folum King Capt.,
Ina Major.
Page 4
(Copy) M:347.
Colonial Secretary's Office Victoria, Hong Kong,
18th May 1856.
In rejoinder to
Your letter Yesterday, I have the honor to convey to you the desire of His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief that some arrangement be immediately made for discontinuing the Murray-Battery as a saluting Battery, on the experience of a year's necessity of change.
His Excellency will be
will be obliged by the Lieut Colonel Commanding the Royal Artillery giving this subject his earliest attention. As regards
the proposed Battery alluded to in your
The From Major