No improper harshness be used towards the Emigrant-

The Passage was a very protracted

and severe one besides the

severe gales in coming

round

the

Cape

of

the

Good Hope for weeks,

three hurricanes were encountered

and the Carribean sea was many days. The Master and crew

were quite exhausted on

their

arrival, One or two of the latter died, and the Chief Mate was off duty two months.

(signed) The Stamber & Co.

Gov

1560

10080 Hong Kong

RECEIVED

NOV 7

1826

Lands

Emigration Office

6th November 1856.

83!

Draft Gr.528.

Gov. instructed. 17. 40075

N 127. 30 July

I have to acknowledge

your letter of

15th ulto. & enclosures

Despatch from

the Governor of Hongkong

enclosing a correspondence

between M. Fletcher a Merchant

of

Victoria and the Colonial Secretary, respecting Application

from

the

late

Mr.

Au

to be allowed

to extend his Marine lot

2 & 3 Bowring states

that the Marine lots which

M. Fletcher requests permission

to fill in and occupy

are

described as being

in

the

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