green pers
primo meh
my
Silly Letter from
by
Bridge's. the
fent acting Col
itary at It Kong.
M. Hickson,
1
My Dear Sir.
210938/57
Holywood Road. Jan » 18. t. 1857.
I am most willing to be of any use by ou
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in
my power, whether in the
way of advice. or otherwise. Twom what I have myself observed and from conversations held with others, I am of opinion that the Leveral fructions at present imposed upon you
Lums which
you
are
beyond the capacity of any one man
unsupported by a good staff of flecks beary out, and the more souchen that man is a Changer to the Colony as you are ; The
state you
have to pay for an office & a cluck 40 Dollars per month, substract £ 104 per aux : from your income, and when the hot weather commences you Further obliged to keep tivo chain Coolies which will take away austher £30 : Rrivate practice to, in your case, quite out of the
will be
question as your official duties must more than occupy
you
time : The price of every thing in the Colony is on the rice and in the most moderate times I do not consider that a man
in
have
you
stati a
a more
your position could have the neussaries of life for less than £ 400 per ann: With the hot weather will also come
limitlid capacity for allinding to business. I have therefre us hesilation in stating that every day you remain in the Colony is more likely to add to your difficulties than to free you from them ; you
wife and family dependant upon you at home, while out here you certainly will be of to 4 them in a pecumians. other view, at home, they will at any rate be spared the anxieties of seperation and you yourself will not have the perils of a Hong Kong secumer befue you ; I have, therefore,
no hesilation in saying - do not
и
any
remain
ule