468
to England via Shanghai, I
...
beg to request your Excellency the Governor to cause this copy to be forwarded to its destination through the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I have to
(Signed) Mr. St. Rennie
Auditor General
M: 20.
Financial
Treasury
464.
...
RECEIVED
6
1859.
Colonial Government Offices, Hongkong,
Hongkong, 12th October, 1859.
Hongkong,
My Lord Duke,
I have had the honour
to receive your Grace's despatch No.9 of the 5th August last with its ... inclosures, requesting an explanation of the circumstances under which
the Imperial Grant of £7,000 voted
for the special Services of creating Barracks and Hospital had been drawn from
the Commissariat chest
in 1858.
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
No.
Xc.