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pleased to select Mr. Robinson, Senior Governor of Saint Christopher's, to succeed
and that you
will repair to Hong Kong at the earliest period. I have, in the meanwhile, to request that your Excellency will communicate to Colonel Caine that the Governor of Hong Kong being no longer vested with the office of Superintendent of Trade in China, Her Majesty's Government have deemed it right to abolish the Senior Governorship,
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He was Magistrate Secretary and Lt. Governor.
necessary.
To that Officer, the thanks of Her Majesty's Government are due for the services which he has rendered in his civil capacities in that Colony; and on receiving from him the usual statement of those services, for the purpose of submission to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, their Lordships will consider the amount of pension which it will be proper to accord him. I have to add my wish that