34.
35
same as
Neg.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
(Copy)
No 260.
Ser
No 41
310
Colonial Secretary's office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
28th March, 1860.
His Excellency The Governor has
received a
Report
on the defalcation recently
discovered in the Harbor Master's Department,
and instructs me to address you
point out that the sum
direct, and
of $1,000, due on 5
Emigration Brokers' Licenses, is unaccounted
for by you, and that this sum must be paid into the Colonial Treasury by 4. P.M. tomorrow :
You acknowledge that
you
received these
monies, and state that you paid them over to the late Mr. Newman, then lying sick at his own house; but
Mr. Gunthorpe says
you give no satisfactory