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would be made on the subject. Your Grace also remarked that observation must be reserved.
My desire for any a time with respect to for a retiring Allowance.
Another year has elapsed, another upon; I have begun my Seventeenth year of Hongkong Summer is entered to ask am Hongkong Service, and I am compelled to ask Your Grace's consideration of my now repeated request for permission to retire from Her Majesty's Service on a Pension.
for me fitting It is not, I presume, necessary to recapitulate the arguments advanced in my letter to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, I would however respectfully invite a reference to them.
Since that letter was written, Colonel Caine and Mr Hulme have had retiring Allowances assigned them. My service extends over a longer period than that of the latter gentleman, (who, moreover, was not, as I am, a subscriber to the latest Superannuation Fund,) and it about equals that of the former Gentleman, taking into calculation the period during which Colonel Caine was not in the active discharge of public duties.
In my former letter I begged reference to Sir John Davis and Sir George Bonham, as Governors under whom I had served, and I learn from both these gentlemen that they have recently made a joint and personal