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STATEMENT showing the Age, Service in the Colony, and actual Salary of his Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Acting Governor of Hong Kong.
Age: Sixty years.
Service: Eighteen years and twenty-one days, up to the 20th May, 1859, inclusive.
Actual Salary for the last three years: £2,250 per annum.
W. CAINE.
operations against Canton, I am directed by the Chief Superintendent to inform you that he regrets he cannot deem it right to accede to your request.
The duties of your office at Hong Kong will not permit you to leave that place, at a moment when no other officer of the Government is on the spot, and the Chief Superintendent is well assured you must feel with him that while in the office you now hold, it necessarily becomes your duty to forego (however painfully) the privilege of being with your corps, in any military operations in which it may be engaged.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. ROBT. MORRISON.
Captain Caine, Chief Magistrate, Hong Kong.
True copy;
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hong Kong, 21st May, 1859.
AMOUNT of Superannuation Deductions from the Salary of the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, received into the Treasury chest during the period commencing the 1st May, 1841, and ending the 31st July, 1857.
Period From To Appointment Amount deducted May 1st, 1841 April 12th, 1854 Chief Magistrate and Colonial Secretary and Auditor £950 0 9 April 13th, 1854 July 31st, 1857 Lieut.-Governor, at the rate of £2,250 per annum £361 11 11True copy.
(Signed) FREDK. FORTH,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Copy, No. 131.
Sir,
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"Louisa," off Canton, May 22, 1841.
With reference to your note of the 19th instant just received, wherein you request that you may be granted ten days' leave of absence to rejoin your corps during the present
Copy.
My Lord,
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49, Albemarle Street, October 26, 1844.
I trust that Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington Commanding in Chief, &c., will pardon me for intruding my respectful and earnest recommendation in favour of Brevet-Major Caine, of Her Majesty's 26th Foot, whose application to obtain an unattached majority is, I believe, at this moment under his Grace's consideration.
It is, I feel, totally unnecessary for me to trespass on his Grace's attention with any details of Major Caine's long military services, as I know that those details have been forwarded to your Lordship, by Major-General D'Aguilar Commanding Her Majesty's Land Forces in China; but I may perhaps be permitted to bear the strongest testimony to the unceasing zeal and laborious exertions, combined with great judgment and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance with which Major Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong, from the moment that colony was taken possession of by my predecessor in May 1841, till the day I quitted it in June 1844.
Those duties, though strictly coming under the Civil Department, were, in many instances, purely such as would have been required from a military commander; and I do not hesitate to record my opinion, that up to the conclusion of the war, the safety and well-being of Her Majesty's subjects who had located themselves on the island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example.
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