C.
Ir folherm
Sir
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Hongkong, 224
30 May
1866.
I have the honor to place
before you.
with
every certainty that it will receive favorable consideration my renewed application for removal from this chinate, or permission to 1031/64 retire on a suitable pension.
Similar Application has been
former rccasions, but without Success, and I here propose
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Sep?
the on
9558/63 briefly to state the ground, I confidently rely.
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which
I have served over 22 yeart
in Stonghong, a fact which cannot be shown in the case of any other officer
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The Colonial Surgeon, Dr 7896 159 Murray, has declared 15 years to be
the longest periods for which an European can endure the Hong Kong climate, as will be seen from the following extract from his enclosure The Right Stonorable
Edward Hardwell, M. P.,
Principal Lecretary of State
for the Colonies
to