for the first year, and to increase at the rate of £250 per year until it shall be £500; after that to be subject to any arrangement that may be agreed upon. I wish to be provided with a residence there and first-class passage out and home; destination to be decided later, and to London; Salary to count from date of engagement until my arrival in London.
Three months' notice on either side to terminate the engagement.
Jam[es] Th[omas] Kyrle.
Rawl[inson, presumably the name] Eg[erton, presumably the surname]
All Letters to be addressed to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Copy sent 28 Dec
Answered 16 Jan/67
149
11752
12:202. Hong Kong 12202 via
To
206
Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Spring Gardens - London
26 December 1866
RECEIVED
DEC 26
1866
Referring to your letter of the 20th instant, in which the Crown Agents for the Colonies were informed that a Treasury Certificate for £5000 - transmitted by the Governor of Hong Kong in his despatch No. 149 of the 28th October last - had been forwarded to the Treasury, with a request that it should be taken as part payment of the recent advance of £10,000.,
allow me to suggest that the amount should first be placed to the credit of the account of the Crown Agents at the Bank of England and then be paid...