Department of the Public
in this country,
Judges
would
in which
augmenting knowledge
calculated to be useful
To you in the performance of your duties at Hong Kong.
Mr. S. T.
A. Waddington Paymaster
MINUTE
Aales 5 W Elliot Sart Rogers
A Forster M. Cardwell
Ance! 8511
Confidential
Hong Kong
17th March 1866
I am directed by the Secretary Cardwell to acquaint you, for the information of Sir George Grey, that Mr. Walter Meredith Deane, Interpreter at Hong Kong, late being Registrar and an officer of several Courts in that Colony,
It being necessary for him to be at present on
leave of absence in this country,
and is likely to be largely employed
when present in
that Colony,
and is desirous of being attached for a few months
to some Department in the Home Service, without
remuneration, in order to
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