The Secretary to
The Admiralty.
Mer Gairdner
WCantwell
TImate 1306/14
-12612/65.
Sut
Sir,
286 Downing H.
10 March 1866.
I am directed by
Mr. Secretary Cardwell, to
acquaint you, for the
information of the Lord's Commissioners of
Admiralty,
that Mr John
Smale, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Colony
of Hong Kong
in the
place of Mr Henry Adams,
deceased; and that he
would, ex officio, succeed to the Office of Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court