it by a hill for any damage done to the
Buit
" stores Employed by St. Michael's Forces. It may perhaps therefore deserve the consideration
of the Secretary of
State for Now whether it is worth while
it be politic, for the sake of any small nature of this kind, to impair the goodwill derived in the Colonies from services of the present nature.
No.
Shing Kong 10458 Hong Kong
It is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted and the Letter addressed to-- The Under Secretary of State for War,
War Office,
London,
Answered
29 October 1868.
Copy Govt. info. 194-27 here!
Dr. C.
Sir
(S.W.)
RECEIVED
SEP 22 1868
WAR OFFICE,
503
21st September 1868
In reply to your
letter
of the of instant, I am
directed by the Secretary of
State for War to enclose for the information of His Grace the Duke of
Buckingham
and Chandos,
Copy of
the
herein
Report
referred to, together with
a list
9478 stores destroyed by
fire
at
Hong
the
Government
the
fires
of the 25th
November last
Your obedient Servant
Under Secretary
of State for the Colonies
&
Colonial Office
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