House of Common
Admiri
Agent
approved by the Procurator Fiscal on whose recommendation they have been appointed; they have passed a satisfactory Medical Examination before D. Littlejohn, the Surgeon to the Edinbrugh Police Force, who
has certified, the men are healthy and well suited for service in the climate of Hongkong.
in' Each case
that
Having been in communication with the Peninsular & Onental Company and with McAlfed Holt of
Mew
tionfrol as reparts passages of there
and having been informed that of seat by the boats of the former Company the charge would be at the
rate
rate of £50 per
man, &clusive
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of the cost of transit this Egypt, but if by Mr Bolt's steamers, ein
the Snez Canal, the cost would be
at the rate of
£28 per
Jaw
св
& accepted Mr Holt's offer; and the first party of twenty left Liverpool in his steamer Parpedon on the 22 instant : the remaining
25 are
to follow in the Steamer "Glaucas" on the 23 instant.
rd
The Crown Amts were fortunate
in securing the assistance of the Procurator Fiscal in this walter
without whose aid it would have
been receedingly difficult to have obtained the required
number of
men Experienced
Police duties, and I have
(after consultation with you)
informed