at the same time by permission
Communicate to
to your
time to time for your
to
Excellency from
Consideration
-note at this Port having
anything of m
any bearing reason
the subject of Mt.
Wade's Communication
to you referred
to at the beginning of
this letter.
I have ...
(signed) W. H. Pedder,
The
Colonial Secretary.
(signed) J. Gardiner Austin,
Colonial Secretary.
Straits Set Nr 21
To Sir H. Ord.
MINUTE MY
of Brewers ... #Huresson
and Kimberley
JAN
W.O.
750 Hongkong
Guter
Sir,
The Sec:
400
27 January 1871
of State for
War has informed me that
the General Officer Commanding
at Hong Kong has recommended
that, having regard to the possible necessity of detaching a portion of his garrison for the protection of Amoy, the left wing of the 75th Foot be ordered from Singapore to Hong Kong.
Mr Cardwell had in reply informed ... that under existing circumstances, he does not consider it necessary to give immediate orders for the removal of the wing of the European Regiment from Singapore to Hongkong, but that