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I have to acknowledge
the receipt of your despatch No. 2 of the 10th,
reporting the return to Hong Kong of Messrs Deane & Creagh,
and remarking on the incompatibility of the duties to be discharged by the latter Officer in the two offices of Deputy Supt of Police, and Asst Supt of the Fire Brigade.
I caused this question to be referred to Sir R. MacDonnell, who will fully consider it on his return to the Colony. I hope that in the mean time the restoration of the Police Staff to its full strength will have obviated much of the inconvenience with which
you found the present arrangement to be attended when several of the