Patty L
Sir
19.
8412 giong hong
Hottes Street 239 Cavendish Square W
25th August 1871.
AUC
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
Your letter of
informing
the 22nd Instant
me that the Earl
Kindly ceded to
Kimberley has very
my application for a further
leave of
extension of
absence
from Hong Kong for five month from the 21st October next, and I beg to express, through you my grateful thanks to Lord Kimberley for
thus complying
with the request contained in my
communication of
Mon: R.H.Meade
Colonial Office
Downing Street
The
W
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