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Government House, Hong Kong,
9th January, 1879.
My Lord,
I have the honor to report
that Chief Justice Smale having applied to me for leave of absence on the ground of ill health, I laid his application before
The Right Honorable
The Earl of Kimberley
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,
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