C.B. O. N. 18.
Hongkong: 14th January, 1872. (Received 14 January, 1872.)
Chief Justice
Smale
To
Colonial Secretary
(From: J. Gardiner Austin.)
&
Leave of Absence.
Conveys thanks for the grant of - and request that the Gazette relating thereto may be published after delivery of Judgment pending before him.
Enclosure N. to Governor. Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell Dispatch N. 918 of 9 January, 1872
Copy.
Hongkong.
203
57
Colonial Secretary's Office,
10th January 1872.
I am instructed by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge receipt of yours of this day and to inform you in reply that His Excellency is desirous of meeting your wishes as far as he can; and therefore, he will leave to be gazetted.
The Honorable
Chief Justice Smale,
&c., &c., &c.