E being made to her.
2. I may mention that, had Mr. Barradas lived but a few weeks longer, he would probably have received about $1000 as gratuity in lieu of pension, it being evident that he could never resume duty.
His total service under the Government was about eleven years.
3. Mrs. Barradas' letter is very well expressed; and shows her to be a person of education and refinement. She has always lived in Singapore, and I venture to suggest that an application to the Government of that Colony would elicit all particulars. I am told there are no children.
4. But as it had been broken into by a period during which he was engaged in business, I had advised him not to advance any service claim except for his 8½ years as Marine sorter, and his application in regard to this was practically written.
I know nothing of Mrs. Barradas except from her letter, which Mrs. Barradas tells me that her husband had only been relieved from the maintenance of a widowed mother and a sister a few months before he was taken ill, that he was thus prevented from making any provision for her, and that she is left without any means whatever.
5. I have already expressed