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Your most obedient Servant,
18th Frederick Stewart
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Colonial Surgeon
Government Civil Secretariat Hong Kong 6th August, 1880
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No 930 of the 4th instant in which
you remind me by direction of His Excellency the Governor, that up to this I have produced no evidence except my own statements in support of my Charges against D'Estrey.
Before replying further to your letter I beg to enquire whether I am to infer that His Excellency attaches no value to the evidence which I have already produced viz - my own statements and further what is the nature of the evidence which under the circumstances His Excellency has decided I must produce.
I have the honor to be,
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Your obedient Servant,
Here the Dr Stewart
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Colonial Surgeon
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No 953.
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Hong Kong 9th August, 1880
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before the Governor and I am directed by His Excellency to request you will either drop and withdraw the charges you have made against your professional colleague D'Wharry
or proceed to submit whatever evidence you think reliable in support of your Charges.
In reply to your enquiry as to the value of your own statements I am to point out that the amount of value to be attached to the evidence on each side can only be fully estimated when the conflicting testimony has been duly submitted for His Excellency's decision.
I have the honor to be,
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Your obedient Servant,
Fredrick Stewart
Act Colonial Secretary
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No 959
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Colonial Secretary's Office Hong Kong 10th August 1880
I have the honor by desire of the Governor to inform you that His Excellency thinks D. Wherry's report - (forwarded to this office by you on the 7th instant) on the proposed Fortification Plans is well deserving of
consideration and that the matter
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