Acting Colonial Secretary to Mr. C. de Henne
(Copy)
No. 25.
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hong Kong, 5th January 1881.
I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, to inform you that you are charged with misappropriating monies amounting to $169 belonging to patients in the Civil Hospital and received by you as Steward for safe custody, in that you did not account for the same.
The grounds upon which this charge rests are contained in the following letters:-
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Mr. J. C. de Henne's letter of 20th December 1880.