DESPATCH.
Governor. No.
Received 14
Date.
1882 26 Jan
Last previous Paper.
Hong. Trong
No. 4422
(Subject.)
CO. 4422
286
RECR
REG 13 MAR
Compassionate allowance for Widowry
Police Officer Serjt. W. King &
P.C. J. A London.
Forwards correspondence & Minutes.
Recommends
182H&S1740)
(Minutes.)
Mr Meade
No allusion is made in this despatch or its Enclosures to the Sec. of State's desp. no. 100 of 18th August 1879 (on fro46) where it is laid
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down that applications for gratuities to the widows & families of deceased officers should be "except in most exceptional circumstances refused".
I fail to see much that is exceptional in the case of these two widows of police officers. Indeed after
many
minutes