(Copy)
Enclosure 2
from the Commandant Hong Kong Volunteers
to
His Excellency Sir G. A. Bowen L.C.M.G. Governor
F.R.V.
of Hong Kong.
Hongkong, July 30th, 1883
Sir,
The Hong Kong Artillery Volunteers now numbering 75 have on loan from the Ordnance Department only 33 Snider Carbines.
A requisition for 150 Martini Henry Carbines and accoutrements was forwarded in October 1882, but as yet these Carbines have not arrived in the Colony. I have the honour, therefore, to forward another requisition