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local Knowledge and experience. If
Commander Jones
I should, with the
concurrence (I
full
here,
'I concurrence
of the Executive Council, give
the
him.
provisional appointment subject to Your Lordship's confirmation; but
he recently returned to England the expiration of his last term of service. Probably Your Lordship's ... choice could not fall
on an
Officer
better qualified for this post. His address in England could be
ascertained at the Admiralty.
3.
The new Assistant Harbour
Master should be sent out
as soon as
possible. I annex the
usual paper of particulars of this
appointment.
I would request that I
may be informed by telegraph
when the new Assistant Harbour
Master
may
at Hongkong.
be expected to arrive
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant.
W. M. Bowen