desire to be informed what
Course should be taken
in the
sick
matter, observing that if it be found desirable to send persons to Hongkong from want of proper accommodation for
Shanghai,
it would seem
that the Hongkong foot should
be consulted beforehand and all
expenses reimbursed.
In applying for sanction to Charge his Account with this Office the outlay incurred in Wallace's case, Mr. Hughes transmitted Copies of Correspondence which had passed upon the subject in 1884 between himself and Sir H. Parkes, who appears to have thought that England was the man's domicile, for he instructed Dr. Hughes to take an early opportunity of forwarding him to this country. But Mr Hughes omitted to inform Sir H. Parkes that Wallace had a father living at Shanghai in a good position & supporting his son. The Consular Vote might have been indefinitely saddled with the Charge for the idiot's maintenance, had not Mr Alabaster's action in sending him to Hongkong raised the whole question.
I am not aware of any legal process by which the father can be made to pay for the cost of sending his son to Hongkong. The idiot was sent thither on Mr. Alabaster's responsibility and the loss will probably...
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