Your Lordship will be good enough to allow me refund of my passage money (which I have paid myself) from the Hongkong Government to which all Police Officers retiring from the service have hitherto been allowed.
I have the honour to be Your Lordship's Most humble & obedient servant late Inspector of Markets Hongkong.
18.4.86. Hong Kong
Sw. C. O. 517 15316 RECE REGE 27 AUG 86,
Police Office 24 June 1886
With reference to Govt: Orden No. 1381 19 June 1886, I have the honour to report for the information of the Officer Administering the Government that Mre W. M. Deane, late Inspector of Police has intimated his intention on arriving in England of appealing to the Right Honble the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the refusal of His Excellency to grant him and his family passages to England. I have to
Actg Colonial Secretary.
Capt of Police