have
my pension calculated.
under "the Pension Minute of 25 April 1870 and I now beg to forward a Pension Return
Enclosure 1st March, 1887.
calculated in accordance with
that Minute.
2
I presume that a
despatch is on its way granting my request of 18th June last, that I may be permitted to retire. The death of Sir G. Strahan of which telegraphic news has been received will, I
suppose, not make
any
difference.
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I would be glad to get away from
Hong Kong
in
a month or
five weeks from this, as
the state of my
health
renders it desirable that
I should not pass the next hot season here. At the same
time, I beg to state that I hold myself entirely at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government.
and am prepared to remain at my post until