Sin
Enclosure
RECO
C. O. 9452
REGO 16 MAY 87,
Police Office,
91 Hong Kong, 3rd April 1887.
I have the honour to apply that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will be pleased to place before the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, this application for transfer to another Colony,
a true copy.
2.
The step is taken by me after nearly twenty years' service here, as there does not appear to be the shadow of a chance of promotion open to me; on the contrary, I appear to be gradually moving in the opposite direction.
The Hon'ble Dr. Frederick Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary.