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on the subject set out in General Lagard's letter, will be reprint and reproduced in the narrative, which will even more effectually prove that to heap honours on His Excellency is a cruel stroke of irony and cast ridicule upon the public flow of honours.
The Right Sir George Ferguson Bowen Governor is a Comm...
Your Predial Servant
N. B. This letter is written hurriedly but the narrative will have more care bestowed upon it: & Another copy is herewith enclosed -
Siv MOUNT MASCAL BEXLEY, KENT. 19. February 1889
I with all deference venture to apply for the Governorship of Hong Kong which I see has just become vacant by the death of Sir G. Strickland, a soldier who gained him the position that Governorship of a Colony. My position as a soldier and as the senior member of the Executive Council of the Straits Settlements - I have presided at the head of both the Executive Councils.
The Right Honourable The Secretary of State Colonial Office London
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