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Sir,
Enclosure.
C. O.
12525
REUZ
454
REG" 25 JUN C
Preblic Works Department,
Hongkong, 23. April, 1888.
beg most respectfully to ask the
Colonial Government to grant me a
passage for my wife.
and
face
family from -
England to Hongkong. There are three children aged respectively 6 years, I years,
6 years, 3 years, and 9 months. Owing to the separate maintenance
of my wife and family in England and great imponer of my lodgings in this Clony,
expenses
Ifeel that I shall derive no
& of the
benefit from the
appointèrent, unless I can get my wife.
quite
and family out here ; but dam; unable to pay for their passages; and,.
therefore,
breeet that
+ you will kindly assist
I have
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me in the matter and obliged.
The Honourable
J. M. Price,
2
Sof William Bidgood
Foreman Mason