RAFT.
Hong Kong No
Governor
Sir G.W. des Voeux, K.C.M.G.
Hong Kong
9916/90
486
Cancelled See amended Draft
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MINUTE.
Mr. Johnson
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Mr. Fairfield
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston
X Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
No 111 16 April '88
116 2 April 89
339 3 Nov '89
112 21 April '90
65. 10 March
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January
see further minutes.
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Sir,
Downing St.
January, 189.
I regret that your Despatches noted in the margin forwarding Returns of gratuities granted to certain Officers retired from the Hong Kong Service have hitherto, by an oversight, remained unanswered.
2. These gratuities which were calculated on the basis of one month's pay for each year of service as laid down in Lord Kimberley's Despatch No 177 of 22nd December 1873, have my approval; but I have to point out that that Despatch was, originally in my opinion, intended to apply only to Chinese Officers who under...
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