Enclosure.
c.o.
1080
(per 9 JUN 30
117
• Colonial Chaplain to Acting Colonial Secretary's
Hopy)
2, Norrison Hill, Hongkong, 24th April, 1870.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 768 of the 10th instant, informing me of the telegram from Secretary of State stating : — "Passage cannot be provided for Acting Chaplain, doubtless Bishop can provide locally for divine Service during absence of Mr Jennings."
I beg now to repeat, with reference to the latter portion of this telegram, what I had stated to His Excellency the Governor before he left for England, viz: - that the Bishop distinctly informed me that it was impossible in the Colony, so far...
The Honble W. M. Deane,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
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