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Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, I venture to address Your Lordship, touching the appointment, I have the honour to hold in this Colony, and
forward here with, copies of the correspondence that has passed
on
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whilst I was serving
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me the post of Song
Assistant Harbour Master in
Hong Kong
at a salary of two thousand two hundred and forty
dollars
per annum, equivalent to five
hundred and fifty pounds a year,
for full pay leave in
£550
pension &c.
The Right South
The Secretary of State for the Colonies
Downing Sheet
London
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England,
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My Lord,
Harbour Office
17
697
4 July 1890.
With the sanction of
His Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, I venture to address Your Lordship, touching the appointment I have the honour to hold in this Colony, and forward herewith copies of the correspondence that has passed on the subject.
2. Your Lordship was good enough, whilst I was serving in St. Lucia, to offer me the post of Assistant Harbour Master in Hong Kong at a salary of two thousand two hundred and forty dollars per annum, equivalent to five hundred and fifty pounds a year, with full pay leave, pension, &c.
The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Downing Street, London, S.W., England,