Confidential
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Rec 29 MAY 33
Government House,
Hongkong 26th April,1873.
My Lord Marquess.
I regret to have to report the occurrence of serious defalcations in the Treasury.
On the 2nd of February last the Treasurer informed the Colonial Secretary that Alves, the first clerk of the Treasury, had disappeared, and that the local Auditor had discovered defalcations
The Right Honourable
The Marquess of Kimberley, K.G.
etc.