Confidential
MINUTE. July
Mr. Olivier 1 and 8
Mr. Lucas 8
Mr. Fairfield. [8
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Branston,
Mr. Meade.
Mr. Buxton.
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Marquess of Ripon, 2 o
2 drafts.
further minutes
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Sir,
Downing Street,
26 July 1893.
I have given very careful consideration to your Confidential despatch of the 26th of April last reporting upon the serious defalcations which have occurred in the Hong Kong Treasury, and enclosing copies of the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of that Department, and of correspondence with Public Officers arising out of that Report.
2. It appears from these papers that Alves, the late first Clerk in the Treasury, embezzled in the course of the five years 1888 to 1892 nearly $63,000 of public money, and the circumstances which enabled him to do this are very clearly explained by the Commissioners, to whom the Colonial Government is indebted for a very careful and clear Report. I concur in their conclusions
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