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another Colony, which I have asked you to be so good as to forward to the Secretary of State by the next Mail, I would beg leave to be allowed, in lieu of recapitulating them here, to invite a reference to that Memorial.
I would add, as the Memorial refers only to the effects of the hot damp months in Hongkong, that I should find it quite impossible, in the condition to which I have been reduced, to preside over a Retrenchment-Committee here in the winter, especially as I should then have a good deal to do in connection with the Estimates and other Council work.
but an early and permanent removal from Hongkong will enable me to do really satisfactory work again.
(Signed) G. B. M. O'Brien August 13th 1893
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