Enclosure 1. 16732
IREC
(Ref 2 NOT 93)
550
From: J. H. Whitehead to Col. Secretary.
Hongkong, 26th Aug 1872
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. UPS. dated the 12th instant.
In this letter, you acknowledge, by direction, my note of the 8th August to the A.D.C., conveying my final refusal to serve on the Retrenchment Committee, appointed by His Excellency the Governor. You inform me that, for the reasons stated in the second paragraph of your letter, to which I shall presently refer more fully, His Excellency has received my refusal with no little...