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copies of further documents noted in the margin | 1. Mrs Falconer's letter of 12th March 1897 regarding the claims 2. Registrar's minute of Mr. Falconer,
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most Obedient
Jod 15th April, 1897, with Mr Holmes report and mr Robinson's opinion 3. Registrar's reply of 21st April, 1897 to Mrs Falconer.
Humble Servant,
Your
William Robinson
ENCLOSURE..
Mrs. Falconer to Governor Sir William Robinson
BA 21 27 3
Hong Kong 12th March 1897.
Sir,
Some friends in America and here have instructed me to appeal to your Grace and ask that respect be extended, which is due here, to the American Government, its Laws and its people.
We beg for a fair and impartial hearing in open Court to establish our claims. My friends say this is granted to British subjects in America, poor and rich alike, everything possible is done to help them get their rights regardless of expenses and that it is due us here.
The Honourable Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, granted us the privilege to bring suit, also Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. But the cry is now set up that the Falconer firm books have vanished and that there is nothing for us to get.
But that is no reason our case should not have a fair hearing in the Court and learn in a lawful way where the property and money is; and if gone who is in fault; also to clear up my name and a respectable law firm from Mathew Wilson alias Falconer's false insinuations of which he caused published in the Hong Kong newspapers, 22nd August 1895.
From the very fact of the books disappearing is