ARA
C. O P Y.
No.115,
Enclosure 1.
479
20799 REC
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Rec 21 JCT 9
Sir,
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 13th September, 1899,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 1483 dated 5th instant and I note with very
great regret, that the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, had been unable to see sufficient grounds, for modi-
fying the conditions under which he approved of my appointment
as Postmaster General.
I venture once more to approach the Right
Honourable the Secretary of State on the subject, through His
Excellency the Governor, and therefore respectfully ask, that you
will be good enough to lay this further letter before His Excel-
lency, who I trust, may with the additional facts, hereafter set
forth, see sufficient reason, to make a further, and stronger
representation, on my behalf.
Should I, in my endeavours to make a strong
case, appear somewhat to deal in personalities, I ask pardon for
so doing, as the subject matter is of vital importance to me and
it is necessary that I should omit nothing, pertinent to the case.
In my letter of the 29th May last, I
described