For domestic reasons he would prefer not to
start before that date.
Or inquiry
I have also ascertained that the steamer will start earlier, whether or not the filling is so rapidly proceeding.
7 the filling so rapidly
Secure 1 that it will be difficult births to board them.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Elementi
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Si W. Hamilton
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No.
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Downing Street,
18 October 1899.
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Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that I have selected Messrs. Cecil Clements and John Roskruge Wood for appointment to Cadets in the Civil Service of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, and asked them for service in Hong Kong.
Their order of seniority is as above stated, and I enclose their certificates of qualification.
The Crown Agents will be desired to provide them, on their signing the usual agreement, with first-class free passages to the Colony by the Messageries Maritimes steamer leaving Marseilles on the 19th instant.
You will be good enough to give them a formal letter of appointment when they arrive in the Colony, stating that you appoint them on the terms embodied in their accompanying articles, a copy of which is enclosed.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
An Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong