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in the

Jam ambitions and have been quite independent, but that I'm looking for promotion to

Colonial Secretary, if I prefer to serve by country in Hong Kong and aspire to reach higher rank. Service in which I have already

devoted the greater part of my life.

I am

a son of one

also

**

Law

Adviser, Attorney General, and

Chief Justice

I take the liberty of appending

copy of

Minute which Sir William

gave good reason for the Crown, and

Robinson wrote when I said that to

I venture to claim some consideration for my service as Acting Treasurer in 1892,

on that account.

I would like to add that I

have private means which enable me

and to live in a better style

As

my direction

was addressed

to A. Blake, the

Colonial

Secretary, on my vacating the post defining

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