557
would be quite refraining,
and
repent
Ap
the length of my service in that colony.
5. My Estimate
based also
of any life-for pension, the pensions
62704
granted about the same time to my contemporaries,
I
MacBride, Wrbeslander & others, also to
In J. Smith who joined two years later than
1896 1897
I did and retired in
pension of
over £600. p.a.
6. The importance of
with Ca
the matter we
personally, will I hope prove a sufficient
Excuse for my troubling you further in the matter, the fact
Counted
I am confidently,
a peer in of the £50
per
fumin Ceylon, for many years past.
I have to honour the
Jour
obedient servant
Avernes by. but Dow Hongkong.