COPY.
No. 586.
Enclosure No. 4 to Despatch No./22 of the
12th. March, 1903.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 14th. March, 1902.
Sir,
I am directed to request that an early
reply may be furnished to the letter from this Department of
the 27th. ultimo, respecting the rate of exchange for the pay-
ment of pensions out of the Widows and Orphans' Fund to
persons residing in a Gold-using Country.
2.
I am to add that the great delay which
has already occurred in dealing with this matter is causing
grave inconvenience,
The Honourable
C. P. Chater, C.M.GJ
I have etcns
(Sd.) J. H. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.