It is intended that Hiero Garritt showed necessarily maintained all the expenses at the expense of the Colony.
I am, however, inclined to observe that the woman is stated by Hotchkiss to have acknowledged herself to be the Marchioness of Lansdowne.
I am sure that instructions have been prepared to the Consular officers in China, suggesting the making of inquiries at Shanghai regarding H.M. Canal at Amoy, who is destitute and of very doubtful sanity.
Under these circumstances, it appears probable that she became a burden on either a charitable institution or the local authorities.
3. Your Lordship will be charged only too gladly for the maintenance of the Colony's vagrant lunatic. You do not state in your letter under reference whether the letter from the Governor to Lyttelton trusts that your Lordship will have no objection to adopting this suggestion.
If it should prove that Florence Garrett is a national of something contemplated...