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STATEMENT of the Gase with regard to the refusal dy the Government to allow Sir Francis Piggott to let his house for three months to Mr. Ho Tung.
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1. In the late summer of last year, as I was anxious to take 3 months' leave, I instructed Mr. Maitland, the agent to find me a tenant for my house The Eyrie. In due course he in- formed me that Mr. Ho Tung was desirous of taking it for a short period.
After an interview it was agreed that he should rent it for 5 months.
2. The interview took place one Sunday morning, The Eyrie is situate on the same Peak as the Governor's Summer residence, Mountain Lodge; it is at a slightly higher elevation, not more than 150 tp 200 yards distant; and the front garden overlooks the grounds of Muntain Lodge.
3. Mr. Ho Tung lives on the Peak at a lower level, and he informed me that he was suffering from (I think) asthma, and that he was anxious to take my house in order to get change of air, which he had been advised to have, and that he pro- posed to occupy the house only by himself and Mrs. Ho Tung. The height of the Eyrie and its aspect being very different from those of his own house, he hoped to derive much advantage from the change.
4. Mr. Ho Tung is the illegitimate son of a Chinese woman by a Scotchman formerly in Jardine Matheson's; his mother being herself the illegitimate child or another Scotchman also formerly in Jardine's. His name is I believe "Bowden": (it is given correctly in the correspondence, of which I have no copy) but he adopted a Chinese hame in order to become Compradore to Messrs. Jardine Matheson, from which position he has now retired with a considerable fortune. He dresses in European fashion, and is a well-dressed presentable man. Mrs. Ho Tung