years experience in Hongkong, as Harbour, Master, Magistrate, and Assistant Superintendant of Police; besides my service in the Navy, where, from the age of fourteen, I was continuously in command of men, and, in my last appointment in that service, I had command of a flotilla of Torpedo Boat Destroyers.
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3. I bow, of course, to the decision of the Rt: Hon: the Secretary of State, but it places me in a serious dilemma, for my doctor advises me that I ought not to return to Hongkong, after my illness there, this time last year, when I
was not expected.to live. If, therefore, I am unable to obtain a transfer to a better climate, I can see no course open to me save applying for pension from the Colony. This is a course which I am very loth to adopt, as I consider that the thirty two years.I have spent in the Government service justly entitle me to something more substantial than the £230 a year, or therea- -boots, which is the utmost I can expect to receive
I have the honour to be
Sir,
your most .obedient servant
Bunt Guys 7
Commander R.N.
Harbour Master &c:
(Hongkong).