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Governmentorse.
15th June 1914.
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Sir,
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Referring te correspondense ending with your Seoret
Despatch of 29th Sept: 1911, I have the honour to
inform you Sir F.Piggott, who came here from Peking
some months ago for an inclusive fee of $10,000 to defend Chung Sau-Nan whosť extradition had been applied
for by the Chinese Goverment, fell ill of severe asthma some six weeks ago. The soughing indused by this ailment
appears to have driven a alot of blood to the minor
Tossels of the brain with the result that the patient lost his reason for a time and narrowly escaped paralysis.
His medical adviser ordered him to England and it then became apparent that he could not leave the Colony as he
was so deeply in debt that he had not funds to pay his hotel bill nor his doctor, nor his murse nor his passage
to London. I was approached by the aeting Chief Justice for pecuniary assistance out of publie funds, and in the circumstances I very rolustantly provided Sir F.Piggott
with a passage to England out of the vote for passage
and relief of destitutes at a sost of £50 by a Japanese
steamer which sailed on the 3rd instant. THe members of
the Bar and Solicitors in practise subsribed enough
money to pay Sir F.Piggott's smaller and more pressing
To the Right Honourable,
Lewis V.Harcourt M.P.
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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