4.
submit for your brase's inform-
=
ation.
This letter
by this Excellency, objection to it
1
and the
was
approved only
the last
paragraph, because Sir George
was
the
that
not disposed to report
absence of Colonel Caine, - absence being merely relaxation from outy for
lix
Weeks
in
the
gear,
MA
laid
down
in
the Colonial
Regulations.
5.-
On the 29th of the
zis =
same mouth (betober), Sir George Bonham beff =expectedly for the Northern Ports, and I charge of the office of Colonial Seautory under
was
left in
The Honorable
The Lieutenant- lovernor, Major - General Jorois, K. tt., who had
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then, for the first time, since
here in April, 1851,
his
arrival
entered upon the duties of his
Office- in the absence of the Governor.
6.
Mr. Mercer, the Colonial Treasurer, - (another officer of this Government
considers himself to have
who
a claim
مه
σχ
right to the
Office of Colonial Secretary, whenever that officer absents himself from the Colony),
was
at this time absent
I leave in England, and had
returned to Hongkong 15th November, 1851, as is shown by the enclosed
on
the
Romment the Notification issued by over of
the Lieutenant-lovernor, and
signed by
me
in my capacity
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