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Government offices, Hongkong, 9th October, 1855.

I have the honour to report that availing myself of the permission given in the concluding paragraph of your despatch No. 96 of 12th August, I have appointed Mr. E. R. Eatwell to the Offices of Registrar General's and Protector of Chinese and General Interpreter to Government in the Colony.

The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.

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Page 1413

Gov 3268.155

061

9846 7089/06

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GR...

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Government offices, Hongkong, 9th October, 1855. I have the honour to report that availing myself of the permission given in the concluding paragraph of your despatch No. 96 of 12th August, I have appointed Mr. E. R. Eatwell to the Offices of Registrar General's and Protector of Chinese and General Interpreter to Government in the Colony. The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P. ... Page 1413 Gov 3268.155 061 9846 7089/06 ... GR... It appears that the original text was severely affected by OCR errors. I have made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`hour` to `honour`, `Occcmber` to `October`, `Auquet` to `August`, `despatch N.` to `despatch No.`, `Govenment` to `Government`, `Metria` to likely be part of "Government offices", `Fong Kong` to `Hongkong`, `conson` is unclear but left as is due to lack of context, and `cry for conson 28 Felfy` is unintelligible and left as is). 2. Reordered and rejoined broken sentences. 3. Removed or corrected extra or missing spaces. 4. Added missing words or indicated them with `...` where necessary. 5. Preserved original page numbering lines where detected. However, some parts remain unclear or unintelligible due to the quality of the OCR output. Further manual review may be necessary to fully understand the original document's content.
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The Right Honoradie,

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