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Terule

The

despatch will proceed this day

4

mum

M.h

3237

1/330 011327

1/32/

Crig

11759

for instructed 20th March to

draft with Gov. 11327

2475.-

HongKong

139

RECEIVED

MAR 19 1856

Treasury Chambers.

18th March 1856-

Having laid before the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

the despatches from Sir John Bowring, forwarded with your letter of the 5th instant, reporting the death of Mr. Caulfield lately Chief Clerk in the Colonial Treasury, I am commanded to acquaint you for the information of "Mr. Secretary Labouchere that their Lordships will not object to the payment of the expense of this

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