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Letter from Kingsmill

Acting Attorney. My Dear Sir, neral at St. King

W. Hicken,

4.10930/59

Hong Kong. Tebry 12: 1857.

you

have laboured since.

your

439

anival

With

very great regut have I cemarked the many difficulties under which, in this Colony; Luceed it appear to me that from the very- outset you

have

suffered from being unable bottain, intimne, sufficient or reliable information as to the duties of your appoint :

you

: ment a the circumstances of the Colony to which,

on were

then,

about to come; In the pist place. The Salary attacked be your post

was barely sufficient for your decent support, from

of two years spent in this Colony

au Experience

les a

Pufessional man

man Ifeel

exceed

any

myself competent to form an opinion on this mattic, and Lean say that the expenses of living in Stongkong for that thad formed when the subject altho' befue leaving home! I was warned that Ishould not find it a cheap place; The fact is, the place is deases Even than Calcutta and, as to England, I say that an outlay of. £120 per ann: in London gave me more Comful substance and enjoyment than £350 could here : To meet these expenses there was held out byen the hope of private practice ; that; which is, at beat, but matter of specslation was, in your case, quiles out of the question as the multiplicity of dulie's theour in your shoulders were so far from allowing you

time to tum

you

attention to private practice that they really did not affid you lime for the ordinary and necessary relax: : ations of life : Indeed having hied for some time to persoun all the duties in your own person, you found it absolutely impossitte (and so would any one) to proceed without assistance, the ast gwhich you

had to defray out of your very limilled income,

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