CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 73

Digitand the 8202h 10472 Hongkong

Registered

In any further correspondence on this subject, the above Number should be quoted.

for instructed 27 hodin.

Sir,

RECEIVED

NOVIS

1857

General Post Office,

17 November 1857.

72

As it appears by your letter of the 9th Instant that Mr. Chapman, the Postmaster of Hong Kong, has been in the Public Service in that Colony since September 1852, without having received leave of absence, and as M. Chapman states that he now requires a change of climate,

to for the benefit of his health, the Postmaster General desuris mo

you

to request that

will more the Secretary of State

for the Colonies to cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be informed that

J. Elliot Eagre

His

Colonial Office