CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 257

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Του

of Com

is as

follows.

The Letters & were

duly

this

taken delivery of by him from

office, they

were put into a

was then put on board one

bag

addresse & Marseilles, and the Bag

of Herr Majesty's Sun Boats about to leave for the fanton River, the officer in Command of the Gun Boat finding a Mail Bag addressed to karseilles on board his Boat. considered the

the Bay had been left on board in

be sent it

Mistake, and

unmediately

on brand the Brail Steamer for

Europe, then on the rove of departure, addressed to marseilles

the bag being

was taken charge of on

and

duly

Recording

A

board

delivered to its address.

His Excellency the Governor

pleased to

was express was

Яхрян

himself perfectly satisfied that this

office

was

in

no way whatever to blome

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for the improper disposal of the letters referred to, the errorbeings

attributable to the French solely

agent.

In conclusion I have the honour

to remark, that for me it has been

a most fortunate urcumstance, that the same Agent should bei

stite acting, as without this man's Evidence, the whole odium of so

serions a

Bistake would have

been fastened upon one in

the Director General consequence of

of the French Cut office Lavring

stated that the letters referred.

to were returned in the Frail.

Конд

from Hong Kong

д

I have on

M. Shapman

(signed) B

P.M.

far

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