Reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency Sir E. B. Lytton, that my Lords will not object to the salary of the Governor of Hong Kong being fixed at £3000 per annum, as proposed, with the understanding that the Office of Lieutenant Governor is abolished.
They do not consider that they would be justified in acceding to the grant of a Pension to Lieutenant Colonel Caine without some further information as to his previous services, and they request...
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