CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 208

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my

if I propose returning when your Exallency may think fit to suggest, or He is Grace The Secretary of State may decide to be...

absence now and at once,

Necessary.

Were I to omit the present. opportunity (for such I consider it) I might

break down in health at the

very

time.

desired to avail -

when your yourself of a

Excellency

journey

home or elsewhere;

and to leave as

recently.

the administration

in this.

of this Government to myself.

I have passed three

my

three full Summer.

third period of residence in -- Hongkong, and have never really recovered from

us

an attack of fever in October last, may be gathered from the Enclosed certificate

by the Colonial Surgeon

If I thought that this application would Embarass your Excellency, or that

any postponement of it would be for the- greater good of the Public Service, I had not made it now, but it seems on all grounds the most convenient that presents itself, and I feel sure that The Secretary- of State will not consider it a favor too-

Extravagant to be asked by, and granted to,

し

a Public Officer of my long service and

... Standing in Hongkong..

I have the honor to be,

Your Excellency's

Most Obedient humble Servant

Colonial Secretary.