CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861 — Page 352

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

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exceeds £500.

to recuie

Mr Quin it is true in

£ 700 a year & quarters, but if the

accounts of the cost of living at Hiking

to to whied

are

morcour

are

2 700 there is not more than

equal to £500 in most other colonies. There pecution circes connected with martavala lepenently

the present

care

Exsanan MM. Quin is to le minted on acement of his premios services in China

and of

a racant

of his feculiar fitness for office to leave his present Employment in the Western part of the Globe and

in the Eastern part,

Gloth and asserve

pert

by

Grade

a

his canly way

of getting to the latter is na Great Britain, he is tha

چ

compelled to take to

expensive voyages. If, then, added the cost of the

The Treasury proposals mode

Sir For Rogers,

except

Sir H. Robinson,

accede to all the

to that of the payment

to H Kony,

which

M. Quins papages from Antigua

is refused

that salary off

office

that

to which

the

my

ns

remont of

77

%

Mis family

affounted

lopher A.Kang.

Menite continued.

a

344

rife &

( for I gather from Six H. Robinson's desp: that Mr. Quin has family) from Antique litt thing, and to the loss entailed

2

him

in breaking of his home in one

colony and

re-cotellicking it in

another, he is to pay 2/3 of his

Fron

passages, it will be some years before he can reap any

advantage from his promotion : and unless he is Possession of

he is in

a considerable sum of ready

he will

money, which is hardly portable looking to his pirminis career, sht be much hampered for

some time after his arrival

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