CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10] — Page 177

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convenients

leave this county port though ong

as it

will be necessary

bustunt the Sants

essential to procure

zon parages in Some Sailing Vessel

which, at the time

deforrtune maghe

I zom

intended

dy

about to sail for

the

Colone

Sam to add

that the payment of the

pansion £31. 1.0 which

£31.

was assigned to you for comic

Bermuda will cease

on the day you Embark for Kong.

N146.

Miscellaneous.

RECEIVED:

1 OCT

1863

My Lord Duke,

I had the honor to

Despatch No. 81 of 9th

April last, to report that the Reverend

Fr. Legge had made

a yearly examination of Service Cadets.

W. Wade, Secretary and

Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation in this Country, passing

through Hong Kong.

The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,

&c. &c.

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N146. Miscellaneous. RECEIVED: 1 OCT 1863

My Lord Duke,

I had the honor to Despatch No. 81 of 9th April last, to report that the Reverend Fr. Legge had made a yearly examination of Service Cadets. W. Wade, Secretary and Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation in this Country, passing through Hong Kong.

The Duke of Newcastle, K.G., &c. &c.

Page 176 Houghing, 25 August 1868.