CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863 — Page 323

Assistant Parkel Ugent

with a salary of £250

In annum.

b

Conary

and Shave

to you may approval of this

appointment

I Gawarded a copy

% zou despatch together

with

with In Mitchells report- for the consideration

of the Pastardles Genent

In

this country

$72.9

R

18 ap

RECEIVED

10 APR

1863

ôn trọng trong

Measury Chambers.

10th April 1865.

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319

With reference to your letter of the 30th ult., enclosing copy of a letter from Lieut. Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, proposing the further grant of a sum at Hong Kong, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that their Lordships concur with his Grace in opinion that the zeal and ability which Lieutenant Robinson has brought to the consideration of the lunacy question give considerable

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