CO129-096 - Others - 1863 — Page 39

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No 1940 and 1,281 and that as for

ого

I have been allowed to do so at

Hongkong

it has been

my

earnest wish.

to protect my official conduct from

I conscientiously feel I have

aspersions

not merited...

I have no desire therefore that the Secretary of State for the Colonies

should be troubled with the matter

your

I

notice

mis-

have merely brought under to protect myself from any -apprehension." might otherwise be subjected to if I were to remain silent..

I have the hinor to be Dir

Your Most-Obedient Servant.

Fret Forthe Colonial Treasurer.

Sought to state that it is only since July last that a recent

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Ordinance has ingrafted

ingrafted upon my Department that hitherto Known

the Office of Police and Lighting hates and then supervised- by Mra___ Grandpre a Gentleman of Portuguese

origin and, whose Subordinates-

Mop & J Hyndman

duran, and de

now attached to the Treasury - also Portuguese

and. so

acquainted with our

H

C

Souza

are,

imperfectly

that

Language thr I have, invariably to address M ?

de Souza through

through an Interpreter

and often I am obliged to have

recourse to Mr de Carvalho the

in his own

Cashier to explain to M. Hyndman

tongue the precise. nature of my instructions : That - I encounter difficulties which Mr Grandpre could not experience as I have done since July last upon the introduction

by

Ordinance.

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