CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 499

Supported

his application

for that indulgence.

San

бля

10 July

Anced

18 July/675

6613. Hong Kong Patronage

REGIST

JULY. IT

1867

My Lord Duke

66. Brook Street W

19th June 1867

તમારો પ

Having by the last Mail ::

letter from Hongkong

Received a

informing

me that Mr Mercer

the Colonial Secretary

by

the

following

was to leave

Mail and that it

was not probable owing

This

to the state

of his health that he would return to the Coloniff,

Sventure to ask.

Your frace to confer

me the

#

4888/15 appointment of Colonial Secretary

of stongtions should it thus become)

vacant.

In support of my application

I beg to trouble

your face with a brief statement of any services.

I entered the Civil Lewice of

Hongkong

on

the 1st November 1845

as Clerk of Court - in 1850 I was.

His Grace.

promoted

the Duke of Buckingham & Chand 07.

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