CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 605

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very respectfully to submic, case for Your Lordship's Consideration, and, in to doing, I venture to hope that having had the honor of serving Her Majesty, the Military and Civil Services without any replattion

my character or

or probity early twelve years, seven and a half which have been spent in NoryHous and Japan, I shall be excused for this Trespassing on your

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Valuable hire and

On The 11!!! Novencher 1862. I was

appointed Apistaue Postmaster General of "Hong Kong by the late Duke of Newcastle, at a salary of £500 per annum, and continually continued to serve in that capacity until The 10t

transferred

July 1867 when I was

ound application to the Office of my Pastinaste of Yokohama at the same salary but with the addition of free Quarters.

For a period of nearly three months in the Spring of 1867 I had charge of the General Post- Posto fine Office, Hongkong in the temporary he Rt. Now : - The barl of Kimberley

H. M. Principal Secretary of State

For the Colonies

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