CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 607

Office

co and

altogether different from

The meaning I intended to

convey

When

I used the expression "Jigantic "process of "Swindling += " " " to which the Postal

Authorities in London Took such

strong

exception, I meant to state that, in my

opinion, This loss

was due to

one

those

cases of robbery which your

recurring cases Lordship is aware

are

perpetrated by

men altogether outside of and uncow = =nected with the Post-Office itself. It is a matter of very great regret

тригу that I so badly expressed myself, and that I rendered it possible for my Superiors to put as painful

Construction on

so

my

I now crave

логово

permission to

represent to Your Lordship, in the most respectful terms, the effect

upon me

the decision

The

F "Hong Kong Government, desiring at the same time to throw myself upon Your clemency.

of

In

consequence

the Governor's Order, I am reduced

t

V

leave

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"Honghong, and it is with difficulty. I am able to spend my

F absence in England upon my reduced half salary viz : - £125 per Anuum. I may

here add that I am

fifty-two years of age, and that_ I have been married upwards of

eighteen years.

My

Can I now venture to hope, Lord, that this

may

ingent appeal not be deemed unworthy of the attention of Her Majesty's Government? I necessarily feel very acutely the lop of

raux and position, though, perhaps, this is but little compared

with the straitened circumstances to which I am reduced, and I

huse that

eamestly

may

not

Your Lordship

consider me arking

too much

when I pray to be re-instated in my former Office at Yokohama

.

"I have but two and more years to serve before being

entitled to ask for a

a half

又

to a post for inferior to the one I held

корон

the

appointment of the Duke

Newcastle, when I first arrived in Hong Kong just eight-years ago.

attached to this new post

The

Salary

" is wholly inadequate to support me in

so expensive a

place

Hong Kong,

would be

a

very

for a pension, and to seriores loss to me were

it to be calculated upon the amount

of my reduced Salary. Should Your Lordship feet altogether dis =

inclined to reinstate me

at

Yokohama, may I hope that you. would not be unwilling

to pestore