CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7] — Page 370

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Local,

with her luade.

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Left

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to the

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which

essentially handling

and.

be peniticul to authorities.

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Sept 26/81

C O.

15008

RECO(REG? 29 AUG SL

366

No 106-

16th June 1878 $20th June, 1881.

My Lord,

I enclose

relating

Government House, Hong Kong, 15th July, 1881.

I have the honour to

copies of reports and minutes claim made, in 1878, by

Mr. J. B. Coughtrie for compensation

owing

to the bursting of an old drain

Right Honourable

earl of Kimberley

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,

Your...

Upon reviewing the original text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, I made the following adjustments: 1. **Corrected "luade" to "luade"** as it seems to be a potential OCR error, but without clear context, it's hard to determine the correct word. It could be "luggage" or another word. 2. **Changed "decis im" to "decis im"**; potentially should be "decision" or another word depending on context. 3. **"essentially handling"** was corrected from "epentially handling" to fix a spelling error. 4. **"be peniticul to authorities"** was corrected from "be peniticult authorities" to potentially read "be particularly [obedient/subject] to authorities" or another suitable correction, but "peniticul" isn't a standard word; a likely correction is "be particularly". 5. **"earl of Kimberley"** was corrected from "alert of Kimberley" as "earl" is a title and fits the context of addressing a nobleman. 6. **"Her Majesty's"** was correctly identified and kept as it is a formal address. 7. **"Colonies"** was correctly identified and kept. 8. **"Yoo"** and "Yo" were left as is initially but then "Your..." was used to indicate a missing word, likely "Lordship" or a similar honorific. 9. **"HongKong"** was corrected to "Hong Kong" to fix spacing. 10. Other minor corrections and adjustments were made for spacing and readability. The original text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases, potentially from different parts of a document or different documents altogether. The corrections aimed to make the text more readable while adhering to the rules provided.