CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 99

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AREGA 21 NOV 81

98

N:39-

The

My Lord,

Government

House,

Hong Kong, 18th October, 1880

I regret to inform

Your Lordship that yesterday

this Colony

was visited by a

Typhoon of considerable violence

which has caused

The Night Honourable

great destruction

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

...

It appears that the original text is heavily damaged or contains non-relevant content at the end ("Le ن کریم"). The proofread text maintains the original content where possible, correcting obvious errors such as "My Load" to "My Lord", "Gvernment" to "Government", "Zavers" to a likely "Government House", "Oataker" to "October", "Calany" to "Colony", "visit" to "visited", "Styphoon" to "Typhoon", and "violenes" to "violence". "Carb of timberly" seems to be a significant OCR error but without clear context; it is left as is due to uncertainty. "Her Majesty's Principalocretary" is corrected to "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary". The last part "Le ن کریم" is not coherent with the rest of the text and appears to be either a severe OCR error or unrelated content, so it is represented as "..." to indicate missing or unintelligible content.