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local Knowledge and experience. If

Commander Jones

I should, with the

concurrence (I

full

here,

'I concurrence

of the Executive Council, give

the

him.

provisional appointment subject to Your Lordship's confirmation; but

he recently returned to England the expiration of his last term of service. Probably Your Lordship's ... choice could not fall

on an

Officer

better qualified for this post. His address in England could be

ascertained at the Admiralty.

3.

The new Assistant Harbour

Master should be sent out

as soon as

possible. I annex the

usual paper of particulars of this

appointment.

I would request that I

may be informed by telegraph

when the new Assistant Harbour

Master

may

at Hongkong.

be expected to arrive

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant.

W. M. Bowen