CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3] — Page 346

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

should be reserved lith a

till a ficture

ficture date for

some good object connected with the Hospital

from which it can be seen that it is not Petitioner alone who holds out (against

delivering

the

money

overs

to the Couton

authorities). Petitioner, having

respectfully detailed the facts of the can,

humbly pray

how

your

Honour will

that Your consideration by allowing

Sctitioner to resign the post of Chairman of the Hospital Committee, which act of

will be beneficial to Petitioner, who

Your

grace

Awaits

Honour's instructions with

great anxiety.

Menal ende

ending.

Meeting of

Sub-Enclosure 3.

the old and

new

342

Directors of the

i

Hospital held on the 1. of the 10th moon (7th November 1885).

On account

of the suundation

in Kwang Sing Province this year, this Hospital. -issued subscription books to all quarters for subscription and sent tele

telegrams

to

various ports to raise relief funds. The subscriptions from this Colony and other pork amounted, a

and, after deducting

very large o

the anconut.

A...

expended in the work of relief, left

than $30,000. It is now

balance

of in

riconc

resolved that this balance shall be

placed in a bank at interest and.

retained

for

the peerproves of retief

in

the future. This fund was raised by subscriptions from both Chinese and

foreigners,

and moreover the sole

"object of the telegrams sent to foreign

was to raise money for the work

so that if the balance was

port

of relief,

weed

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