CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3] — Page 75

Telegram

Governor

Hongkong

MINUTE

for Amery

4646

74

June 11 March:87

daryles

Mr. Johnston 10 Mar. Referring to your desp. no

Mr. Pears

Mr. Wingfield

Mr. Bramston

Mr. Meade

Sir R. Herbert

Lord Dunraven

Sir H. T. Holland

5026

flashly

24 feet granted

applishness propose to of flint

whuitter for curren

lut 6. p. M. 11 March

-

recorded-

and

Hess

as friable, deaconship

see my despatch of

highflier

11 January

plank

do you still require,

180

filings

leave,

an

Upon reviewing the original text and the output, several corrections and adjustments can be made according to the given rules: 1. **Correcting spelling errors**: - "Swvernor" to "Governor" - "Hongthing" to "Hongkong" (though "Hong Kong" is more standard, "Hongkong" is kept as it is likely the original spelling) - "Akery" to "Amery" - "Juny" to "June" - "Johunn" to "Johnston" - "desp." is likely short for "despatch," which is an older spelling of "dispatch" - "flashly" could be a misrecognition; without context, it's hard to correct - "feetgranted" to "feet granted" - "apoishness" is unclear; possible correction could be "applishness" to something like "application" - "propise" to "propose" - "whuitter" is unclear; possible correction could be to "weather" or another word depending on context - "curren" to "current" - "lut" is unclear; without context, it's hard to correct - "frible" to "friable" - "deaconshif" to "deaconship" - "highflier" could be correct or context-dependent - "do qm" to "do you" 2. **Fixing spacing issues and rejoining broken sentences**: - Many words and phrases are separated or incorrectly joined; corrections have been made where the intended word or phrase is clear. 3. **Restoring paragraph breaks and indicating missing words**: - Paragraph breaks have been maintained as per the original. 4. **Markdown formatting is not used in the output as per the final instruction; instead, HTML is used**. The output is already in HTML format using `

` tags as instructed. However, upon closer inspection, some of the corrections and adjustments can be directly applied to the HTML output for clarity and readability. Here's an adjusted version with some of the corrections applied:

Telegram

Governor

Hongkong

MINUTE

for Amery

4646

74

June 11 March:87

daryles

Mr. Johnston 10 Mar. Referring to your desp. no

Mr. Pears

Mr. Wingfield

Mr. Bramston

Mr. Meade

Sir R. Herbert

Lord Dunraven

Sir H. T. Holland

5026

flashly

24 feet granted

applishness propose to of flint

whuitter for current

lut 6. p. M. 11 March

-

recorded-

and

Hess

as friable, deaconship

see my despatch of

highflier

11 January

plank

do you still require,

180

filings

leave,

an

This version reflects some of the corrections and adjustments that can be made. However, some words remain unclear due to the context or the quality of the original OCR output.