CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 600

DRAFT.

The Crown Agents

Mr.

Mr.

MINUTE.

Lucas

6 Feb

-880 Hougthing

-1584

Fairfield 67Mhz

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston,

Mr. Meade.

Sir R. Herbert.

Baron de Worms.

Lord Knutsford.

74

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[1602

2 draft

way

598

7 Feb/90

Gentlemen

You will obseve from the enclosed copies of despatches from the gobann I HongHong that an Ex Non Commissioned officer is arked for to take charge

musketry

g the

Auod 6235

wo.26.87eb.on

1589.

A further minute on 1584

in

Instruction

And the stores in connexion

with the police faces of the Colony, and that sergeant

has been recom. Johnson

mended as a suitable man

for the post by The Secretary to. The Army a Navy

hensioners ookiety

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2. I am to request you to be good enough to communicate with this officer litter directly or through the

abscertaining Society, and upon that he is medically fit for service in the tropics to appoint him on 3

years the colonial

probation, giving

at the option either of home

paying his passage at the end of that period or of retaining him on the footing of an ordinary goont

Suvant

3. The proposed salary you will see is at the ratte

8 $720 p.a. and he should be given a free

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