CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 710

quite inadmissible.

let the

d

appears to me

Refuse politely copy of the correspondence

C.P.L

sigaly

• governor have

abnu

Sir,

2. Jonedale Villas.

St. Mark's

Cheltenham C. O.

3rd July 189411679

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Prof 5 JUL 94:

I have the honour to address

the

matter of "Personal Allowance?

for the knowleage of Chinese".

when in stong king, thad occasion

to write to the Colonial Treasures about my leave

I returned my salary,

amm:

pay,

card

Dro

$3000 per

latter being

am!

the

plus #180 per

for knowledge.

an allomanik

ob herese"? I said that the amounts were returned separately

as

Iwas

the

impression that the Personal Allowance

AVEVO

paid in full at all times. I got a

pri

vate note from M. Mitchell. Innes in which

he said, "I think

allowance for

while

of

my

you

ari Cre

jur are

you

right

and that up chinese will be paid in full

leave" Yowards the end

march I called at the Treasury to see if Leave Certificate had been made up on that basis; but M. Mitchell-Immes was out, and he wrote me another note saying, "There

desparch to the

to the effect

personal lowances are halved when half. pay begins."

is a

that

cat al

13 Mallo

L

The Right If onourable

This information

came too late for to open up

the question

ii Hong Kong, and as

The Under Secretary of State

for the colonies.