CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899 — Page 396

C

KENT VILLA!

7423

CLAREMONT ROAD..

SURBITON

24th March 1899

390

Liv

with

referance

to

application I made to It's Excellency The Governor of Hong Kong, before leaving that Colony, for permission to retire at the expiration of my present leave

The Ambassador

absence,

The Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies

However, to follow the exact output format requested and to apply the rules for OCR proofreading:

C

KENT VILLA!

7423

CLAREMONT ROAD..

SURBITON

24th March 1899

390

Liv
with
reference
to
application I made to It's Excellency The Governor of Hong Kong, before leaving that Colony, for permission to retire at the expiration of my present leave

The Ambassador
absence,
The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies

Let's correct and reformat according to the given instructions and compact knowledge, focusing on the primary task of correcting spelling errors and applying the rules: The original text has several issues that need correction. ## Step-by-step analysis of the problem: 1. **Correct spelling errors**: "referance" should be "reference", "It's" should be "His", "jovenes" is likely "Governor", "Itong" is likely "Hong", "rcpiration" should be "expiration", "Ambl" is likely "Ambassador". 2. **Fix spacing issues**: Remove extra spaces and correct hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 3. **Rejoin broken sentences**: The text is broken into many short lines; sentences should be rejoined where appropriate. 4. **Format in Markdown is not required for the output; instead, HTML is requested**: The output should use HTML tags like `

` for paragraphs. ## Fixed solution:

C

KENT VILLA!

7423

CLAREMONT ROAD..

SURBITON

24th March 1899

390

Liv with reference to application I made to His Excellency The Governor of Hong Kong, before leaving that Colony, for permission to retire at the expiration of my present leave

The Ambassador absence,

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies

## Explanation of changes: * Corrected "referance" to "reference". * Corrected "It's" to "His". * Corrected "jovenes" to "Governor". * Corrected "Itong" to "Hong". * Corrected "rcpiration" to "expiration". * Corrected "Ambl" to "Ambassador". * Rejoined broken sentences. * Removed unnecessary line breaks. ## Output: Since the output format is specified as HTML using `

` for paragraphs, the fixed solution is already in the correct format.