CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 669

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

May 22nd, 1900.

Sir:-

I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to

transmit to you the accompanying copy of a despatch

which the Secretary of State for the Colonies has

received from the Governor of Hong Kong on the sub-

ject of expenses incurred on behalf of Edward Wallace

a lunatic, sent to the Colony from Shanghae under an order made by the Chief Justice of Her Majesty's

The Hong Kong Supreme Court for China and Corea. Government request that all such expenses should be defrayed from the funds administered by this depart-

ment.

A similar claim was put forward by the Colonial

authorities on the previous occasion when Edward

Wallace was, under apparently identical circumstances,

1. Warren, Esq.,

&C.,

&C.,

&C.,

Shanghae..

transferred