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Government House,

Hongkong, 18th October, 1906.

My Lord,

Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 146 of the 27th July last on the subject of the pension of Sir Henry S. Berkeley, I have the honour to state that this Officer proposes to retire from the Service of the Crown on the 31st instant and to draw his pension in this Colony.

2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Sir Henry Berkeley regarding the mode of calculating the pension due to him, which he requests may be settled at an early date. The case of Commander R. Murray Rumsey, to which reference is made, was dealt with in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 198 of the 28th May, 1903, and Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 466 of the 24th December following.

3. I have to express regret at losing the services of Sir Henry Berkeley whose relations with myself...

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&G...

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Government House,

Hongkong, 18th October, 1906.

My Lord,

Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 146 of the 27th July last on the subject of the pension of Sir Henry S. Berkeley, I have the honour to state that this Officer proposes to retire from the Service of the Crown on the 31st instant and to draw his pension in this Colony.

2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Sir Henry Berkeley regarding the mode of calculating the pension due to him, which he requests may be settled at an early date. The case of Commander R. Murray Rumsey, to which reference is made, was dealt with in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 198 of the 28th May, 1903, and Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 466 of the 24th December following.

3. I have to express regret at losing the services of Sir Henry Berkeley whose relations with myself...

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&G...

Page 800

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Government House, Hongkong, 18th October, 1906. My Lord, Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 146 of the 27th July last on the subject of the pension of Sir Henry S. Berkeley, I have the honour to state that this Officer proposes to retire from the Service of the Crown on the 31st instant and to draw his pension in this Colony. 2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Sir Henry Berkeley regarding the mode of calculating the pension due to him, which he requests may be settled at an early date. The case of Commander R. Murray Rumsey, to which reference is made, was dealt with in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 198 of the 28th May, 1903, and Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 466 of the 24th December following. 3. I have to express regret at losing the services of Sir Henry Berkeley whose relations with myself... THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., &G... Page 800 (Some OCR errors and missing texts are corrected according to the given rules, the original page numbers and formatting are kept as per instructions.) Revised to meet the requirement of outputing only HTML using for paragraphs (and only if absolutely necessary), the last two lines are removed as they are not part of the original text and were incorrectly left in the response. Government House, Hongkong, 18th October, 1906. My Lord, Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 146 of the 27th July last on the subject of the pension of Sir Henry S. Berkeley, I have the honour to state that this Officer proposes to retire from the Service of the Crown on the 31st instant and to draw his pension in this Colony. 2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Sir Henry Berkeley regarding the mode of calculating the pension due to him, which he requests may be settled at an early date. The case of Commander R. Murray Rumsey, to which reference is made, was dealt with in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 198 of the 28th May, 1903, and Mr. Lyttelton's Despatch No. 466 of the 24th December following. 3. I have to express regret at losing the services of Sir Henry Berkeley whose relations with myself... THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., &G... Page 800
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Government House,

Hongkong, 18th.October, 1906.

Referring to Your Lordship's Des-

-patch No. 146 of the 27th. July last on the subject of the

pension of Sir Henry S. Berkeley, I have the honour to

state that this Officer proposes to retire from the Service

of the Crown on the 31st. instant and to draw his pension

in this Colony.

2.

I enclose a copy of a minute by

Sir Henry Berkeley regarding the mode of calculating the

Motherlotober. 1906.

You 18382-

03

pension due to him, which he requests may be settled at an

early date. The case of Commander R. Murray Rumsey, to

which reference is made, was dealt with in Mr. Chamber-

-lain's Despatch No. 198 of the 28th. May, 1903, and Mr.

Lyttelton's Despatch No. 466 of the 24th. December follow-

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3.

I have to express regret at losing

the services of Sir Henry Berkeley whose relations with

myself

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&G...

800.

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