CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 278

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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that the bolonial Government caused

considerable

a

monetary

loss by

cancelling my leave, when I had

obtained

an

"Indulgence passags

the troopship which left that

bolony last November-

яву

leave

was stopped in respect to the case

Rex. V. Bird, in which

Engineer

English

had been committed to

stand his trial for elbauslaughter,

my

evidence being considered of such importance to the Government- by the brown Solicitor, yet only four days after the Groopship

sailed, the Government decided not to proceed with the case.

And

on my petitioning through the How. D.P. W to be allowed a free passage,

(which

(2)

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