10 P Y.
Enclosure 1.
CO
22714
Police Office,
270
REGE 25 JUL 10.
Hongkong, 15th. March, 1910.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter of 15th.
January in which you ask for further information regarding the
death of your nephew the late Lance-Sergeant Arthur Counsell, and request me to make arrangements for the return to England of
the two children. In reply I have to inform you that L. S.
Counsell was admitted to hospital on the 3rd. January. At 1930
p.m. on the 5th. he suddenly developed violent delirium and
died a few hours afterwards in a fit. He left no instructions
about the children. I am administering his estate. I have sold
his ordinary effects and collected all monies due to him, and find that the total sum so realized is insufficient by $114
(about 10) to meet his liabilities. There are however some
articles of jewellery, which I estimate to be worth about $138
(about £12) which I have not yet sold. I enclose a detailed list
of these articles. It is just possible that the Freemasons Lay
pay up the deficit on the estate, in which case I shall be able to forward the jewellery &c., to you, but unless they, or you, pay the $114 necessary to clear the estate I shall be under
the obligation of selling them or enough of them to defray the
debit balance on the estate. I shall be glad to learn what your
wishes are in this respect, on the assumption that the Free-
-masons do not meanwhile pay the amount. If they do so I will
at once write and inform you and forward the articles enumer-
-ated. Now as regards the children. As you are aware, on the
lamented death of Mrs. Counsell their father placed them in the
Italian Convent, where they still are, having been maintained there since his death at the expense of the Naval and Military
Lodge of Freemasons, of which he was a member, and the Secrets
of which is Mr. J. J. Blake. I have arranged for them to go home to England in the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
Company's
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