BYE hoping that you be good enough addresses the petition for her.
Tf any errors in meaning and grammer please correct them both and oblige.
Tam, Your obedient servant, No Lov-sin, A Cantonese old woman. 28th July.
We regret our inability to make ti amorous corrections that sould our Correspondent roques! think that the effect of the uld be entirely aboiled if it were tampered with in any way, and we therefore publish it as it stands, he ig that we consult our Correspondent's own interest, and that of her sou, in 40 doing.—E, The mother of the accused detective of the Local Municiple department of Shanghai, named Ng Leung-tah, requested the Editor of the North-Olina Heruld addresses the following petition for her.
Hoxonasce Si,—Your humble pet sou hins served as a detective of the department for several months, time, he dared not to spare auy_pain-in.th duties and there were many have been found through his information, so that therefore he got into enemy with the bad tribes, as the gamblers, at length, he was falsely complaint and put into impri ith sitting fire to a gambling terior of Hongkew at 2 o'clock time itting in E-yuen of the Sth day of July, but in the mean
of his friend, who appeared as a wit trial, tated that he was in p past 12 imid-day while the other witness gave vidence of exactly one o'clock, although statements were seemed a little ship should know that did not keep a proper watch or clock and also some of them did not know the figures of it at all, Now your petitioner is an old woman of more than 60 years of ago and has kept family of four po all of. them ware depended upon the accused.
Hoping that your graceful gentlemen would take compassion. upon them as to release the said accused Riy Leung-tak then your kindness will ever pray.
Tam, Your humble petitioner, Ne Lov-suf.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.