THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JULY, 1881.
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2. As on a former occasion, provision has been made for the due execution of the office of the Chief Justice by the appointment of Mr. Justice SNOWDEN. On the advice of the Executive Council, I have informed Sir JOHN SMALE that if it be necessary within the first two months of the vacation leave for me to appoint an Acting Puisne Judge, it is my intention to do so; and as to the second two months, it is understood that half salary of the Chief Justice will be available for the remuneration of Mr. SNOWDEN, leaving Mr. SNOWDEN's half salary available for an Acting Puisne Judge.
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3. In reporting the Chief Justice's retirement, I beg leave to convey to Your Lordship my sense of the very valuable services the Government have received for twenty years from Sir JOHN SMALE.
4. During the four years that I have had charge of this Government, I have found it
necessary make some changes in the penal legislation of Hongkong, in the treatment of criminals and the minor administration of the law, and to issue a Commission of Enquiry into certain offices of the Supreme Court, but I have found Sir JOHN SMALE in all these matters, as well as on every other subject in which either as a Judge or a member of the Legislative Council he has had dealings with the Government, work in entire harmony with me.
5. I have also very great satisfaction in laying before Your Lordship the unanimous expression. of the members of the Bar, and the cordial testimony borne by the Community, to Sir JOHN SMALE'S high reputation for integrity, unflagging zeal, and ability, and for his admirable conduct of the Judi- cial work of this Colony for so many years.
I have, &c.,
J. POPE HENNESSY.
The Right Honourable THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Hongkong. No. 62.
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY TO GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
DOWNING STREET,
3rd June, 1881.
SIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 32 of the 9th of April,. reporting that you had granted four months' vacation leave and two months' leave on half salary to the Chief Justice, Sir JOHN SMALE, who was proceeding to England with a view of retiring from the Public Service, and enclosing reports of the addresses presented to Sir JOHN SMALE by the Colonial Bar and the Community of Hongkong on his departure.
In acknowledging the receipt of your despatch, and in conveying to you my approval of the leave of absence which you have granted to Sir JOHN SMALE (which will exhaust the full amount of leave to which he is entitled, including the six beneficial months), I have to express to you the satisfaction with which I have received the testimony borne by yourself and the members of the Colonial Bar to the manner in which "Sir JOHN SMALE has discharged the duties of the high office from which he is now retiring.
Governor SiR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.,
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.
HONGKONG.
HONOURS.
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Hon. W. H. MARSH.
DOWNING STREET,
23rd May, 1881.
SIR,-I have the honour to inform you, with reference to my telegram of the 21st instant, that the Queen has, on my recommendation, been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Mr. WILLIAM HENRY MARSH to be a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.