5 May. Dr. Harves
I wish to have a statement of the recent office on the part of my predecessor to the Government & affairs. The instructions to the persons. Stral vacant contact. There is now there 44
The Official arrangements "Paris is dead. Blackwood is at Hong Kong.
Major Caine, originally Chief Magistrate, holds the combined Offices of Colonial Secretary, and Auditor General at a Salary of £1800 per Annum and vice Major Bruce Shelley who received collectively £2000 per annum.
The Registration Ordinance is much complicated. The situation of Chief Magistrate, vacated by Major Caine, has been conferred by Lord Grey upon Mercer whose appointment the Governor Davis very warmly supported for the current arrangement.
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