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there
at Strathong. He informed
qualifications me they were comply Rose here, of whore character &
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opinion could
of a good ordinary accountant, and that any young man with some experience would not be without a chance from Capt & O'Brien one of
Firme a Bank will acquainted with figures & bookkeeping suitable for the purpose. He added that the accounts of the Government are best in Sterling money but that there would be local transactions in Chinese currency with
which any
thank youth could quickly become conversant. I then endeavoured to find a suitable
person among
the candidates for Colonial employment but failed to do so owing to the small amount of salary attached to the office, there being passage money and outfit. I then thought that the best thing I could do was to obtain the services of some young man who had already been in the public service
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be
to allowances for
the Directors of Government. The letters addressed to me by the Secretary, together with one forwarded by him from E.W. Richford, will show the grounds I had for
thinking Mr. Selby to be fully qualified to perform the
your first mentioning to me the quality, the day after the receipt of Sir P. Bowring's despatch, I was
able to lay my
on the Papers which I have
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hand
and which I now send to you, and I therefore desired my private secretary to request the head of the Department under which W. Selby had served, to state his opinion of him. I enclose you
I think there Domint fully acquit
if the imputation conveyed in Sir S. Bowring's dispatch