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free
pressive. A poor.
600
a
with.
a
year
of
house in the service
the Chinese Government»
Amongst
the
Offers of
1)
(
the
Foreign Department
doubtless these desertions are
more rare, not because the
salaries are
high but because
the better regulations for
advancement and retirement
offer in such service greater attractions. In these advantages
my present position affords
me
no
participation, but I
have a hope that the enlarged
sphere of my
duties
may render
it advisable to confer upon
me
some direct...
Having
Foreign Office appointments
now entered at
some
length
into the
reasons
which make it both
just
and
desirable that the salary attached
to my Office should be considerably augmented, it remains for me to say
only
that leaving my
Colonial
pay
as it was originally arranged.
a
Consular salary
of £400 a year
with
an allowance
for a
house would seem but
a fair remuneration
for the
duties and
responsibilities
that I am called upon to
undertake for
that Service and