Exhibit A
Magistrate
Davies lap, Chief
Honorable H. Inder
Letter from the
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Assistant magistrate
Wyt Mitchell Lay
Minute-
$689/532
The mail is on the point of starting, the Schedule of despatches is closed, and I have no time to state fully my strong objections to the appointment now proposed in place of Mr Davies.
I can only call attention to Sir John Bowring's Despatch 175 of 30th Ultimo, which goes to the root of this opportunity, and in which the nomination of a Barrister to the Chief Magistracy is recommended.
I shall, if permitted, and with all respect, write...