The
may
to a great extent. It is said of the Consular Departments under the Foreign Office -
There is
yet another difference
between the Colonial Service and both
these classes: the
one of which is sustained by the knowledge that his residence in the Country
is attended with profit, while the other is consoled by the constant chance
of promotion, which
has been largely distributed -
Climate
But from the exhausting
of Hongkong there
is no escape for
the Colonial Officer, save by removal to England on medical certificate, and honourable retirement.
An
instance of this removal has availed,
What this
Amount
to 97
as well
Casualties is in the
the Hongkong Service, may
from the short appendix to
gathered
my
January last, which formed
7. 18th January
Enclosure in despatch to Colonial
Office No: 14 of
25th January,
Characterized by Sir John Bowring
as "reasonings containing little
and was
"facts most
"justly entitled to attention
I have also mentioned above
to perform;
the work I have been called
and more
under this head I shall only say that
I calculate it at three times what fell to
my predecessors, and Executed at two thirds of their Salary -
It would therefore act on the foregoing facts does not
Justify
nor Justify
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Leaving
a removal to
one not within
my bieller chuite, and
the means, and I would also point out that any appointment, to which you, may give the opportunity and the will to prefer me, should be of sufficient importance to negative the imputation or suspicion that
it is
Should the
be effected by the transfer.
prevent even
discredit
intended
arrangement
or inconvenient, that I have prayed
I propose be impracticable I have only to remark
up all
my
dues to the Superannuation
in the alternative,
Fund, and shall be glad,
to retire from the Public Service, if Pension be awarded me,
that the
(with
my
Civil Service
suitable to my
regulated by the Consideration
utterly unable to lay by any portion of
annual salaries, or make any provision
for the future-
In submitting this representation
I hope to be understood as
no Complaint.
I undertook to serve
in Hongkong
and I have served here
and I shall continue to serve here, if my present applications be
granted;
but if refused,
now that the change is commencing
to have gradual but certain effect. I am surely justified in
asking,
I do now ask in recapitulation,
for employment elsewhere, or retirement
on sufficient grounds.