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from Despatch marked "Separate and Confidential", dated 21st November 1846, from Governor Sir John Davis to Earl Grey.
"Both the claims and qualification
of Major Caine
are so
different from
those of Mr Shelley that I could not hesitate as to the selection. Major
Caine
is now
the oldest Civil Servant
of Stough-tony, having landed in 1841
and lived in a mat-shed, on this Island
first occupation of through the worst and most
Dangerous period. Mr Shelley
came out at the
same
time with myself