6.
7.
of the question, so that I had to put : up with the loss. With some difficulty -after several months of endeavour I obtained a situation as book-keeper ut £100 p.
annum, since raised to
£ 125, and on this small income I
have to maintain.
children.
a w
wife and four
I have thus, us
briefly
ad
possible
detailed my past and present position;
my
cureer
-during the past three ..
has been
years
one
of
no o
ordinary
vicissitude and misfortune, and it
must be obvious that the wieumstances
above narrated have rendered it
impossible for
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me to satisfy the claim
- made. If at
any future time
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my position should improve so as to place it in my power- of which
little unfortunately
there seems
prospect at present - I need scarcely
I shall be most ready und
say
willing
to do so; more than this
I cannot say,
than useless for
engagements
as it would be worse
me to enter into
or make promises
which in all probability I should be unable to fulfil
I um, &c.
(Signed) A. Wetherhead.
(True Copy)
MAAlexander
Meting
Colonial Secretary