of 13th December 1884 from Sir St. Robinson to the Right Honorable R. Cardwell Secretary of State for the Colonies, covering Mr Merceis application for the Government of Stone Kong...
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as to Mr. Mercers
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My opinion "strong claims to and fitness for "promotion is already officially "record in your departments. In "addition to the despatches quotid "by Mr. Mercer, if I remember "rightly, I addrived the Duke of
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* I have not seen this letter, but as additional testimony think right to call attention to it in this note.
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returning a Confidential "Suport upon the Public Officers
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of Stougkong which had been "transmitted for my perural" ".
"It only remains for "therefore in recommending "present application to your "favourable considnation, to observe "that Mr Mercers elevation to the
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" highest post in the Colony would in my opinion be a very "encouraging and appropriate "recognition of his long, fortiful "and efficient Services in this trying "climate, and that due provision "has been made for such a fitting "termination to a lengthened