current of busines
in the lealony, and qualifying him to undertake the responsibility of a higher office here after.
b. The small allowance of £250, which
is granted to the Aide de. bamp and Private
Secretary
н
combined, is for the present divided between him and leaptain Mayne,
the latter receiving
No Rupell
£150.
17.
and
£100 per annum, having the heavier work.
There probably is ne place in the bust
Tat this side of India
no
столе
frequently
visited than HongRong by Foreign Officers, and strangers of distinction. all
such
persons, in addition to resident
officers
and Civilians, are
regarded
entitled to partake of the hospitalities
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of Government House. Hence I know of few places where the Governor is better entitled to the afsistance of a regular
obliged
Aide. de. Camp, because here he is to devote so much personal labor and attention to the actual current business of
the administration of the Government that
he has really for less time for other # duties than the Governor of an Australian
or American Province, os point on which
my previous experience qualifies
me
As, however, I do not, at
express
an
opinion.
8.
present
see
my way to any better
مال
arrangement than that which I have temporarily made, I have the honer to solicit your Grace's approval