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and he had during his spare time gained valuable experience in the usage of the Colony and of the habits of the Chinese.
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prot 7. Consequently, through written petition, he sought a salary increase beyond that in his original agreement, and I expressed my willingness to continue his services on the terms of his original appointment, which included that either party could give notice to terminate the arrangement. This condition had not been specified by Mr. Hydd in his application but was insisted upon by me in the interest of the public. Secondly, I expressed my disappointment with the terms then newly proposed by himself in reference to his arrival in England, the tone being on condition that he should claim his expenses while he was remaining in the Colony.
8. The above is the plain intendment of my letter of 11th March (70). It must be understood all through by Mr. Hydd and Mr. Kempely - nor can I easily suppose any other meaning being got out of it. I observe, however, that Mr. Panneste, the Attorney General, in his Opinion of the 18th July last, takes a view somewhat at variance with Art. Hydd's, and considers my grounds insufficient. Indeed, it appears that he is obviously mistaken in his interpretation of my meaning because I clearly declined the thing itself - by accepting the whole of Mr. Kizado's conditions in the first instance and further proposing an agreement, as proposed by himself now, in reference to the period of his arrival in England. There was nothing purely inconsistent in the two sets of conditions, and Mr. Panneste does not seem justified in departing from the plain sense of the words "as proposed by himself" from their context, and unnecessarily referring the latter clause of a sentence back to its commencement.
7. The language of my letter is plain enough, and I see no reason why I, as procurer of Art. Hydd, should not have continued to be mutually entitled, and the old agreement, as well as no new proposal was unduly exciting, especially to the Budd Colony Government entirely grown not to...