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at the time he applied for employment in the City Police, showing the different situations he had filled prior, and up to that date, together with a letter from him, addressed to Mr Harvey the then Commissioner, wherein it will be seen he states
" I passed examination, and received notice to attend for appointment in the Metropolitan Police, but I wrote for my testimonials with a view of obtaining Inspectorship in the Bural Police Pé Gari"
In Rice's statement of the 16th of February this year, he says "In the month of March 1858 he gave his age as twenty six, which, if correct, would make him now to be upwards of forty years old. It is also notice that, on the 19th of February last, Rice stated he was a Comet in the 5th Dragoons in 1853
having previously said that after serving in the Cavalry for 18 months he went to Australia where he was about "two years with the Gold Escort in connection with the Escort Troop" and then returned to England
But in his "Declaration" to "M" Harvey he shows that he was in the Liverpool Police Force from the 17th of July 1833 to the 16th of February 1865
I am
Your most obedient Servant
Taro Stese H
The enclosures to your letter are herewith returned
A L