8
may.
under the painful
circumstances
of my
case
to
Q
sum) so small
be
583
as
to
preclude the possibility of existing
on
it, my
case will, I venture
to think, appear a peculiarly
pleased to approve...
Looking back to 1862
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when. I first left England Assistant Postmaster General of bingstong, with the prospect of retirement at the of ten
years
expiration
Service
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the
relative pension of my Salary- Then I 500 per annum, and. contrasting it with
position
a.
my present
Sorter in this
Department at half that Salary, namely: £250 pen annum, my retiring pension upon my salary being reduced
hard ond
in the whole
Course
of my
Career,
There
has been no shadow of reflection
upon my
character, and had
it not been for the symporting
I have
from
4
Thre
abundanity received
Caffiners of
༣
The
Government, with whom Thave been acquainted from the time to the bolomp of my coming I should probably
succumbed to
misfortunes...
have
my great