"I would, however, respectfully suggest that
q
allowance of
£ 200 per annum, one
half to be paid by the Imperial Spet office
and
the remaining moiety by the Coliny would not more than
meet the equity of the ease, making the total Imperial_ Annual Expenditure £1,37/0
againet Imperial receipte
Querr
exceeding
annum.
£23,000 per
(True Extract).
Gardner Austin
a
Colonial Secre
thus
103
Extract from Despatch, 4: 364%, of 23rd. September, 1867, from Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell to stis Grace The Duke of Buckinghams and Chande
"6.
All the
Alre
lime as IN.
Mitchell has been recently recommended
for.
increas
of salary
on account.
of the responsibility thrown him by placing all the Post Offices in China and Japon wonder the direct control of this Government, I have informed him that I can only undertake, with Your Grace = sanction, to make up
his present
palary to £1,200 per annum