In the uncertainty which prevailed at the Colonial Office, respecting his movements, Your Lordship allowed me to draw the half pay of the Acting Government for the three months in question, on the condition, however, that I should refund it, if, owing to my misstatement of his movements, it should not prove to have been available.
I was only in reaching Hong Kong that I ascertained that Sir Arthur Kennedy had delayed his departure to the 1st of March, so that I had to pay into the Treasury the whole of the three months' half pay I received in England.
In short, whilst in the discharge of Your Lordship's instructions, I incurred certain expenses and obeying Your Lordship's instructions, I was not allowed any pay for three months. I feel very reluctant to add anything further on such a personal question, but as I have presumed to trouble Your Lordship at all about it, I may perhaps refer to the well-known fact that the first year of a Governor's service in a colony is the most trying time for him; and, in many cases, it is very expensive. As illustrations of the many such extra expenses in my case, it has occurred to me to mention that up to this date the...
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In the uncertainty which prevailed at the Colonial Office, respecting his movements, Your Lordship allowed me to draw the half pay of the Acting Government for the three months in question, on the condition, however, that I should refund it, if, owing to my misstatement of his movements, it should not prove to have been available.
I was only in reaching Hong Kong that I ascertained that Sir Arthur Kennedy had delayed his departure to the 1st of March, so that I had to pay into the Treasury the whole of the three months' half pay I received in England.
In short, whilst in the discharge of Your Lordship's instructions, I incurred certain expenses and obeying Your Lordship's instructions, I was not allowed any pay for three months. I feel very reluctant to add anything further on such a personal question, but as I have presumed to trouble Your Lordship at all about it, I may perhaps refer to the well-known fact that the first year of a Governor's service in a colony is the most trying time for him; and, in many cases, it is very expensive. As illustrations of the many such extra expenses in my case, it has occurred to me to mention that up to this date the...
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is kept as is. The final answer is:In the uncertainty which prevailed at the Colonial Office, respecting his movements, Your Lordship allowed me to draw the half pay of the Acting Government for the three months in question, on the condition, however, that I should refund it, if, owing to my misstatement of his movements, it should not prove to have been available.
I was only in reaching Hong Kong that I ascertained that Sir Arthur Kennedy had delayed his departure to the 1st of March, so that I had to pay into the Treasury the whole of the three months' half pay I received in England.
In short, whilst in the discharge of Your Lordship's instructions, I incurred certain expenses and obeying Your Lordship's instructions, I was not allowed any pay for three months. I feel very reluctant to add anything further on such a personal question, but as I have presumed to trouble Your Lordship at all about it, I may perhaps refer to the well-known fact that the first year of a Governor's service in a colony is the most trying time for him; and, in many cases, it is very expensive. As illustrations of the many such extra expenses in my case, it has occurred to me to mention that up to this date the...
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