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extraction, though also a native
No. A. M. Travers, Record Clerk in the
Colonial Secretary's office, to be Assistant Fortmaster-General.
and Chinese, born in the
No exception of
The Colony, M.S. Seth, the Chief
Clerk, who is
of
Indo-Armenian
am requested by Mr.
Travers to
to Your Lordship
Re repression of
4. M. Travers has been in charge
of
the correspondence with the Secretary
of
State, which the Instructions of
His
Convey
of his
grateful Thanks.
3. The merits and usefulness
of the young
man are proved by the great inconvenience occasioned by the
loss
of his Services in the Colonial
Secretary's office. It is there the only Englishman and one of seven Clerks, five
on the Establishment, and one
temporary; the rest being Portuguese
and
Chinese.
Several successive Ministers direct to
be kept, in the case
of
Crown Colonies,
in the Office of the Colonial Secretary, and not at the Government House or in the Governor's Office,
as is the
rule in Colonies possessing Parliamentary
Government