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declining the office" ) would be that

of Fur Wise, the young Barrietes now

acting

a s

Police Magistrate.

4. It will be seew that the fridges I how that our Francis' letter contains

several inaccurate statements. It is,

however, forcibly written, and I

with him as to the great practica!

agree

inconvenience of the frequent changes in the Croww Colonies of the Head of the

Public Departments. But, as Mr Francis admits, leave of absence at stated

intervals, or ow medical certificate,

incident of official life

is

a necessary

in countries where the health, and

mental and bodily vigour of. Englishmen cannot be preserved...

without

theg

Jam

* Mr Francis is leh

making, a

per

informed, some ty

hispre

aumum by his,

at the Bar, and we

office of the Salary is only th

declines an

without periodical change of air, scene,

and climate.

5. I agree, generally, with the arguments of the fudges on this point. Moreover, my long experience of more than a quarter of a century

as

the

Governor successively of five different Colonies, has taught me that, as a

general rule, and except in Extreme cases, it is right and Expedient to m defer to the opinion of the judges in arrangements connected witte the Supreme Court.

6 . Holding this view, I have reported the Judges to favour me with their

to the arrangements which should be made for the temporary

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