Where it had been definitely a Hongkong minute could not be applied to another colony.
M- Marsh Von the State were adopted in the colony, although they were never finally adopted on approval at home. It is doubtful how this colonial minute, which had passed under ordinance to be discarded, was valid. The home government did not formally approve it until the despatch of Sir M. H. Brash at the end of 1878. When appointed Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong on 1 May 1878, although it appears that the Treasury would "consider recommended another scheme to the Treasury.
Whether his service in Hong Kong was continuous with that in Mauritius was told that the Colonial Office could not pledge any decision but that he should receive all the favourable consideration that could properly be accorded to him. 15839.78 -1. 1870.
The question then, I presume, turns on -1. Whether the Hong Kong minute was valid at all -2. Whether it can be considered to have been invalidated by Sir M. Beach's despatch of 1878, which was recorded when he arrived from the Straits.
As the 1869 rules were favourably recommended before Marsh arrived there, it was not valid, as far as I can judge, at all in the absence of definite approval from the Colonial government by the Treasury; and further, Sir M. H. Bore...
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