that date, tended to
show that the Acting Governor was aware at that time
of the general rule in such cases matters, and
that the officers whose cases dealt with in
that dispatch were
to be regarded as exceptions
to the rule.
2. No reply appears
to have been sent
from Atkey to this
Circular of 12 March
1879
3. Under these
Circumstances I hesitate
to make any further exceptions to the general rule except on special
grounds, but before
declining altogether
to entertain Dr Adami's
application, I should be
glad to know what other
officers of the Hongkong Government not required
to give their whole time to the public service
and whether any
such who had entered the
service between 1859
and 1879
had been granted or refused pension privileges