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Assistant Registrar General, had applied for the post of Assistant Colonial Secretary, and enquiring what measures I recommend
for filling the vacancy.
2.
"The matter is, at
one
present, of considerable difficulty. There can, I am informed, be no doubt that Mr. Mitchell-Innes is, in
all respects, highly qualified for the duties of the office,
and would have been _
recommended.
recommended to Your Lordship
for the post, when it broame
vacant; but neither then
Now, was
he
nor
or is he likely
to be able to discharge the
duties for
some considerable
time to come. He will not
return to the Colony until
the end of this
year, and it is almost certain that he
will then have to take Mr Lockhart's place,
do
Registrar
General. Mr. Lookhart will be absent for 12 months at
least