advantageons.
geons to
my pecuniary
interests.
and would endeavour to regain my
aw
lost health by long leave, but that d medically advised such a contre, however grateful to my hopes, may by alluring temporarily improved health, only
tually in neore
pre
end eventual!
back, later, in
more serion.
consequences to my self.
It was not without
effort that some
some mon
months
1-great I
ago
brought unspelf to realize, that it was my plain dicty to the Government to relinquish a post to which, even
under
temporarily improved physical health, I could not de justice, and the resolve then
tüken I would now
agam
respectfully
wish to adhere to, in the honest
conviction that
my
retirement at.
once is best in the interests of
public service, for it is very
the
The important that whower we went out
to the Colony as my. here with the feeling that he
to
366 should come
τώ
to retain
office permanently, and to be allowed
complete the great works which he to to initiate during 1889.
In these circumstances, therefore, I will now
and holding
there
opinions,
if agreeable to Your Excellency ack leave to retire from the service after I have balanced the accounts of the
to a close,
year
drawing
a tack which I could not well leave to
others, and one
which I shall be
of
the better able to finish under the recent provisional arrangement by which • Ur Cooper is relieving
conviderable portion of my
Be work, I have. (Liquid) J. M. Brice
a