when the time would come for filling up the appointment so vacated.
2.
After my long services, which have been acknowledged on several occasions by the local experience which I had gained and the kind assurances which I received from Your Lordship I submit I had some reason to expect that my application would be successful.
I have as yet received no answer thereto but have learnt that the post has been offered to and accepted by Mr. Goodman Chief Justice of British Honduras.
3.
Within little more than a year two offices in Hongkong which I had filled temporarily for one year and the other for nearly two years have been bestowed on Gentlemen both my juniors in the service by very many years and the repeated promises which have been made to me have received no effect.
4. Under these circumstances and seeing that I am now 51 years of age it is more important that I should lose no opportunity of advancing my interests. I again respectfully but most earnestly beg to place before Your Lordship a short statement of my services and to submit my Name as a candidate for the first vacancy in Hongkong either in Judicial or any other department.
5. I entered the service in September 1853. In June 1864 I was appointed Acting Clerk in the Master's Office in Mauritius. In June 1866 on the death of the Master...