reasons mentioned by him that his salary increased.
2.
salary should be Commander Wastings arrived in the Colony on the 15th of March last, and assumed the duties of Assistant Harbour Master in accordance with what I understood to be the terms mentioned in Your Lordship's despatches No. 144 of the 4th of September, 1888, and No. 226 of the 14th of November, 1889.
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In paragraph 2 of these despatches Your Lordship approved of Sir G. William Des Vaux's proposal to consolidate the salary of the Assistant Harbour Master by raising it to $2,640 a year, on the understanding laid down in the 4th paragraph of the Governor's despatch No. 186 of the 6th of July, 1888, viz. that the holder of the appointment would