DRAFT.
Hong Kong.
No. 43
Governor
Sir W. Robinson, K.C.M.G.
MINUTE.
dratton
HONG KONG
3038
Downing Street,
1 February, 1892.
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Mr. Johnson 15 Feb.
X Mr. Lucas
XMr. Fairfield
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Sir,
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Brampton.
Mr. Meade.
SindhfHedzet.
Baroh de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
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UnS.JS's
I imprend that
he is gained
I have the honour to acknow- ledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 12 of the 12th ultimo, reporting that Mr. Wise has not yet passed the exam- ination in Chinese, on which the con- firmation of his appointment as Police Magistrate was to depend, and suggest- ing that the examination should be dis-
pensed with.
2. I regret that I am unable to
allow Mr. Wise to be exempted from the
condition on which he was expressly
offered and accepted his present ap- pointment; and which he was again dis-
tinctly informed by Lord Stanley's Des- patch of the 14th of August 1885 must
be complied with.
3. Mr. Wise must therefore, onue
The naminatin for-all,<be required to pass within
18 months from the date at which the
present Despatch is received, whatever
ured acting appointments he may be holding
in