and a

a separate

Auditor with a Somerset House

Herr in a

Audit, at Hong Kong has at present not been The new system is apparently

encouraging.

U

not liked & not well understood,

how beer multiplied

Spicel

In question.

Nilamelly

a moner has been got (The loss meaned

2. Land Jobling led to Alver defalcation

1538ren Extent lips

this auditor minn

Chess Continence? before he uns

627

appointed absor him, two of whom went to Ceylon and two to the Straits. The two who went to Ceylon a

class of the Civil Service, drawing

skul

In the

fourth

aunum

only 4500 rupees for Straits have risen faster,

class

drawing 1800 #

r

*

are

The two who went to the

me

being

in the third

"

revenue, and the

as Collector of

Other in the fourth, drawing 3600 $ as magistrate.

M. Mitchell Innes is a

an important department a ♣ member

the Legislative Council, without having shawn

for Council,

But in

Hong Kong

head

g

any

and Chrus he is

only

Hunted and defe

and his do speculations seem to have been

Notoristy. The committee were surprised "Mitchell Inne had not heard a them. Minally discover

Matter

that Mi

I

Jee

of the licens

Reference should

page· 10 · g

it. It is pushin

the cast offre the

here to hear

this despatch, amble on the e

be mad: to this point in answering this despatch,

and it should be asthed whether the new rules

on the subject (22066.92) are being rigidly

Carried out.

13. The third point the moral

?

scems

to

me

to include

the Whole. The higher

appointments in the Easter Colonies by open competition. The

are manned by

best men

usually

to Ceylon.

the next

Cross

to the Straits, and we Hong Kong last. M. Mitchell Innes was appointed

at an

examination in 1888 - Four men were

Quet

extraordinary merit; and di

d

though

he

draws 4800$ that is double what at

1

drawing

ar good if not es hypothesi bettu men au

Now it is Mue that Hong Kong

in

Ceylon

is not as important as

important as Ceylon of the Straits, the chief fromm Colonies It a peopain that men

but still it is one

and it seems to me out of proportion

should live So

2 members

to be heads of departmente

quickly the Legislation Council. They

cannot

have had enough training, and the fact of

the Council so 9

members

to turn their heads & make them neglect

their

becoming

so gring

is aft

work. But, if they

are not given

Such places

1

they

Bill

for the

there are

hardly

get no promotion

any second grade appointment, in Hong Kong becapt

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