These at Penang and also cast doubt on the desirability
of fusing the civil services of Hong Kong
and the Straits
so as to
offer promotion indifferently to
Chinese operating officers
differently in either colony. I shall be obliged to be
favoured with an expression
of your views;
and in the meantime it would be
as well not to communicate
with Mr. Mitchell Innes
I think this had
better be said
CPL
857
743
that is
a transfer
in contemplation