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I deem it therefore unnecessary on the present occasion to repeat beyond stating that I will
On
Door
Colonial Service has not been a bar to further advancement has offered,
and
I would
Que
opportunity the fact, promotion large that from 1866 I received no complete
tile 1882, and my fortretted gear of Service, having always filled Offices connected with Courts of Justice
I have held in
and that since 1882 Hongtong judicial appointments.
1882. Registrar of the Supreme Court General
1885. Acting Puisne Judge.
1886.2
1887 ) Acting Attorney
1890. Acting Attorney General
1891.
Acting Chief Justice.
Puisne Judge,
and Acting
1892.
Appointed Puisne Judge.
1873. Acting Chief Justice
Should it be objected that it was only last year I was appointed to the Office I at present hold, I would respectfully submit that in some respects, in recent promotion in the Colonial Service, I occupied the office again from 1882 to 1892.
Moreover I would beg leave to state that from what Lord Knutsford and Sir Robert Herbert both told me, I have reason to believe that when the Office of Puisne Judge became vacant in 1888, my claims to that Office were not considered owing to the necessity of providing for Mr Fielding Clarke. My promotion was delayed for four years.
Under these circumstances I respectfully submit I have a strong claim to your Lordship's favourable consideration of my present application and as I hope I have several years still to serve, I have the honour to offer myself as a candidate for the above mentioned office trusting that my long years of service and the manner