Outside the colony.
Choice
a
Coral
from
my own point of view I think that as a
of Gilst a special Commission
con official
The cheapest way
Committee.
is
preferable
6
would be to send Mr O'Brien to take
M. Swettenham's place in Perak and to
appoint
M.
Swettenham Special Commissioner on Colonial Secretary's
say
written at present appointing him Colonial Secretary,
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it's an immediate application. I could not however
As a rule her proper
as Mr. Johnson suggests,
were,
the
appointment of
an unofficial committee with an official president,
the
cheapest
but not think, the Governor will come to an early
decision. I have
only come to the conclusion that one Commission
not only
visits
to look into?
on tour Commissioners had better be appointed, in spite of the expense, who might be utilised. The total expenditure of Hongkong should also consider Whether it would be possible to combine the Civil Service of Hong Kong with the Civil Service of the Straits and
of the native States of the Malay Peninsula visiting Singapore for that special purpose
Mejer
and such a commissioner like James seems to be a
suitable
as well as
Hongkong Commissioner should it
men of
I am This suggestion is made with very great diffidence!
In high as I do not see absolute
Indian
with his
hands
but make another Effort to get together a mixed
Committee.
Hansen nothing else done until Mr.
O'Brien be returned to dotand. Some years ago he was
on the point of taking his leave from (Japan on
grounds of health, but as an experiment or half-pay he
went to Cyprus, entering three topics, where he did
some good work, which stood socially in are
necessity
for
the expense,
but I
Eccentric
great
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as he has true elsewhere. So there, his health being
better, tried the further Experiments of sending him
Can Suggest nothing which does not seem to have as
many numerous objections
R. Salary
fish comes of mediocrity,
ER.
I think then this is water a stroom in a
the-cash, and test it is not necessary to bring
manner, and put himself dislike
disliked"
to Story King, where he has also rendered himself
unpopular and almost impossible". There is some
to think that his health has