that
you have by neglect
or omission of duty; "in effect, allowed the frauds to be committed" or rather, as he would put it, to be continued when they might have been discovered at an earlier date and some public loss at least might have been saved.
A
At this distance of time and after the full enquiry that has taken place, Sir Charles Fitz does not think it necessary to comment upon the transactions as thus disclosed, or remind you that an Auditor
the
who fails to report an irregularity is assuming a responsibility which does not lie within his functions, and that insidious as the task of exposing it may be, it is the discharge of a plain and obvious duty incidental to the office and essential to its usefulness.
In conclusion I am bound
that though glad that the discovery of these frauds of so long standing was due to the action of the local Audit, Sir Charles Fitz cannot but express his sense of disappointment that you as an officer of so much acknowledged merit should have justly laid yourself open to the censure of the Secretary of State, of the Governor of the Colony, and of the Commission of enquiry.
I have, &c.,
Sd.] J. Phillips.
Office or Individual.
Post
Date.
1893
28 Aug
Confidential
No. 14798
(Subject.)
C. O.
DOMESTIC.
14798 RECE[Rec 29 10C 33]
Money order agreement
Hong Kong & U. States
Concur in
draft
with observations
and
st previous Paper.
Refer to subsequent Paper.
WB & I. 178, -57120-1099-3-93
50
1875
320
amended pattern advice lists.
M. Wilson
(Minutes.)
M. Bramston
Strike out paper's, as suggested, in
articles, and then send the draft to
the Foreign Office for communication to the U.S. government, sending
also extract
of this letter as marked the enclosures.
= Send also copy of the letter and the
enclosures to Hongkong
at once
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