Straits Settlements, and asking whether
325
respectively 5 years and 3 months,
years
and 3 months service
joint application. I
I desire to add to that number and to
and 3 years
here
take part in a
and their salaries and
allowances
amount to $3060 and
$2340 per annum. They
are
both
have replied in the negative.
I take this opportunity of informing
Your Lordship that I could easily
dispense with the
services of two of
the Cadets already in the Government
Service of Hongkong, and to ask Your
Lordship whether it would not be
possible to promote them to the
Straits Settlements instead of
sending to that Colony two new
Cadets.
The gentlemen I refer to are Messrs
Brewin
and Radeley. They have
respectively
good officers, and well grounded in
Chinese, especially Mr Brewin.
If Your Lordship should be able
to meet my suggestion there would
still be left here 3 cadets, viz,
Messrs
Sercombe Smith, A.M. Thomson and
I. J. F. Buckle who are qualifying
for the higher offices of the Service,
and who give every promise of
being able to fill them satisfactorily
later on.
If provision