were passed to meet the difficulties attendant on the transfer of public servants from one colony to another and to enable "Officers to whom preferment is offered to know at once what their prospects
are in this respect," and allow time spent in one colony to count for ultimate pension, provided ten years have been spent in the new Colony.
Therefore, when offered employment in Hong Kong in 1882 after 28 years' service in Mauritius, I accepted it, knowing that under the rule aforesaid I would, after years spent in Hong Kong, be able to retain all previous service.
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The only other reference to the matter is in Your Lordship's letter to Sir William Robinson dated 21 June last, with reference to the rate at which the Chief Justice was entitled to draw his pay when in England, and in which reference is incidentally made to his pension, but I have been urged to request Your Lordship to reconsider the matter, and I feel confident that on a review of the case and the facts of the correspondence, Your Lordship will be completely satisfied that my claim to have my pension paid at 4s 9½d per dollar instead of 3s 7/8d is irresistible.
The objection which can be raised against my claiming the full amount of £1,166 13s 4d is that the dollar should be reckoned at 3s 7/8d instead of 4s 9½d - in accordance...
2. The facts are simple. In 1889-1890, an application was made to Your Lordship's predecessor, Lord Knutsford, for a general increase in salaries in Hong Kong on account of the great increase...