to enable him to be called to the Bar, cannot be acceded to without inconvenience to the public service.
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I am unable to perceive that any benefit would be likely to accrue to the public service of this Colony from his being called to the Bar. A knowledge of law is not necessary for the discharge of his duties in Queen's College and appointments of a legal nature in the Government service being very few, it is certain that there will be many candidates with greater claims to any vacancy that may occur than those of Mr Jameson, even were he qualified as a barrister. In this connection I may remind you that it was decided by Lord Knutsford in his despatches No. 540/42 of 28th November, 1891, and No. 109 of 26th April, 1892, that Cadets, upon passing a prescribed examination...