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10. It is not improbable that, even if Mr. Creagh cannot be permitted to retain his position in the Punjab Police or be allowed to count his service here, he will nevertheless consent to come to Hong Kong. I fear, however, that he will do this under an impression of my having it in my power hereafter to do more for him than I can, and I am therefore very reluctant to interfere with his future prospects in the Indian service.
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II. I trust Your Excellency may find yourself able to take a favourable view of the request herein preferred and to issue early the necessary directions for that purpose. Not knowing any other suitable channel through which to make this communication I have been obliged to trouble Your Excellency with these details.
Extract, paragraphs 2 and 3, of a letter from the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to Mr. G. V. Creagh, No. 652, dated 30th November 1866,
2. His Excellency is writing by this post to the Governor General of India to inform him of his wish to obtain your services at Hong Kong, without prejudice, if possible, to your future promotion under the Indian Government, and requesting that service here may count in your favour for promotion in the Punjab Police hereafter.
3. It is, however, very probable that this request may be one impossible to comply with; and you will then have to consider whether the prospect of £400 per annum here, with quarters, offers a sufficient inducement for abandoning your career in India.
Extract, paragraph 6, of a letter to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, No. 126, dated the 7th January 1867.
6. In regard to Mr. Creagh, I am desired to intimate, for His Excellency's information, that the Government of India would be unable to allow his service in China to count as service in India or towards pension; but there would be no objection to the retention of his name in the Police List of the Punjab, to which, if he wished, he might revert within a given time-say two or three years.
No. 621, dated 18th April 1867.
From-T. H. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to the Government of the Punjab and its Dependencies, To-E. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India.
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and its enclosure, No. 3678, dated 11th instant, and to state that the instructions communicated therein will be carefully carried out, and that Mr. Creagh will be enjoined to use all practicable expedition so as to be enabled to embark with his men in one or other of the vessels indicated,
2. As regards Mr. Creagh himself, the arrangement which the Lieutenant-Governor proposes is that he receives a promise of the first vacancy that may occur after his return should he come back within five years, and of restoration to the rank and position he would have occupied in case he had remained. To keep his place vacant for a period of five years would undeniably be most inconvenient and prejudicial.
No. 1073, dated 6th June 1857.
From-E. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India,
To-T. H. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to the Government of the Punjab.
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7th January, to the Government of Kong, enclosed in this office letter No. 127 of 11th April last, the same date; also letter No. 3678, paragraph 2.
I am desired to acknowledge your letter No. 621, dated 18th April. As regards the promise given to Mr. Creagh, the Governor General in Council considers that it exceeds the limits within which His Excellency signified his willingness to allow Mr. Creagh to retain his connection with the Punjab Police, His Excellency considers it very undesirable that any absentee who may leave India (it may be presumed for reasons of his own convenience or advantage) should be allowed to retain his connection with his appointment in India for so lengthened a period as five years, or that it should be guaranteed by a promise binding on any future Lieutenant-Governor or Governor General.
2. His Excellency regrets that, in the present instance, he was not made aware of the conditions permitted to Mr. Creagh in time, with reference to the date fixed for the embarkation of the men, effectually to express his opinion; and as Mr. Creagh has now sailed on the faith of the terms accorded to him, His Excellency will not interfere with the arrangement, further than to request that it may not be drawn into any precedent for the future.
3. I take this opportunity of forwarding, for the Lieutenant-Governor's information, copy of a further communication from the Government of Hong Kong, No. 201, dated the 15th April.
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