my here Certificate will show that if I can
satisby your
lordship as
to the quality of my urgent private
affairs"
obtain in all
may
Some
21
months on
half hay;
your
but even this long leave, as lordship is aware, would not of
itself form sufficient time for
me
Co
complete mij
terms at my
Inn, and therefore in making my present application for six month's extension I cannot disguise the fact that it is with the intention of & asking for further leave when I
am permitted to do so.
I beg
For
your
to
say
lordship's information that I entered the
Hong Kong Civil Service in December 844
as an alst: master. Queens College.
and
A
since that time have, with
the exception of such relief
as has
fallen to the lot of HongKong Civil
Servant's generally, receivra no
advancement.
Eleven
such a climate as
longtime in
years
is a
Trong Đông
without
preferment and it was plain to me.
that
some great effort was necessary on my part to lift me out of
the
the groove into which I had fallin and to qualify
me for more active
services than an assistant maiter_ ship was ever intended to create, In 1894 H.E. Sir wm Robinson.
to appoint me
was kind enough
a considerate
Acting First Clerk in the magistracy, this of necessity gave me practical knowledge of toriminal Law and Procedure, but aboor and beyond
intimately acquainted detail of magisterial office
this it made me
with
every
work, which I venture the lot of few legal but a part
my
to say falls to
men
This was.
part in my plan I wanted
Knowledge
to
be thorough and
this acting appointment in the service
afforded me
an
opportunity I had
-
Cong wished for: –
sun in
I entered Gray's sun
michaelmas Term last and it is
gratifying for
me
to report that on
the completion of one term I was for tunate enough to pass Constitutional Law &
my
Roman have
Regal History
Examinations, and nothing
examination
me
are
but the
before which I am
qualify.
Iow
so far as
con cerned remains.
Bar Final, for
making every effort to
There are I think within recent
years precedents of servants of
the