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for obtaining employment in England as any pension I may have
earned would be insufficient for my maintenance.
5. In addition to the above statement I beg to
submit the following additional facts on which I venture to
rely to exculpate myself.
6. I attribute the present state of my health
to the attack of typhoid fever from which I suffered in 1894.
I had not been out of bed more than a fortnight when the
first outbreak of Plague occurred. To go on leave then was
quite out of the question. In the following year I was ordered
down to the Sanitary Board on special service in connection
with the second outbreak of plague and it was not until July
1896 that I was able to take a portion of the three years'
leave that had accumulated in my favour.
7. During the time I was on leave in England
I was in a low nervous state of health and since my return to
this Colony the symptoms descrihed above have recurred in full
force,
8. In addition to the above I may mention that
I attended as a guest at the popular social function on the
30th.ultimo and this combined with the statement of having
to have recourse to stimulants to enable me to carry on my
work accounts entirely for the condition in which I was found
on the 2nd, instant.
9. In the unfortunate circumstance in which I
am now placed I feel it only remains for me to throw myself
on the clemency of His Excellency the Governor hoping that as
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