they have appeared.
so much
myself
to
40
to
me for from bey reconcilable.
5.
question I enclose herewith.
From this document
179
will
you
perceive
that nothing
was
mentioned
dd
to
my
pension
and
being
temporary
that I concluded to surrender
your mercy, praying for your
Condescension to consider
-
decide that I
may
my
Case I
be permitted to retire
pension. Before entering into details,
I respectfully beg to ask your indulg and pardon for encroaching on your
time.
3.
in
4.
1
f
ence
valuable
joined the Hongkong Civil service
april, 1873.
In 1895,
on
the recommendation
the then Police Magistrate, my post
Second Clerk in the Magistracy
abolished and I
Arts
whether I would retire
request I assented.
wd s
asked by the Government
on
pension, to which
a copy of
the document
in d
brought up in
one
Not having been
Commercial line of life,
I would have appealed from being pensioned
off
had it been made clear to
me
that I was
at the
liable to be recalled at
the pleasure of the Government. As I was
not supplied with
my pension papers after
I had left the service,
aware
of
recur
I did not become
the suggestion that "an
of re-employing
of the Officials whose posts
are
abolished".
After the exposure of the gambling
scandal in
1897, I was
recalled to the
service at a time when I was properly installed.