Magistracy, Hong Kong
6th September 1901.
C.O. 36047
&
IREC Rect 1-1 OCT 01
Sir,
I have the honour to submit myself as a candidate for the appointment of Second Police Magistrate in the event of the said office being vacant.
After reading law at Trinity Hall Cambridge for four years, I was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1891. I then worked in a barrister's chambers for nearly three years, and subsequently practised in this colony from 1895 until May 1900, when I began to act in my present post of First Clerk at the Magistracy, my appointment whereto was confirmed in September 1900.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant
Melbourne
TO
The Right Honourable
Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.
Secretary of State for the Colonies.