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I do not though in any way ress the point-
5.
As regards the last quoted despatch,
-admitted by
that a despatch written in June,
1902, cannot be regarded as governing appoint-
ments which were made in 1899 and 1901.
6.
The 1883 correspondence is somewhat
as well as
more
to the point; but I think that a careful
study of the two despatches referred to will
show that the conditions are so changed that
the principles laid down in 1883 are to some
extent obsolete, and that so far as they are
applicable, they do not justify the criticism
-st
passed by the memorials on some at least of the
appointments of which they complain.
es
7. Sir G. Boven, in his despatch submit-
ted a list of sixteen appointments, for one of
which (the Colonial Secretaryship) "cadets are
merely eligible". The list includes two ap-
pointments now assigned to the clerical service,
the Clerkship to the Executive and Legislative
Councils, and the Superintendentship of the
Gaol,