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them with more chance of success; but my own idea is that the creation of the appointment of a Governor-in-Chief is an antecedent and a sine quâ non tó combining Civil Services; and that a Governor-General, however experienced and capable, cannot be efficient throughout his dominions without the most ample means of communication; for a weekly mail service, and telegraphic communication in the hands of com- panies, who naturally put commercial before Government interests, there must be substituted Government steamers and railways, and Govern- ment telegraph lines, which at any reasonable cost the Government must use freely.

When I was at Mafeking in 1886 it would have been a hopeless task, with the High Commissioner at Capetown, then about six days off, to have done anything in the way of organizing the adininistra- tion of Bechuanaland, without the Governmer.t telegraph line, which we used as freely as speaking tubes in a public office, though nearly 1,000 miles

away.

Yes. This was recognised in West Africa, and for years Parliament paid for a steamer for the Governor-

in-Chief, but it did not en- able him to govern all the

Colonies.-R. L. A.

triel and failerl. -R. L.. A.

If such communication can be established, and two good Governor-Generals could be discovered to undertake the task in the West Indies, and on the West Coast of Africa, I believe a Civil Service In West Africa the plan for each of those groups of Colonies could be of a Governor-General with organized without much difficulty but the former his own steamer has been should be so arranged that local candidates of fair abilities and education should not be kept out in favour of men from home, however many first classes they may have got; and the latter can hardly be entered by caulets in the ordinary sense, as the experience of Colonel Lugard's Force this last year has proved more than ever the soundness of the rule, which has prevailed more or less since 1874, of not sending out young men under 25 to those climates; and to examine men from 25 to 30 would be often to invite the competition of men who had failed in other professions,

But beyond this, I do not consider there is much scope for action on the lines advocated by Lord Selfogue; nor do I pretend that this would do anything in the way of producing better Colonial Governors, which is apparently Lord Selborne's principal aim. The mass of the Colonies are too poor to pay their servants highly, and they will therefore, as at present constituted, not be likely to attract and keep in their service many men of that high class who alone should be deemed worthy representatives of their Sovereign. For these selection must be made in a wider field than the Civil Service of the Colonies themselves.

Lastly, if a small Departmental Committee is to be appointed to go further into the general question -the West Indian and West African ones being better dealt with in their respective Departments- I would strongly urge that some Governors and ex-Governors of experience should be added to it : those who have had actual experience on the spot of administering more than one class of Colonial Government, and of adjusting the Departmental

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relations of the Civil Service proper with the professional and other special service men employed under them, would be better able to appreciate the. difficulties of the problem than those whose work here has been almost entirely conducting corre- spondence. It is so much easier to preach and to criticise than to execute.

15th November.

ANTECEDENTS OF COLONIAL GOVERNORS (present, and who have retired within the last

after holding more than one Governorship),

years,

2241

Colonial, but service in Non-Civil" Branches,

Pure Colonial Civil Servier (including Governors' Private Secretaries).

Home Civil Ser-

Legal.

Medical.

Educational.

| Military (includ-

Engineering).

Sir W. Maxwell.

Str. Smith (F.C.)

Sir G. T. O'Brien (E.C.)

Sir W. H. Hutchinson, Mr. D. Wilson.

Mr. Grey Wil-on.

Mr. P. II. Templar (E.C.)|

Sir W. C. F. Robinson.

Sir G. Y. Lagilen.

Mr. H. L. Thompson.

Mr. C. A. King-Harnan

Sir A. Musgrave.

bir C. Kortright (!)

Sir J. Longden.

Mr. T. Risely Griffith.

Mr. Cockburn Stewart. Sir W. B. Brandford

Griffith.

Sir F. Fleming. Sir S. Rowe.

Sir C. Bruce.

SirW.P. Haynos, SirW.Macgregor, Sir W. Senilall.

Smith.

Sir S. Shippardl.

Mr. T. Kerr.

ing Police and

vice (liever).

Sir T. O'Brien,

| Col. McCallum.

Sir J. Hay. Major G. Adams.

Sir W. Robin-..

Sir H. Blake. Sir II. Murray. Sir A. Milner, Sir R. G. G. Mamit.

tut).

Inelinn.

Sir 11. Norm.

Sir P. Grant.

Si. A. Phayre

Sir B. Frere.

Mr. Stermale.

F. R.

Mixed, but with Military beginnings,

Lord Rosmend. Lord Loch. Sir A. Havelock. Sir C. Mitchell. Col. Sandwith. Cal, Sir F. Cardew, Sir M. Clarke.

Sir A. Moloney. Sir 6. P. Colley,

Sir C. Lees,

Col, Harley.

sir R. Golds.

worthy. Siri, Strahan.

Parliamentary.

Sir W. Gregory.

Sir Pope Hen-

-nessey.

Sir G. Smith. Lord Gormanston, Sir J. Ferguson, Sir II. Barkly.

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Mixol, but without Military

beginnings.

Sir G. Bowen. Sir Holerningham. Sir H. Bulwer. Sir R. B. Llewelyni Sir F. M. Hodgson. Sir G. T. Carter. Sir H. Irving.

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