14
was
14.-
to act for him.
requested
Colonel Caine then
me
to wait
on
an
Merger and offer him apology for having performed the duties of Colonial Secretary; but this I instantly declined, saying that I was the offended party, adding, at the same
- time, that, - irrespective of my having rated for Colonel Caine subsequent to betober 1857, it
was
also
the
rule
in New
South Wales (and I believe in other Colonies), for the Chief
Clark
in
the office to undertake the duties of the Colonial Secretary when absent,
I showed him from sundry Printed Papers, being Proceedings If the Legislative Council of that
Colony presented to the Government of Hongkong,
15.
75
as well
as
from letters
on
record
addressed to Colonel Caine by Mr Elgard, Junior, acting for My Secretary Thompson. -
15.
Colonel Caine did not deny the justice of my case, and said that he would sheak
to the Acting Lovernor; but that, in the meantime, he would go
and offer
aw
apology to Mr Mereer, for the fault
was
entirely his; - which he did._
16.-
The Acting Governor
to the offices.
in
Came
the course
of the forenoon (8th November), and Colonel Caine desired me to speak to this Excellency
not
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