CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 443

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W. Hicksm

Brown. Lol? Je,

of Gaskell Brown; of the

Letti. from

Some well secured the business of the Colony:

one....

Lam Sorry that you are recessarily compelled to retire

at home must have Eadly misled you.

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in which there will notre do great a

obtained a position. home but Shust that we shall soon hear of your having

disparity beliveen

unk

and

tenuneralem,

With best wishes for four Lafe anival amongst family

and friends in the.

S.I. Wickson &

the old Country

My Dear Hickson.

Freman

Jous lincere

Edward R. Stace,

Hong Kong. 17. Job" 1857.

I cannot but ugret that

have been comfilled.

are placed I do not see that you for the Colony, Still under the circumstances in which you bresign you Offices of Crown Loheitss, Queens hocker. Coroner de

so.

alternative but to

by Govencerent; your duties could not be consecrationsly Colony and support gruself on the very hifting Salary allowed do to, as it was morally impossible for you to remain in the:

any

that you had

Clerk and au

the cent of a puper office would have entirely Efficient Bailiffs, the salaries for which, with

performed without ast off of assistants, at least one good

Lalary.

20

left you

sosmall a

manger

that it would be aband

eaten up your

office viz. One European and a Portuguese boy-cat-us

to think of suppenting youself whom it. The clacks in our

year.

that must be

increased; after an experience oftume six years and

a yeau between them, and next

£290

upwards

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Ifind that a respectable posi

upwards Single man ition cannot be kept up under, at least. 120. Dollars per mouth, and even then rigid Economy must be practised, your entire Lalary only amounts 6 that suun! Lam Que that you

be good wishes, not only 4 you to England the of the pirfession . but of the Community in general, and wishing

and a happy reunion with

your

Cany

with

you a pesteuns voyage and family- Believe me 4 remaire.

James Scher Sickson Erg.

ん

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from very faith fully

James Brown.

Pol! & Not? Put.

of the frim of Gaskell HBrown,

The oriquials of the jne going Letters are in possession

of Memorialist and ready pur production whenever required;

SODIAKOR

RESIGNATION OF MR J. J. HICKSON. We are sorry, but not astonished, to learn, that the colony has lost the of Mr J. J. Hicksou, Crown Solicitor, Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, and Proctor of Admiralty, to which he was gazettel so; lately as in the begining of December | last, and which offices he filled with credit to himself and benefit to the community. His principal reason for resigning the ap- pointments was, the total innlequacy of the salary allowed him by government, and which £285 a-year-was utterly dispro- portionate to the arduous duties he had to perform, and even to his support, in this colony. More than two-thiols of the above amount, we are assured, had been expend ed in office contingencies alone. We have also heard of another resignation of goy- ernment employ on the same grounds. Both these resignations, be it noted, are by Englishmen, not aliens-who, it would appear, are soon likely to monopolize all the fattest government offices.

Ma Hickson, the recently arrived Crown So- licitor, Proctor, Coroner and Deputy Sherift. has tendered his resignation, we hear, on the ground that the remuneration of $115 a month is insufficient. After paying $15 or so for office rent, a like sum for the smallest and least En. glish understand og Portuguese copyist pro- curable, and the aggregate of these for extra Bailiff, about as much remains monthly a the Club house offer for a Chinese Cook, and" whether that is sufficient for a gentleman of education and experience, the public must form an opinion for themselves.

During his short stay among 19, Mr Ilick- w's general urbanity, and strict attention to duty, have won for him golden opinions on all

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