CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 561

The

may

to a great extent. It is said of the Consular Departments under the Foreign Office -

There is

yet another difference

between the Colonial Service and both

these classes: the

one of which is sustained by the knowledge that his residence in the Country

is attended with profit, while the other is consoled by the constant chance

of promotion, which

has been largely distributed -

Climate

But from the exhausting

of Hongkong there

is no escape for

the Colonial Officer, save by removal to England on medical certificate, and honourable retirement.

An

instance of this removal has availed,

What this

Amount

to 97

as well

Casualties is in the

the Hongkong Service, may

from the short appendix to

gathered

my

January last, which formed

7. 18th January

Enclosure in despatch to Colonial

Office No: 14 of

25th January,

Characterized by Sir John Bowring

as "reasonings containing little

and was

"facts most

"justly entitled to attention

I have also mentioned above

to perform;

the work I have been called

and more

under this head I shall only say that

I calculate it at three times what fell to

my predecessors, and Executed at two thirds of their Salary -

It would therefore act on the foregoing facts does not

Justify

nor Justify

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Leaving

a removal to

one not within

my bieller chuite, and

the means, and I would also point out that any appointment, to which you, may give the opportunity and the will to prefer me, should be of sufficient importance to negative the imputation or suspicion that

it is

Should the

be effected by the transfer.

prevent even

discredit

intended

arrangement

or inconvenient, that I have prayed

I propose be impracticable I have only to remark

up all

my

dues to the Superannuation

in the alternative,

Fund, and shall be glad,

to retire from the Public Service, if Pension be awarded me,

that the

(with

my

Civil Service

suitable to my

regulated by the Consideration

utterly unable to lay by any portion of

annual salaries, or make any provision

for the future-

In submitting this representation

I hope to be understood as

no Complaint.

I undertook to serve

in Hongkong

and I have served here

and I shall continue to serve here, if my present applications be

granted;

but if refused,

now that the change is commencing

to have gradual but certain effect. I am surely justified in

asking,

I do now ask in recapitulation,

for employment elsewhere, or retirement

on sufficient grounds.