CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6] — Page 325

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joined the Port office here when it was under Imperial control, and that this Government Ins Knowledge of his antecedents, he having arrived in this Colony from Melbourne early in 1857 looking for employment. A vacancy occurring amongst the clerks in the

office, he was

Post

was appointed to it

in March 1857 by Mr. Chapman,

who was at that time the Deputy

Post Master General, and

the

upon

transfer of the

office

to the Colony in

Assistant

1850, Mr. Mitchell was continued

in his mucent: Office of Post-Master General

am

I mention there facts

as

7

321

I

aware that MW. Anstey forwarded to Sir Rdward Lytton with

With agedy his letter of the 17th May 1859

q

1:14 page 407.

Blue Book (aid.

"Before Parliament,

No not printed

in the volume

Bublished

Andoure from

an

anonymous

an

correspondente in Houstong (who I am satisfied from the context was Mr. Minnow) in which it

stated that Mi? snitchell And

was

"served two years under penal "servitude for embezzling

I to not think there is a

shadow

7 which is indignantly tinied by Mr. Mitchell, who has also given in a note to Mr. Alexander of

bruth in this statement

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