CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 381

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Governor to take.

مل

any

action calculated

inpure the prospects of

and

Imay

a Public Servant,

Wilson to be informed of the resolution of the Executive bouncil dec

permanent tinure of office

declaring

to be

the C#

his

inexpedient.

Even then, I

was in hopes that by.

some

add that I regard the

necessity for such action, however

imperative,

the Public

مة

a serious misfortune to

Service

not

merely by

reaso

of the Scandal resulting from such cases, beut still more so by the fueling which they must create of insecurity

temure of office-

a

in the

point in which

Government employment, though lefo

Cremunerative, is supposed

over

to command a

employment in private

Public Companies.

preference firms

ON

5.

I have, therefore, been

very reli

reluctant

to move in this matter, and it

was

till the 1 que instant that I caused M?

not

frank admission of his errors and a

really candid apology for that part of

his conduct, which most

Geublemen

would

for, he

only have been too happy to atone

might have founded a fair claim to

further consideration, and

and so of

spared

indulgence,

me the pain of transmitting

and Your Grace of perusing an unpleasant sample of the most disagreable of all

Kinds o

of correspondence, viz that which is filled with details of personal differences

and u

unseemly altercation.

b. In this hope I have been altogether

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