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the day when this Excellency introduced M. Clarke an his arrival from Shanghai instead of welcoming him with the courtesy due to

genstemand of professional)

standing and acquirements which at the

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least

ten?

quite

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a

par with

had

you informed him that he

aow you

cque down to take MN! Bird!

half Salary from you.

14.

Wishwallacy would receive with

mcredulity

a

-statement of such an

avowedly selfish clarin to

av

exclusive

right to the puquisites of office,

not that Mr. Clarke in the Governor's

fresmeer

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The day

were it

د

question charged

you with having just accused him of taking from you Mr Bird: half. Salary-

77

a

staterned which

did not then

deny. It is also curtain that not merly did you express youself aggrieved by Mr Clark's appointment defriving your of

a

half Salary

but

you subsequently

admitted to the Acting Colonial Secretary

had told My Clarke that

you had told

do what

Yar

yar

would

could to injure hime. You will observed that in forming

their opinions

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грешил

conduct in the

abour particulars, His Excellency and the

Cancil do not in the least found their

conclusions

av

the

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of Mr Clark. In the

supported statements

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Concil hour formed their own

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of the

The reasons

conclusion

given by Mr

Clarke for the impossibility of his