CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12] — Page 110

"I would, however, respectfully suggest that

q

allowance of

£ 200 per annum, one

half to be paid by the Imperial Spet office

and

the remaining moiety by the Coliny would not more than

meet the equity of the ease, making the total Imperial_ Annual Expenditure £1,37/0

againet Imperial receipte

Querr

exceeding

annum.

£23,000 per

(True Extract).

Gardner Austin

a

Colonial Secre

thus

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Extract from Despatch, 4: 364%, of 23rd. September, 1867, from Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell to stis Grace The Duke of Buckinghams and Chande

"6.

All the

Alre

lime as IN.

Mitchell has been recently recommended

for.

increas

of salary

on account.

of the responsibility thrown him by placing all the Post Offices in China and Japon wonder the direct control of this Government, I have informed him that I can only undertake, with Your Grace = sanction, to make up

his present

palary to £1,200 per annum