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as before, but to be drawn from the £400 voted on the Estimates for the Office of Assistant Superintendent of Police instead heretofore from the allowance of £100 granted to Mr. Wodehouse from the Special Fund. This request Mr. Antin complied with, as long as necessity existed for filling up the vacant post of Assistant Superintendent of Police.

As to Mr. Ball, I think I cannot do better than refer Your Lordship to Mr. Antin's despatch, No. 187 of the 12th October, 1875, a copy of which I have the honour to enclose, which in submitting the appointment to Your Lordship's approval details the circumstances attending it. As, however, I observe that a few months elapsed before Your Lordship was apprised of the appointment, I think it right to explain that in February, 1875, a temporary vacancy having been caused in the Registrar General's office by the removal of Mr. Parker from that office to the Magistracy, I offered the first temporary arrangement to Ball, who was described to me...

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as before, but to be drawn from the £400 voted on the Estimates for the Office of Assistant Superintendent of Police instead heretofore from the allowance of £100 granted to Mr. Wodehouse from the Special Fund. This request Mr. Antin complied with, as long as necessity existed for filling up the vacant post of Assistant Superintendent of Police. As to Mr. Ball, I think I cannot do better than refer Your Lordship to Mr. Antin's despatch, No. 187 of the 12th October, 1875, a copy of which I have the honour to enclose, which in submitting the appointment to Your Lordship's approval details the circumstances attending it. As, however, I observe that a few months elapsed before Your Lordship was apprised of the appointment, I think it right to explain that in February, 1875, a temporary vacancy having been caused in the Registrar General's office by the removal of Mr. Parker from that office to the Magistracy, I offered the first temporary arrangement to Ball, who was described to me... Page 419
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