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may appointment.

Prevuris tolach Christmas I mentioned

to Eir John Stalker the then attorney Wineral ( with whom I had been for many years acquainted] that I was desirous of entering

the Colonial service as a

Chief Justice in the Gold Coast of Africa which was then vacant. Sir John Walker paid he would gladly recommend me to the post but seeing that

the Chimalt was so bad that his previous

weinemendation

of Mr. John Carr had beew followed by drath within six reouttes after arrival, he thought that having a family

as I had, it would not be adorable for me

Is apply. -

I replied to this that it was the

Smolmeent

Incolumdist Chiply that I looked to, that I could

as far as the pecumay

maire against the climate as far as plereitä

of sing family were concerned, and I was willing to pick it and having brow acchimialueed in the tropics I wasquly anxions

qelyanke

Bsecure a provision for my family. Per John then pred topperhring application which I believe he did I was however inque ce a sful, having been told at the Colonial Office that I was top. old for Employment in the tropics, and that a rule had been laid down not to appoint gentlemen of muy age, not already in the service, to judicial office in tropical coloracion-

The Cheif Justice ship of locatern Austration then fell va cant, and believing that dis Johir Halter's recommendation would avail me, 9

appled