Generalship.
give a final
twelve
days
I sent for him today to
answer as
he had had
to consider the question,
and I at once embodied in a
telegram
and
what he said, which was that, whilst
most grateful to Your Lordship and most anxious to do any duty whatever
be imposed
that
may
on him, he
would himself personally far prefer
the arrangement
no
I recommended in
my despatch No. 29 of the 4th of
April, 1881.
3.
In
my despatch No. 28
of the 4th of April, 1881, I reported to Your Lordship that he had declined
the Registrar Generalship on the ground
that it was not congenial to him. I enclose for Your Lordship's information
his letter to me of the 2nd of April, 1881,
in which, amongst other objections to
the office he says:-
4.
"There is, first, the Contagious
Diseases Ordinance matter, which is
very distasteful to me.
On the face of that
statement, I am confident Your Lordship would not feel disposed to press the appointment upon him, as the public interests would certainly suffer, whilst he himself would be forced
into a false position.
5.
Furthermore I found that
he could not interpret nor read nor
write
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Generalship.
give a final
twelve
days
I sent for him today to
dnswer as
he had had
to consider the question,
and I at once embodied in a
embodied in a telegram
jand
what he said, which was that, whilst
most grateful to Your Lordship and most anxious to do any deity whatever
be imposed
that
may
on him, he
would himself personally far prefer
the arr
arrangement
no
I recommended in
my despatch me 29 of the 4th of
April, 1881.
3.
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In
my despatch 2.28
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of the 4th of April, 1881, I reported to Your Lordship that he had declined
the Registrar Generalship on the ground
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that it was not congenial to him. I_ enclose for Your Lordship's information of the 2nd of April, 1881,
his letter to me
other objections to
in which, amongst other
the office he says:-
4.
"There is, first, the Contagions
Diseases Ordinance matter, which is
vary distasteful to me?
on the face of that
statement, I am confident Your Lordship would not feel disposed to press the appointment repon him, as the public interests would certainly suffer,: whilst he himself would be forced : into a false position.
5.
Furthermore I found that
he could not interpret nor read nor
write
Fune
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