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Hayward all knowledge of the despatch A°51 of 1885, until your Lordship should have had an opportunity of considering, with fuller information than when that dispatch was written, the subject of this very important appointment.
5. It will be seen that the Judges of the Supreme Court recommend the permanent appointment as Superintendent of Captain Dempster, of the Army Pay Department, and formerly of the 28th Regiment, who filled the Office temporarily during several months in 1878, (in the absence of Mr Tonnati,) and who seems to have given great satisfaction in the manner in which he discharged its duties.
Personally, I have, of course, (in consequence of my recent arrival here,) a very slight acquaintance with Captain Dempster; but he certainly has favourably impressed the Judges and other Functionaries of the Government with a belief in his peculiar qualifications for the post in question.
I can speak as to his possessing a good address and a commanding presence - no mean elements of success in dealing with people of all races, and especially with Orientals.
He appears to have already...
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vity favourably impressed the Judges and other Functionaries of the Gremous with a belief in his peculiar_ qualifications for the post in question. I can speak us to his possessing a good address and a commanding " presence - no mean elements
8 success in dealing with people of all races, and especially with Orientals. He appears & have already
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