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Officer Administering the Government to Chief Justice.

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at the bar and

local Knowledge and experience render

competent person to fill the appointment

eve in asking for it,

and justify

I have written directly to your Excellmey to avoid the delay of transmission through | the Secretariat and in the hope that, if

you do not think fit to take action on this application yourself because of your appreaching departure from the Colony,

Council and

will lay it before your You forward it with such observations

do

you

-way think requisite or proper to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies for his convicteration,

I have c

(Signed) Jno. J. Francis

Sir,

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Government House,

Hongkong, 27th February, 1885.

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I have the honour to

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inform you that Mr. O'Malley has. applied for leave of absence for period of 18 mon the and has suggested that Mr (lekroyd the Registrar of the Supreme Court should be appointed to replace him

as o

eAttorney General during his_

absence.

2.

There is also

an

application which was addressed to Sir George Bowen in December

last