CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7] — Page 235

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The 2nd Assistant (whose salary was $50 a month) having resigned in December last in order to take up more remunerative employment in a mercantile Firm, Mr J.B. Eça da Silva, a Clerk in the Public Works Department, was in the beginning of January appointed to his place with an increase of $20 a month in salary, in view of the fact that he had been examined by the Director of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, and pronounced to possess sufficient knowledge of Telegraphy to assist in working the direct cable which, as Your Lordship is aware, now connects the Observatory with the town of Victoria. On the 10th of February

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232 3 Observatory:- 2. The 2nd Assistant (whose salary was $50 a month) having resigned in December last in order to take up more remunerative employment in a mercantile Firm, Mr J.B. Eça da Silva, a Clerk in the Public Works Department, was in the beginning of January appointed to his place with an increase of $20 a month in salary, in view of the fact that he had been examined by the Director of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, and pronounced to possess sufficient knowledge of Telegraphy to assist in working the direct cable which, as Your Lordship is aware, now connects the Observatory with the town of Victoria. On the 10th of February 3. the Director of the Observatory wrote

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உ 232 3 Observatory:- 2. The 2nd Assistant (whose salary was $50 a having resigned in month) December last in order to take up more remunerative employment in a mercantile Firm, Mr J.B. Eça da Silva, a Clerk in the Public Works Department, was in the beginning of January appointed his place with of $20 in an increase $20 a month in salary, in in view of the fact that he had been examined by the Director of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, and pronounced to possess sufficient knowledge of Telegraphy to assist in working the direct cable d which, as at Kowloon Your Lordship is aware, now connects the Observatory with the town of Victoria. On the 10th of February 3. the Dircator of the Observatory wrote

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Observatory:-

The 2nd Assistant (whose

salary

was $50 a

having resigned in

month)

December last in order

to take

remunerative employment

in a mercantile Firm, Mr J.B. Eça da Silva, a Clerk in the Public Works Department, was in the beginning of January appointed his place with of $20

an increase

$20 a month in

salary,

in view of the fact that he had been examined by the Director of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, and pronounced to possess sufficient knowledge of Telegraphy to assist in working the direct cable

which, as

at Kowloon

Your Lordship is aware, now connects the Observatory with the town of Victoria. On the 10th of February

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