CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4] — Page 329

Straits Settlements, and asking whether

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respectively 5 years and 3 months,

years

and 3 months service

joint application. I

I desire to add to that number and to

and 3 years

here

take part in a

and their salaries and

allowances

amount to $3060 and

$2340 per annum. They

are

both

have replied in the negative.

I take this opportunity of informing

Your Lordship that I could easily

dispense with the

services of two of

the Cadets already in the Government

Service of Hongkong, and to ask Your

Lordship whether it would not be

possible to promote them to the

Straits Settlements instead of

sending to that Colony two new

Cadets.

The gentlemen I refer to are Messrs

Brewin

and Radeley. They have

respectively

good officers, and well grounded in

Chinese, especially Mr Brewin.

If Your Lordship should be able

to meet my suggestion there would

still be left here 3 cadets, viz,

Messrs

Sercombe Smith, A.M. Thomson and

I. J. F. Buckle who are qualifying

for the higher offices of the Service,

and who give every promise of

being able to fill them satisfactorily

later on.

If provision