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to possess University qualifications

In sending coffy of the corespondence to

gavana, ask for his opinion on the point

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"The ledars".

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Gloucestershire.

1812

The Most Honourable

"January 1895.

The Marquess of Ripon K. G.

Secretary of State for the Colonies.

May it please Your lordship,

to Hong Kong,

"Being about to retur whence it may not be so

convenient to approach

Your Lordship, I

Lordship

praying

take this present opportunity of laying my Petition before your

that

an Orders may be rescinded, that bears very hardly upon me personally, essived

Cordship's predecessors.

lov

ome

g

of Your I have

any durich references at hand, but I believe it was issued by stis Lordship, the Earl of Kimberley in 1850

1881, to the effect that, "For the fracture the Heat Master lictona (Queen's) College

q

must be a fraduate of some University?"

I will first point out what I truly be. lieve to be the cause of

that order, and

then shew how it bears upon me

ally.

person-

When the late Or Stewart was Head-

Master

に

J

the Government Central School

now Queen's College) the late M. Falconer

(my predecessor) was his Second. I believe

nothing could be said

against the late Mr.

Falconer, as far as his scholarly attarri -

ment