CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896 — Page 512

different. As regards leave claims, since he had had over 17 years' service without leave. But as Mr. Bramstin said in minute

it was

"an inconvenient precedent."

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I do not think it is altogether to the advantage of the Public Service to give facilities to all sorts of officers who immediately get called to the Bar, clamour for legal appointments, for which the fact of getting called hardly forms a sufficient qualification; the mere fact of being called does not qualify them. E.g. M. Göttlich, Deputy Registrar at the Straits, W. Sett, Deputy Registrar at Hongkong, & perhaps Mikyshe, Registrar at Hongkong, may be industrious men, but are hardly of the stamp largely needed. Spreading in to make real lawyers. Yet the fact of their getting called to the Bar gave them their present posts.

? Refer And Jones appli ?Inform M. Jones that the government will be asked whether the extension he asks for could be granted without expense or inconvenience to the public service, & add that his desire to get called to the Bar could not be admitted as a reason for extending his leave sufficiently. For if the gov. should report that this leave could not conveniently be spared, that in a

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The Right Hon:

Dee Barks.

212 Feb 4 1896

Joseph Chamberlain

Secretary of State for the Colonies

My Lord,

As the time is rapidly approaching when my 12 month's leave granted by the Government of Hong Kong will expire, I have the honour to apply for an extension of six month's leave from the 21st July next; I do so with considerable degree of anxiety, considering the hopes that I have entertained for years and under the stimulus of which I obtained the acting appointment of First Clerk to the Magistracy at Hong Kong in 1894, that is, of becoming a member of the English Bar, so largely dependent upon your wise decision.

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