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you approved of the appointment of a Second Assistant

Superintendent of Poline in addition to the appointment `of

: Mr Fallifax as First Assistant Superintendent of Police

and Police Magistrate for the New Territory. No cadet in

this government was available for the posts and, on

€œmmunicating with: the government of the Straits Settle-

ments and the Federated Malay States, I was informed on

the 80th instant that there also no passed cadet with the

' requisite knowledge of Cartoneme was available. I have,

therefore, appointed Mr Wodehouse, who is in every way

qualified, to be Second Assistant Superintendent of Police.

T. On the 1st November, är #. B. 0.

Rows, unpassed cadet in the service of the Federated Malay

States, applied for transfer to this goverment, and in

view of the circumstances above detailed and especially - the creation of the six new appointments mentioned, viS : --

Registrar. General, Member of the Land Court, Registrar of

the Land Court, Assistant: Police Magistrate, and 1st and

2nd Assistant Superintendent, of Police,~ I decided to refer the matter to the government of the Federated Malag States. But in reply to my letter, the officer Administer- ing the government of the Straits Settlements' stated that

02 the Resident General of the Federated Malay States reputed

the transfer of Mr Ross to this government would be inconvenient to the public service. This attempt therefore

: to obtain the immediate services of a cadet, who had

I already spent a year in studying Chinese, was not

BUCCERstul,

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-Finally,: owing to the sudden

death or, the Bari of Donoughmore, which necessitated tho

instant" departure for England of his son Lord' Suirdale, my

to private secretary, I was forced, on the 8th instant, appoint Mr Johnston, an unpassed cadet, as my Private

Secretary,