Gentlemen,
Al pad
Mr Kyshe to Crown Agents.
C.O.
32826
Rec'd 135
Rec 22 SEP 04
19 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, W.
15th September 1904.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter P/H.Kong-Straits-Mauritius of the 10th instant,
571–572 fixing the rates of the pensions granted to me, and to enquire how these amounts have been arrived at, calculated at the full age of 55 at which I understood from the words
7
"so favourable treatment in the Under Secretary of State's letter No. 17218/04 of the 18th May last, my pensions would be granted me.
2. I joined the Colonial Service in Mauritius on the 21st February 1871, on receiving an appointment in the then Census Department, joining thereafter the Procureur and Advocate General's Department at the expressed wish of the Procureur General, Mr Colin, on the 3rd August 1871, in the capacity of a Paid Volunteer, i.e. drawing fees. A memo: left by Mr Colin in his office, records his sense of the services rendered to him by his staff and in which my name appears.
3.
Subsequently I held various acting appointments but some time in 1872 I was informed in consequence of instructions from the then Secretary of State, with a view to economy I believe, that no one was to be taken into the service of Mauritius who had not passed the local entrance examination.
4.
I was then duly selected and passed the examination together with Mr Poirier, also of the Procureur General's Office.
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5.
Gentlemen,
Al pad
Mr Kyshe to Crown Agents.
C.O.
32826
Rec2
135
Rer 22 SEP 04
19 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, W.
15th September 1904.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter P/H.Kong-Straits-Mauritius of the 10th instant,
571–572 fixing the rates of the pensions granted to me, and to en- quire how these amounts have been arrived at, calculated at the full age of 55 at which I understood from the words
7
"so favourable treatment in the Under Secretary of State's letter No. 17218/04 of the 18th May last, my pensions would be granted me.
2. I joined the Colonial Service in Mauritius on the 21st February 1871, on receiving an appointment in the then Census Department, joining thereafter the Procureur and Advocate General's Department at the expressed wish of the Procureur General, Mr Colin, on the 3rd August 1871, in the capacity of a Paid Volunteer, i.e. drawing fees. A memo: left by Mr Colin in his office, records his sense of the services rendered to him by his staff and in which my name appears.
3.
Subsequently I held various acting appointments but some time in 1872 I was informed in consequence of in- structions from the then Secretary of State, with a view to economy I believe, that no one was to be taken into the ser- vice of Mauritius who had not passed the local entrance ex- amination.
4.
I was then duly selected and passed the examination together with Mr Poirier, also of the Procureur General's Office.
-1-
5.
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