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Council was of opinion that the charges made against your

petitioner had been proved, and that His Excellency would

therefore recommend that your petitioner be dismissed from

the service of the Government.

11.

Your petitioner verily believes that at the time of the

happening of the alleged offences by your petitioner against the Colonial Regulations the fact of your petitioner's interest in the Hongkong Butchery was well known to all the principal residents in the Colony, but it was never then suggested to your petitioner by any person, nor did it occur to him, that he was acting incorrectly in being so interested.

12.

Your petitioner has never at any time during the long

period of his service with the Government of the Colony so

acted as to bring his private interests into real or apparent conflict with his public duties, nor as he done any thing what so ever which might prejudicially influence him in the

discharge of his duties.

13. Your petitioner has atained the age of 51 years and were he to continue to remain in the service of the Government until

the month of August 1914 he would then be entitled to retire from such service on a pension of $1122 per annum or £205. 14

at 3s, 8d to the dollar.

14.

If the recommendation of His Excellency the Governor that your petitioner be dismissed from the said service be approved by your Lordship, and if in consequence thereof no pension is granted to your petitioner, he will be unable to obtain remunerative employment in the Colony, or elsewhere.

15. Your petitioner humbly submits that the pay of a servant of the Government of this Colony is regulated with regard to the fact that upon the termination of such service he will become entitled to a pension; and your petitioner further