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The Company for the sum of £850 damages and succeeded after much delay and considerable expense in getting him to obtain a writ on Christmas Eve, I accompanying him to the Law Courts for the purpose.
The Company had by this time closed their offices in London and gone to New York, at which place the writ had to be served.
Pending the serving of the writ I had made application for an appointment in Nigeria, and this was given me at a salary of £480 per annum with a Bonus of Two Pounds per month for good conduct (which incidentally I received). I asked my solicitor whether I should be in order in accepting this post, pointing out that it would be possible if he cabled me the date fixed for the hearing of the case to obtain three months leave of absence to attend, and I was assured by him that this course would be quite in order.
I proceeded to Nigeria and remained there a very considerable time, until invalided with Rheumatism on Malaria; and I may mention that even to the day of leaving I was not absent from my duty for a single hour. I left there on a Sunday.
On my return to England, I was for some months an inmate of Greenwich Hospital, and as soon as I was able to leave this Institution, I hastened to the Solicitor from whom
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the Company for the sum of £850 damages and succeeeded after
much delay and considerable expense in getting him to obtain
a writ on Christmas Eve, I acoompnying him to the Law Courts
for the purpose.
The Company had by this time closed their offices
in London and gone to New York, at which place the writ had to
be served.
Pending the serving of the writ I had made application
for an appointment in Nigeria, and this was given me at a
salary of £480 per annum with a Bonus of Two Pounds per month
for good conduct( which incidentally I received). I asked
my solicitor whether I should be in order in accepting this
post, pointing out that it would be possible if he cabled ne
the date fixed for the hearing of the care to obtain three
months leave of absence to attend, and I was assured by him
that this course would be quite in order.
I proceeded to igeria and remained there a very con-
siderable time, until invalided with Rheumatism on Melaria;
and I may mention that even to the day o leaving I was not
absent from my duty for a single hour. I left there on a
Sunday.
On my return to England, I was for some months an
inmate of Greenwich Hospital, and as soon as I was able to
leave this Institution, I hastened to the Solicitor from whom
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