I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 81
of the
7th June enclosing a letter from
Chief Justice Begbie, in which
he applies for promotion to a more lucrative appointment in another
Colony, and suggests that his claims might be considered in connection
with the Chief Justiceship
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of the Straits Settlements which he is
informed about to become vacant.
I have to request you to infrom
Mr. Begbie, in that I will not fail
to make a note of his application, but that I have no knowledge of any
intention, on the part of the Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements
to retire from his present office.