Needham to Parker (Private Secretary)
Library Chambers
Temple
17th July 1865
Dear Sir
I have to thank you for your kind note & beg to say that I shall be very glad if you will obtain for me an advance of salary to meet the expense of the voyage to Vancouver Id.
Yrs faithfully
Joseph Needham

C.S. Parker Esqe
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Blackwood
Let draft be prepared to the Crown Agents, authorizing them to advance two months salary to Mr Needham at the rate of £1,200 per annum (insert the amount of his full salary whatever that may be[)].
As Mr Cardwell is absent, I will submit the question to him in the draft.
Prepare the draft telling the Govr of the advance.
TFE 19/7
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Mr Cardwell
Mr Needham, the newly appointed Judge in Vancouver Island, has represented that he has no allowance for either passage or outfit, and that he is subjected to heavy demands. I think that it would not be unreasonable under the circumstances to grant him an advance of salary. I recommend an advance equal to two months full salary, but with an explanation that in settling his pay accountManuscript image in the Colony, he can only be credited for half salary during the time of the voyage.
This is urgent as his departure is approaching. Drafts are annexed.
TFE 20 July
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Draft reply, Cardwell to Kennedy, No. 31, 29 June 1865.
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Colonial Office to Needham, 21 July 1865, authorizing the advance of "two month's salary at the full rate of £1200 per annum" but advising that "in settling your future pay account in the Colony, you can only be credited for half salary during the period of your passage."
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Colonial Office to Crown Agents, 21 July 1865, authorizing the advance of two months salary at the full rate of £1,200 per annum to Needham.
Minutes by CO staff
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On reflection I think that two month's Salary, (£200) is enough.
Submitted for Mr Cardwell's approval.
TFE 20/7
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Elliot to Needham, 2 August 1865, correcting an error with regard to his salary advance and advising that "the local Act, assigning a new and higher salary to the new Chief Justice, expressly declares that it is to commence from the date of his arrival in the colony.
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Draft reply, Cardwell to Kennedy, No. 35, 22 July 1865.
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Draft reply, Cardwell to Kennedy, No. 36, 2 August 1865.
Minutes by CO staff
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See also letter to Mr Needham annexed.
I added the last sentence of the previous letters under an error, and I think it is material to correct it at once and officially.
TFE 29 July