Colonial Despatches

On the 22nd instant I received a Telegram from Your Lordship as follows:

Offer Phillippo Puisne Judgeship in British Guiana. Salary Fifteen hundred. Ifhe he accepts he should proceed there forthwith. Wire reply.

2. To-day I transmitted by telegraph my reply as follows:

Phillippo would accept, if without prejudice to eventual Canadian Pension on failure of health. But cannot move till June on account Wife's serious illness.

3. Mr Phillippo has explained to me that he has no wish to entail upon the Canadian Government the payment of his Pension if he can obtain employment, and would therefore willingly accept the appointment offered by Your Lordship. But his health suffered seriously from the Climate of Sierra Leone and he fears the possibility of alike like effect in British Guiana. If, however, he might in that event have recourse to the Pension to which with other Officials he is entitled by the terms of Union with the Dominion, he would take the risk in the hope that he may not be compelled to retire. But on the other hand should he be obliged on accepting theJudgeship Judgeship to forego all prospective claim on Canada for a retiring allowance, he would think it most prudent to take the Pension, and the chances of employment in his profession here, or elsewhere. The Canadian Government will not be placed in a more disadvantageous position by allowing MrPhillippo's Phillippo Phillippo's claim to be complete though in abeyance, and probably Your Lordship will find no difficulty in so arranging the matter.

4. The recent serious illness of Mr Phillippo's Wife will prevent her from travelling for some Weeks; and he could not with propriety leave her in herpresent present state of health. But, I shall be glad if some little delay may be afforded on public grounds also, as it would in many respects be disadvantageous to the local government to lose the benefit of Mr Phillippo's services as Crown Law Officer before the completion of the Union of this Colony with Canada.