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There was a very hot spell one midsummer while I was Police Commissioner, and most of each night I spent walking through the tenement-house districts and visiting police stations to see what was being done. It was a tragic week. We did everything possible to alleviate the suffering. Much of it was heartbreaking, especially the gasping misery of the little children and of the worn-out mothers.
She was the niece of a High Commissioner, daughter of a Secretary of Imperial Government, at Cape Town, who wrote K.C.M.G. after his name. "Silber speaks the truth. Not a girl here is a patch on the shoes of Lynette Mildare.
Clancey, read it through, smiled, and passed it back. "I think that settles it," he remarked, "and with your kind permission I will now depart." Nodding farewell to the Assistant Commissioner, Clancey withdrew by the private exit opposite to the one which led into the room where Bobby was miserably awaiting his fate. "Show Mr.
Telegrams were sent to the High Commissioner and to the Premier of Cape Colony informing them that owing to the starting of Dr.
As a side-line and sheerly to secure her money he carried off John Millinborn's heiress with the object of forcing her into a marriage." The commissioner chewed the end of his cigar. "This is a State matter and one on which I must consult the Home Office. You tell me that the Foreign Office believe your story of course I do, too," he added quickly, "though it sounds wildly improbable. Wait here."
The following extract from another letter, also addressed to his Honour the Superintendent, shews the opinions and feelings of the writer, a Magistrate of the Colony, and a Commissioner of Crown Lands, in the Geelong district.
Kerrigan was referring to a man whom he had helped make county clerk, and who had turned on him when he asked for return favors and his support for the office of commissioner of highways. Morrissey had become a prominent politician. "That's very easy to say," replied Gilgan, irritably, "but it's not true of me. Ask any man in my district. Ask the men who know me.
These extraordinary powers were conferred upon a distinguished politician in the name of the young Queen Victoria and during her pleasure. The usual and formal language of the commission, 'especial trust and confidence in the courage, prudence, and loyalty' of the commissioner, has in this case deep meaning; for courage, prudence, and loyalty were all needed, and were all to be put to the test.
I have been appointed a commissioner by the state of Mississippi to go down to North Carolina to get your state to secede. ... I said to him, 'I did not know you had resigned. He answered, 'Oh, no! I have not resigned. 'Then, I replied, 'I suppose you resign in the morning. 'No, he answered, 'I do not intend to resign, for Mr.
With Kléber's death, Egypt was lost for France. Menou, who succeeded him, was very far beneath such a task. The English offered to make good the convention of El Arish, but Menou refused, and England prepared for an invasion, after attempting vainly to co-operate with the Turks. Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who had been appointed as British commissioner, landed with the English army alone at Abukir.
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