PROMOTION BY FAVOUR.
" A. considerable amount ot sympathy," the Alexandria correspondent of The Times says, "is expressed with Commander Hammill, R.N., who, having rendered invaluable services in surveying the liver cataracts and generally in connection with the work of river transport, has now been shelved by the appointment of Lord Charles Beresford to command the Naval Brigade. It is understood that Commander Ilaniuiill has refused to act as second in command, or to succeed Lord Charles Beresford as naval aide-de-camp to Lord Wolseley. The feeling in the navy is the stronger because Captain Bedford, who organised the Nile gunboat service, has been superseded by officers stnt out lately from England. It is regretable that even in favour of an officer of undoubted ability like Lord C. Beresford the services of naval officers of equal ability and greater local experience, gained during the hardest pai* of the campaign, should have been slighted at the moment of decisive action."
Four citizens of Hamburg have offered Prince Bisniark £3000 towards the creation of an AssistantChancellorship.
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Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 61, 14 March 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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172PROMOTION BY FAVOUR. Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 61, 14 March 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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