(the amount of Mt. Marques Salary)
Effected...
Your Seidship will perceive by + John the latter part of the before. Despatch that Sid named.
Davis states. It will be necessary to provide an Interpreter to (Room adjoining Mt. Marques) when the appointment may offer, though Spear & Co. consider it doubtful whether much time will elapse before an efficient person can be found.
We are now left with only one European Interpreter of Chinese. (Mr. Caldwell, whose duties will necessarily be much increased).
3. The letter from the Chief Justice of the 30th of July last, enclosing correspondence from Mr. Way the Registrar, Mr. Hillier Magistrate, and Mr. Caldwell the Interpreter to the Supreme Court, who is also an assistant to the Superintendent of Police, shew that the necessity anticipated by Mr. Davis had arisen. I was absent at the time visiting the Consular Courts, and the letter Colonial Secretary: 4th July explains the arrangement made by order of the Lieutenant-Governor for conducting the duties of Chinese Translator to the Supreme Court, during my absence. The matter was brought to my notice on my return to the Colony, and I directed the Registrar of Supreme Court to name a person suitable for the post.