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also Assistant Magistrate, and decides cases principally connected with the Boats and Harbour in his own Department. He speaks Chinese, and is a gentleman of considerable attainments, and a contributor to the Superannuation Fund. I look upon him as an able and promising officer. If, therefore, the Registrar General's office be abolished, he will be out of government employ; and I would submit it to your Lordship to decide whether he or Mr Holdforth is to be retained.
Mr Inglis has the claim of a few months longer servitude, speaks Chinese, and is a contributor to the Superannuation Fund. Mr. Holdforth is competent to the office, and has held it for upwards of two years, but does not speak Chinese, and is not a contributor to the Fund.
Mr Formulate, the Chief Clerk in the Treasury, has been in the service since May 1845. He is an aged man, and was formerly a fousal at Ancona; was appointed to his present office by Sir John Davis, at the recommendation of Major General D'Aguilar.
Mr Power has been employed in the Surveyor General's office since September 1845, and is well spoken of by his superiors in office.
Mr. Alexander has been employed in the Supreme Court since November, 1845, and is likewise, I am informed and believe, a respectable and useful man. If it be necessary to dispense with...