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communicate with the bulk of the population. The Colony - including Kowloon - may be said to contain at present, in round numbers, 100,000 inhabitants, and of these nearly 98,500 are Chinese.
The population, alas, is likely to increase largely, and with it will be multiplied the work falling on the Judicial and magisterial Courts and the several branches of the Administrative machine that come into contact, as all do more or less, with the lower native classes.
The subject has, I find, frequently attracted the attention of Her Majesty's Government, and it was considered of such importance by Lord John Russell when Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1855, that His Lordship laid it down as a rule that the application for an increase of Salary in the Civil Service of ...