In fact at the present moment out of 20 Chiefships
of a department,
or like Offices, 12 are held on acting appointments,
and of the remaining 8 two are likely to be soon invalided.
The Harbour master's department alone has had no
less than five Heads during the year - Messrs Newman,
Gunthorpe, Harris, Bromsett, Inglis, and d'Agilis.
During 6 months of the year Mr Alexander, Registrar
of the Supreme Court, presided most ably at the Police Magistracy.
I am bound to say on the subject of matériel of Police that our Force shows
no improvement during the past year - nevertheless its duties as a preventive body
are tolerably conducted. The question is one which has baffled me for years past, but I do not despair yet of seeing something in the form of a Constabulary more creditable to the Colony.