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which that gentleman from the satisfaction
he has given his clients, has retained, and
which doubtless is a cause of annoy...
MK Storey;-
It is time that an Architect did come to this Colony under the favorable answer, but he did so as a brother of long standing, a long resident here, but he did not meet with much success: as it appears those having buildings to erect preferred placing their interest in the hands of a person of experience... rather than the one, who however great his talent may have been for work at home, was totally unacquainted with the requirements of this exceptional Colony.
The gentleman in question is now at Shanghai doing a very extensive and lucrative business in partnership with an Architect whose former partner died.
I might say that I have been engaged by the barrister, the brother of the gentleman who is said by Storey to have been driven, as it were, out of the Colony by the undue competition of the C.M.; why he did not select Storey is best known to himself.
Cess... on more than one occasion, as Arbitrator.
As regards that portion of the Para (4) which states that in several instances lately, by the luc... attending their private practice, they (the Clerks of banks) have been enabled to resign their appointments, by which inconvenience and great expense have been thrown on... the Imperial foot to... place them; this is a reckless statement at variance with the fact: the only Clerk who has resigned his appointment at Hong Kong since...
Leg... it