and the Executive Council. The
finding in Mr. Caldwell's case was
effective that there had been
to the
long and intimate
connection
between Mr. Caldwell and a man
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very great and peculiar services to the Government
on many
previous occasions and had received various high testimonies to his great zeal and usefulness.-
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named Ma Chow Wong
would confederate of Pirates - as to render the former unfit to continue in the Public Service and also that his treatment of a brother officer Mr. May - "had been dishonorable.
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Mr. Caldwell's conduct in those matters had previously been enquired into but with different result - and it is certain that he had rendered
a
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I have since made it a point to read the Minutes
of Inquiry and also the record of Sir Hercules Robinson, No. 220 of 16th December (1861)
18 July 1886, drumming up the result of the
investigation.
As to the second
part of the finding viz. that Mr. Caldwell deserved "discipline" for dishonorable conduct towards Mr.
May I am not personally