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as Portmaster General and Collector of Harbour Revenue, is confirmed, but that the other appointments referred to in my Despatches #24, and #25 are to remain in abeyance pending a reply to your Despatch #30 of the 28th February.
2 April. I regret that I should have overlooked the apparent necessity of replying earlier, for I had remained under the impression that the only point which I had not dealt with referred to Mr. Lister's appointment as Director of Chinese Studies, an appointment which caused promotion to the Post Office.
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This opportunity may, however, be taken of reporting to Your Lordship what I should otherwise have done in another despatch, that this Government has been enabled to obtain the gratuitous services of the Reverend Dr. Eitel - a renowned Chinese Scholar - in supervising the studies of those officers of the service who are applying themselves to learn Chinese. Classes have been formed and a curriculum adopted which, in due time, I have every reason to believe will prove of marked advantage to the public Service of the Colony.
With this reference, I would...