to offer the cadets for Junior Clerkships.
By this means we should have trained Cadets as later Chinese Interpreters.
It is not at all times expedient to promote an officer to the head of a Department simply because he is a Chinese Scholar.
I have the honour to be My Lord,
Your Lordship's obedient humble Servant,
The Earl of Carnarvon.
Registration General's Office, Shanghai, 4th September, 1874
I have the honour to transmit to you to be laid before His Excellency the Governor the enclosed Scheme of Compensation for those Public Officers who are permitted to draw "Teaching allowance."
To that scheme we have appended a few regulations, which we trust will meet with His Excellency's approval.
The Honourable The Colonial Secretary