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the misconduct of the Turnkeys in the Hong Kong Gaol, and in reply to his suggestion that Turnkeys salaries of £100 a year each, might be obtained from England.
Your Lordship points out the objections to this plan, and instructs me to consider the expediency of getting two trained Warders from the Home service, at salaries of £150 a year each, with strict European supervision.
I am enabled to reply to Your Lordship's Despatch without delay, as I had already obtained and considered the necessary information on the subject, and decided, as a provisional measure, on the very course Your Lordship indicates.
From the enclosed copies of letters from the Acting Superintendent of the Prison recommending the dismissal of certain European Turnkeys who had been guilty of drunkenness in the Gaol and beating prisoners, and my agreeing to this recommendation and dismissing another Turnkey who...