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which he belongs hopelessly in the rear.
The interpretation in the Supreme Court is very much worse than in any other Court in the Colony, worse than in any other department.
This is worse because it ought to be so much better.
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The cases that come before the Supreme Court are more complicated. Accuracy is required and larger interests are involved and are more strenuously contested. The greatest possible precision and accuracy are required whether in the interpretation of the documentary evidence put in, or in the rendering of the testimony of witnesses examined in open Court, and there is neither the one nor the other attainable.
In rendering the Interpreter in Chinese and Portuguese can speak neither English, Portuguese nor Chinese correctly. The Chinese and Portuguese assure me as to their inability to speak these languages respectively. This inability to put together correctly a few sentences in English is palpable to everyone attending the Court.
He is an uneducated man who has picked up his knowledge of languages as it were by chance. He knows nothing beyond the left side of the Chinese Character and for translation of even the simplest document, I have to call in Chan Tai Kwong.
The Examination papers published in the Government Gazette of Saturday last...