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18
19
208
Authorized
Nationality Strength
Number Number allowed Dismissed
to resign
Europeans Indians
98
22
в
341
28
9
Chinese
203
24
3
Total
642
74
18
to which the
The state of inefficiency
Police Force had been reduced in 1871 is referred to by Mr Gardiner Austin,
the late Colonial Secretary, in a letter dated 29th November 1877, which - printed by the Contagious
was
Diseases Commission page 238 (N55a) Speaking of the despatch to Lord Kimberley
in which the Governor
attributes burglaries and robberies to the abolition in 1870 of the system of
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Flogging and Branding, the late Colonial
Secretary says
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that "the wretched state
of the Police Force, at the time was the
great stumbling
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block"
Such then are the real
Facts of the year 1871, as compared with the official statements on which the Earl of Kimberly had to act. But even with the latter before him, it is
consented
evident that his lov
lordship
with extreme reluctance to the
branding system. In his despatch _ : N. 86 of the 20th of June 187/2, addressed to Sir Arthur Kermedy, Lord Kimberley
says:-
"I have had under my.
" consideration the Ordinance passed