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qualifications for the post of Police Magistrate, good temper, patience, a sound knowledge of his profession as an English barrister, and a thorough acquaintance with the customs and real feelings of the inhabitants of the Colony. He is not equalled by any gentleman that has sat on the Magistrate's bench since my arrival in the Colony.
H. Knowing his fitness for office he was one of the two Gentlemen whose names I submitted to Sir Michael St. John Melville for the permanent post of Police Magistrate
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in my despatch No. 30 of the 20th of April was not unmindful Agg 1049. In doing so, I was not unmindful of what the Secretary of State, Mr Labouchere wrote to one of my predecessors, Sir John Bowring in his dispatch No. 59 of the 29th of July 1856. "If you should be able to select from the Chinese inhabitants persons deserving of confidence whom you may think fit to hold this (the Magistracy) or any other administrative Office, I should be willing to assent to such appointments.
5. During the last quarter of a century great changes have taken place in the