Matters in question in the colony which he has, with a
heightened sense of
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came before he left England to impress upon him
the absolute necessity of his becoming a good
Chinese Scholar if with a view to
improving
Some ulterior point viz
virtues & bad treatment
of
the Chinese; and
a
regards
the relation
of
cadetships
to interpretation
he
appears
to me to be
owing
Hong Kong higher posts were
filled by
Why
Que
good interpreters wanted?
Because English judges & magistrates have not in past time been able to discover in their speak & understand Chinese sufficiently well. By training up future magistrates with as perfect a knowledge as possible of the language the necessity for high class interpreters
as
will become obviated. Yet to this course
2
of "Eitel" objects a complaint that we
send out men who wish to be more
than
has
interpreters. In Lockhart it seems had the audacity to "frankly" "state" that
he does not aim at becoming
an interpreter
but at rising
In other words before
to higher posts in the Civil
Service:
I took
good
he was
to
Get m.
m. (n
the
Civil Service I told him that the
men
more and more to be
Conversant
Likely who were thoroughly
with the native language.
I am now revising
the Hong Kong regulations
but do not propose to conform them to British C.P.L
News
Page 21. Sec
Sir D. P. Hennessy delays the transmission of the amended pension minute for upwards of 2 years
and then encumbers it with other questions which would have been best dealt with
separately
1. The practice appears to have arisen in Hong Kong of giving Chinese public servants gratuities, at the rate of one month's pay for each year
Dec.