Enclosure / in Mr. Administrator Marsh's despatch 12. 193 of 7th_ July, 1882!
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In CO Despatch No 143 of 1879-
Re Open competition for
minor posts .
Minecte by the Acting Colonial Cerstory.
list, I should
annexed
Judging from the ammered
that the competitive
say
system had worked fairly well, and I do not think that, hitherto, it has
tended to replace Englishmen by Chinese: but I am strongly of opinion that the system needs to be carefully watched, and that, while it is eminently desirable that all officers of the Government should be more or less acquainted with _ Chinese, I should not, as I believe has been the ease in past examinations,
make