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this Government, with the Executive Council, with Mr. Justice Russell, Mr. Stewart, and the other Members of the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service", and with all other competent
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The Board of Examiners performs gratuitously for this Colony duties analogous to those performed by the Civil Service Commission and its Examiners
in England. This Board (as I am informed) was originally appointed during the administration of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy ? It now consists of the following gentlemen...
1. D. Chalmers, one of the most learned Chinese Scholars now living (Chairman)
2. The Honourable Mr Justice Russell, Judge of the Supreme Court.
3. The Honourable F. Stewart - Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese
4. The Honourable J. Lister - Colonial Treasurer
5. Mr. Wongshing. A Chinese gentleman of high position and character.
6. Mr. Lockhart. Assistant Colonial Secretary, (Honorary Secretary)
* See despatch to Colonial Office No: 141 of date: 13th 1875
Andyer in this community, I had come to the conclusion that it was absolutely necessary for the Queen's Service that one or more of the Hongkong Cadets should be able to understand and speak the Chinese language as spoken by the educated and official classes in China (popularly called the Mandarin dialect), and not only the local tunti, or Cantonese patois. To attain this object, I stated that it was my intention, with the advice aforesaid,