should be
required
to undertake
whatever duties the head master
consider them most qualified
to
perform
Hong Kong
No.
1191
DESPATCH.
C O.
LIST
RECO
(REGO JAN
147
Governor.
Date.
No.
Confl
1883.
13. Dec.
Last previous Paper.
1177
Coupe 31 Jan. 844
To
Gov
$44
6846
(Subject.)
The Chinese Studies of the cadets.
Complaining of having been desired to get a report from
Eitel on the statement sent by King, and also of the "meddling interference of Downing Street" generally. He professed to have spoken to Dr Eitel, and he sends a memo received from him.
Son George
(Minutes.)
Mr Meade
Sir George Bowen has taken strange offence at Cad Darby's despatch no. 177,
but I am
found to state it may well have been
irritating
to be told to submit a strongly backed opinion
to Dr Eitel's decision.
Answer that it has always been understood
that Dr Eitel is a
great
Chinese character
Scholar, hence it was suggested to refer the point at issue
to him, his personal character of course no connexion with the degree of his scholarship, which appears from the present dispatch to have been overrated:
having of