311
uciles
from the
their homes, they will receive higher pay than that,
4 griseus
Police Force from which they
in the
are
recruited; and that the amounet
lendered them by the Government might.
be considered a
fair equiva
leet to
hundred possido sterling fer.
If however
2.
or
arrival
one
they formed.
in value that
that the dollar fluctuated its purchasing value was contrutly diminishing, that it would cost their thirty dollate and twenty cents to
sund
1 five pounds, to their relations in Great Britain, although the local law stated that for Governement payments the dollar is considered equivalent to
and two pence, in
four shillings
which case
only twenty four dollar would be required for a draft of five
porid
pounds, then they nicest think that as they have not been treated with that fairness or consideration that they
had
3.
a ri
right to expect.
At the same.
learn that in the Australian Colonies,
which are
readily
Fince they
would
accessible
from hire,
they could obtain as Constables eight
shillings
one
and sixpence a day, or, say
hundred and
fifty pounds a
a good climats
be able to live in a
year, be able
and
Owen
A
among people who speak their language, 14 feeling of dissatisfaction unest result. In Shanghai
110 besthan.
twenty eight Sergeants and now out of forty brought from England at the of £70 each have deserted. Here I have been so far fortunate as to lose
Cost
forer
treu
only.
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