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ground that, had Mr. May been drawing the salary of a passed Cadet only, it would have been a legitimate charge, but that, as he is drawing salary for doing certain work, he ought to be competent to do that work. I may explain that Mr May is acting Assistant Registrar General in the place of Mr Mitchell-Imes, who is acting Police Magistrate.
Mr M. May very naturally urges that it is not his fault that he was sent to learn Pekinese instead of Cantonese: That he has passed in a creditable manner the required examinations; and he cannot fairly be called upon to keep up at his own expense, knowledge of a language that is not likely to be of any use to him here, as all official communications between the Governments of China and Hong Kong pass through Her Majesty's Legation at Peking or the Consuls, by whom they are translated, and the Chinese Officials of high rank who occasionally...