and also to the Acting Registrar General instruction, to reprimand Mr Orby, severely for conniving at the irregularity
3. On the 27th March, 1886, the Assistant Military Secretary reported that the Senior Commissariat Officer had complained that Mr Orby, who was Inspector of Markets and of all cattle slaughtered for consumption, was interested in certain meat contracts, and the Government was requested to give instructions that Mr Orby should be prohibited from any interference with contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Military for the supply of Meat for the use of the troops.
4. This matter was very carefully gone into, and Mr Orby requested to send in, for the consideration of the Governor in Council, written answers to the following charges formulated against him.
"That being employed by the Government as Inspector of Markets,
"you have, as appears by your own admission, interested yourself in a contract for the supply of meat to the Military Authorities by lending One thousand dollars on a legally witnessed promissory note at 20% per annum interest to a Chinese named Mun On who had undertaken a subcontract to supply meat to the contractors with the Military Authorities for the supply of meat;
"That you, being then employed by the Government of Hongkong as Inspector of Markets, did on or about the 5th day of March last offer yourself as security for one Mun On who had tendered for the supply of beef to the Military.
"Further, that on the occasion of disputes arising between the sub-contractor Mun On and a Juckeera, a partner of the Contractors, you being Inspector of Markets as aforesaid, did improperly and unwarrantably interfere between the