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short illness.
2.
habits and
unknown!
...
Though a recluse in his
therefore socially
beyond a very
almost
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circle, his modest and unassuming
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manner attracted all who approached
him, while his sterking integrity and his devotion to duty in the
various
offices held by him here, had
gained for him the universal respect
all classes and races
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of all
3.
The
f population.
By the Government and
by myself his loss will be the more
severely felt
inasmuch as he combined:
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knowledge of,
Chinese and
with, the
and sympathy with,
Portuguese inhabitants of
the Colony, to an extent which is, in
no one who
my opinion, equalled by survives him, and which
no euccessor
ich at least for
can hope to approach
years
4.
to come.
vacancy,
do the
As regards I propos to give the
acting appointment to Mr Lister, the Treasurer and Postmaster
on
General,
his arrival in this Colony,
expected
the work
a week hence, conducting.
myself in the meantime
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Knowledge
with