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stated in the same letter) that in the event of such failure
such the period during which have acted as Police Magistrate Hongkong will not be allowed to count as pensionable service, but humbly ask your Lordship to reconsider your decision In the following
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reasons
By a letter from the
Colonial Office addressed to
myself and dated May 17th 1892 it was suggested to me that I might devote portion of my leave to
studying Chinese, a Professor of Chinese at King's College.
Accordingly applied to Douglas, but as he could only speak the Mandarin dialect and not the Cantonese, he was
obviously of no assistance to me. Thereupon entered into correspondence
with various missionaries who one and all expressed their opinion that it was a hopeless task to attempt to learn Chinese in England.