with by the imposition of a fine equivalent in each case to one-sixth of the officers'
The salaries for one year. Reference by the Attorney-General in his minute of 11th instant to the relation under the Magistrates Ordinance of amounts of fines to terms of imprisonment did not appear to me to have much bearing on the matter in hand, as carried out to its logical conclusion it would practically preclude the dismissal of an officer drawing a considerable salary for any offence whatever. Nor could I admit the sufficiency of the plea that was advanced on behalf of Messrs. Rahman and Sale that officers of their class in Hongkong have a very low standard of morality. The charges which had been established against them appeared to me to be both of a very grave nature to demand a serious punishment,