of the emoluments of the Indian Police.
With reference to paragraph 3 of your despatch under reply, I regret that I did not gather from your despatch No. 51 of the 10th March that it was your wish that I should communicate on the subject of the pay of the Indian Police with the Government of the Straits Settlements.
The General Officer Commanding in this Colony placed himself in communication with me, as instructed by the War Office, and, as I stated in paragraph 5 of my despatch under reference, it was with his advice, as well as that of the other members of the Executive Council, after careful comparison of the position of the Indian Police with that of their fellow-countrymen in military employ in this Colony, that...