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month's pay each
$175 in all.
48.
I have called for, but also not yet received from the Captain Superintendent of Police a report on services in saving life rendered by persons not in the Government Service. I have been informed, however, that Mr. A. Rodger, Manager of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company's Sugar Works at East Point, together with the employees from those works succoured many Chinese from junks wrecked in the vicinity and that a particularly gallant rescue was carried out by Mr. H. S. Bevan, an employee of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Company, Storekeepers who sprang into the harbour from Blake Pier and brought a drowning Chinese safely to shore.
But whilst I am at present only able to mention these two gentlemen in particular, I am pleased to state that wherever assistance was needed and was possible it was rendered by Europeans and in many cases also by Chinese, with an alacrity and a disdain for the possible consequences which were admirable.
pressions of sympathy.
49.
Foremost among the expressions of condolence which have gratified the Colony in its time of trouble was His Majesty's gracious and sympathetic message which