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in addition to having several new hands to train, my superintending and training staff was halved. About the same time, Mr Botelho, the 1st clerk, died.
13. This officer, the last of the old hands, who had com- -pleted 38 years in the Harbour Department, had been ailing for some time, and was getting past his work, so that, after his death, certain small irregularities, due, I am sure, to loss of memory and ill health on his part, came to light. These were magnified and made the most of, with considerable satisfaction, by the Chi- -nese clerks, especially Mr Chan Pui, who strove to provė dishones- -ty against Mr Botelho. On enquiry, I found that vouchers and receipts for certain small sums of money, which had admittedly been paid by him, were missing, together with a larger sum of money which was known to have been in his possession the day he went to hospital; while certain other bills-- amounting, so far as my men- -ory serves me, to about $30, were stated not to have been paid i by him. The absence of the receipts for the former bills, the eagerness displayed by the Chinese to blacken the dead man's char- -acter, and the fact that the papers in his desk were found in dis- -order, (Mr Botelho was one of the most orderly and methodical men I ever knew), combined to make me give little credit to the allega- -tions of dishonesty against a man of whose strict probity an ex- -perience of ten years had convinced m0.. No evidence, however, was forthcoming to inculpate anyone else, and the suns alleged to be missing were paid, under protest, by Mr Botelho's widow.
14. Sir Henry May made much capital out of this incident, which, he declared reflected upon the honesty of the Portuguese clerks, and went far towards proving the superiority of Chinese. The fact that no hint of irregularities on the part of Mr Botelho was ever given by the Chinese until the former was dead, and there- -fore unable to defend himself, does not affear to have been consi- -dered.
15. I have already alluded to the manner in which the cle- -rical establishment of the Harbour Department was depleted of its efficient members and their places filled by Chinese upon whom no reliance could be placed. More especially was this exemplified in the appointment of Mr Chan Fui as responsible accountant and senior
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