Wind; and do not enable me to hold out the early prospect of well-educated and competent interpreters fit for situations of the kind contemplated by your-
While I desire to thank the Government for the £250 annual payment just received, I feel it right to mention that I labour under considerable educational difficulties in sustaining my staff of European tutors through the demands of the Government Chaplaincies in the Colony. The absence of Chaplains through furlough, death, or other reasons well known to your Excellency has deprived the College of two most efficient tutors, and it has been difficult to supply their place. Mr. C. Odell, who has for the last two years sustained the pastoral duties both of the Garrison and of the Colonial Chaplaincies, is the second case of my loss of a gentleman's services from the College from this cause.
After having spent money on a private friend's outfit and passage from England, I have lost his services (on his appointment as permanent Military Chaplain above a year ago) at a period of their greatest efficiency, and out of the £250 just received from Government, I have to remit to England £200 for the outfit and passage of his expected successor. I feel grateful to the Government for their Grant and as long as they think it right to continue it, I shall do my best to render it promotive of the cause of Anglo-Chinese education. But I wish at the same time to remind your Excellency that the pecuniary benefaction of the Government has been less than might...
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Wind; and do not enable me to hold out
the early prospect of well educated and Competent interpreters fit for sitriations
of r
the Kind Contemplated by your-
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Government for
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payment just received, I feel it right
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: through the demands of the Government Chaplaincies in the Colony. The absence of Chaplains through furlough, death, or other reasons
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your Excellency.
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of the Colonial Chaplaincies.-
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Gentleman's
services from the College from this cause
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might
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