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depended upon if carried on in the English language - solely. After a month's hial the Emigration Officer has reported satisfactorily as to the qualifications of Kor - - Choy for interpreter to the Emigration départment. I have consequently appointed. hor Choy to that office at a Talary of £6.5. per mensem,

And I request your approval

the cicumstances.

under the

I beg to refer to my Despatch N147 dlake 6th

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October 1855, in which I called

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your attention to the enormous

numbers of voluntary Emigrants which leave this place principulty for Australia and California. We are seldom without passenger Aissels loading for,

both localities, and while the

provinces which furnish the great supplies continue in their prosent disturbed and - imsatisfactory state, the Emigration is likely to continue on a very large scale.

The number of Emigrants

who have left since the First

left

of January last, is 20,100.