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mysterious influence so overawed the Governor, that he actually suspended. the clerk, pending orders from home. The reference home the recepardy barked, garbled and misrepresented, resulted unexpectedly in ordene for the runstation of the clerk. Now here was a dilemma_ the man's mouth as open as ever, nor would he listen to eating a single word he had said. What was to be done? Economy being the order of the day, the office that. the clerk had occupied was abolished. This was bold play, but there was nothing else left for it. The Major-got-made Catonial Secretary forthwith, and the Clerk, who was quite a popular man among
the Chinese, was thrown destitute upon the Colony. This clerk was M William Tarrant, now and for some years past, the Editor of the Frend of China. He, my Lord, has a tale to tell
that I will not spoil by reacting, for I do hope that the day will come & soon too, when he will be allowed the opportunity of being heard _ of being plased face to face on equal terms with his wrongers, and will receive the reward he merits for having sacrificed his prospectes by denouncing venality intortion and fraud. Time wore on the major could laugh at his traducers, and his compradore became careless in his security. Mr Ano. Cairns, Editor of the Honghong Resister, obtaining the most irrefragible proof of the system of extortion practised, published and denounced. Reing as amiable and placed a man as a village schoolmaster, his words could hardly go unheeded. An investigation was talked of, and an action for libel threatenid The Major's compradive ran away.
The talismanic influence of the Major's
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Chenes name upon markets and brothels. Fr. Gro
Mysterious and potent progeniter silenced the investigation, and the libel was forgiven unsoliciteds. The Major of course got made a Colonel - for proving himalf so able a tactician. The Compradore soon returned,
a more wary if not a better man. The Colonel has since been made Lieutenant Governor on a salary of £2.250. pannum _ the birth being perfect sinecure. Since the Rujian panic, which he did much to promote he has been innocent of doing either good or harm. The last of the Compradise's schemes that came to my knowledge, was an offer he made to For pro Bowring, to purchase the Monopoly of licensing Gambling houses in Hong Kong. Report had it that a tempting offer of £₤18000. (Pounde Steding
Edinburgh
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bond Birmingham
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(Pounds Sterling) induced Sir John to refer the mutter home, adweating
its acceptance.
Soon after the permanent occupation of the Island had been decided upon, a man of the name of Holdforth was cast upon its shores Little of anything was known about him, except that he came last from Australia. He was made Sheriff and Afeistant Magistrate. The Editor of the China mail, now in Angland, can inform your Lordship regarding this man's style of doing business. The said Editor made the place two hot to hold him. Holdforth made a deal of money. Mshing to -throw-up his situation & proceed to California as super cargo of a ship, either partially or-entirely laden by himself, he applied for and obtained a year leave of absence, in order that he might draw half his salary during that period, as the custom is in such cases. The night before he sailed, he admitted over his Cups, that he had always given the party, who had procured him the situation, one fourth of his salary In the margin Your Lordship will find the name & address of a gentleman in England, who heard Holdforth make the admission. Soon after he had gone, it became known that he had absconded from Australia for horse stealing. The very man who had given him shelter, that secreted him from the officers of Justice, came up to Hongthing t was living here for some time before Nota forth's departure. This man was in bad arcumstances, and whether he followed Holdforth to China to obtain pecuniary, assistance, or not, I do not know He obtained
a very subordinate situation in Dovernment employ, and complained to a genble=
in England, (whose name Faddress your lordship will also
now
man, now in
find on the margen) of Holdforth, ingratitude.
to China as a
Our late Colonial Treasurer was a man of the name of Robert Reinacker - a Hungarian by birth _ had been a Greek Soldier, and came
gentleman' body servant : From a subordinate situation the Government office, he worked himself up to the charge of the Treasury- not through any
remarkable talent, application, or business habct that he possessed, but from the total absence of those qualiter
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