CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 222

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Englishmen in practicular_

and public

Noove doubly that this man has been greatly of corruption and rothery to a great-extent, in Hongkong. This, however, can never be proved He is too actful to permit any tangible peorps of his delinquences to exist A cringer to the " powers that be", he is extremely textannical to any

happen to get in his power_ In Houghing he has brought the British name and institutions inti utter disrepute -

he may

un

One

You may sead Gover wn afte Gover

nor to Houghing, but Came will tar him with the stick with which he is tarred himself _ in

he will tar

the same manner any official with whom he

Nay

"Come in contact _ The Judge

to which who tried the libel case.

evidually

I have made reference was tarred - Caine is hospitable he entertains freely, but those who

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can see a small distance into a

millstone can

easily perceuse that his hospitality is meuly

in

a means to an end and that that end is corruption.

Surrounded by the atmosphere of a free press, such a character as shine could not-exist for any length: of time, but the press is not free- Hongkong - it is enslaved to a greater degree

than in Austria - Asch is, Caine not only exists, but he holds, Ibelieve, the hourable situation of

has held, if I mistake

St

Goveran, and

not, eve.

of public appomat ment in the island from Gaoler, upwards -

I became acquainted with the effairs of Hongkong during a residence in the Colony

To conclude, I would say, that I wish an abler pen were employed to bring this subject under your Grace's notice, that I feel that in addressing your Grace upon it.

I

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