CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5] — Page 249

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16.

Malay (if not bindurtomi also) at a

£400 a year (I think),

pay of only £400 a

crime went undetected;

unfurnished, and he

that

a.

price

AV do

criminal

so dreaded

on his head, and

had he chom to abuse his power,

there is

Mo

limit to the wealth he

might have acquired, but, finding

could not support

his

D

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Interpreter. Since he has ceased to

hold

any Office he is the

17

person most ofter choom as Arbitrator or referee by

chosen

respectable- Chinwe having disprites and

I have

Valtr

Anown his decisions

appealed from or himself complained

agarist

he

family, he left

This position of certain affluence (if he

was

The villain he is said to have been) because the Goverment would) not raise his salary, and during my long profesional experience here he has always been ready to work day and) night as a translator and interpreter for the fixed scale of fees allowed to a sworn

in

respect of them, and he has of bringing

frequently have the me

an Lao

offenders to pristice by the immense Knowledge of the Chinese character and habits that he popepes. I believe that a man in his position, if he

were a

villain, could and would have

wich

away

aw immeu e

gone -fortune, mistead

of staying where his charader had be

maligned.

Murrow's

As to Paragraph 10, Mr Munnos

EX

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