CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875 — Page 622

much discontent-

the Community

among

who saw

a

valuable

nucleus

of future

Interpreters of the highest class, trained

at considerable expense

to the Colony, dispersed

and

diverted from

their special calling-

and I need not say

what heartburning

there was among

the

hopes of promotion

local officials whose

to the appointments

conferred

the

Cadets were thus

610

unexpectedly crushed. However regrettable

the loss of this stuff

of future Interpreters.

may be,

it is

in

a great measure

compensated by the

advantage which has accrued to the Colony

in another way, for

it cannot be denied that these Cadets

by their education

ability and

high

character, as well

as from

their

knowledge of Chinese, have proved

a

unexpectedly

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