CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 38

" cannot give sufficient time to the study of the language, and secondly

" that such progress in the

language

as will fit a

a man

to

" become an Interpreter cannot be

expected unless he can devote

"the whole of his time to the

"

study of the Chinese language.

that soon

I am to remind

you after the present Governor's

arrival at the end of April, and

the first occasion on

which

you mentioned

on

saw His Excellency, you that not one of the few students who attended four times

made, in the

times a month had

year 1876, the progress

that had been expected, and

you

expressed a wish to

were

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resign; whereupon

requested to continue

your

You

operations as usual until the Governor could decide what should be done.

The Governor desires

me to add that the negative

result of the

experiment which

has been tried in this matter, is

in no

degree owing to any

on

want.

any

your part, or to

on the part of

of real lack of industry

the Officers who had the advantage of receiving your instruction four mornings

in each

month, but to such obvious

sources of failure

as Mr Austin's

minute indicates, and which