CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 388

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good

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increased. It

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was indeed

by the Gevenor be-

fore Pleft, that one of the eldest snem-

bers

these

Colony

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the Council had told him Itat

how

Cass English speaking in the

Stan there was franty years I happened to mention this to ther Shay. Acting (olenial Seastary, who is longest-resident official that we have. The dissenter entendly from the statement. Ate consider on the improve.

the

ment

very

marked, for there is hardly

a native shop in the Primeiseensatrals

573.

375

after his arrival in the Colony. Moss-

Cry

the jargon

"English"

is confined

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out

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to servants, evany

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use it, to the power

tradesmen, and to certain of the low-

est grades. In Gast, must intelligen-

Chinaman

a

designate pt by

bary contemptuous a pithet, showing

stat they

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linger look upon it.

or English.

To the changes proposed in

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city now.

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it who speaks English, and who can

write out

Strings

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bill is lenglish, too

which did

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the second and third Resolutions d

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