CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 212

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18

19

208

Authorized

Nationality Strength

Number Number allowed Dismissed

to resign

Europeans Indians

98

22

в

341

28

9

Chinese

203

24

3

Total

642

74

18

to which the

The state of inefficiency

Police Force had been reduced in 1871 is referred to by Mr Gardiner Austin,

the late Colonial Secretary, in a letter dated 29th November 1877, which - printed by the Contagious

was

Diseases Commission page 238 (N55a) Speaking of the despatch to Lord Kimberley

in which the Governor

attributes burglaries and robberies to the abolition in 1870 of the system of

Gov

5830

2

Flogging and Branding, the late Colonial

Secretary says

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that "the wretched state

of the Police Force, at the time was the

great stumbling

14.

block"

Such then are the real

Facts of the year 1871, as compared with the official statements on which the Earl of Kimberly had to act. But even with the latter before him, it is

consented

evident that his lov

lordship

with extreme reluctance to the

branding system. In his despatch _ : N. 86 of the 20th of June 187/2, addressed to Sir Arthur Kermedy, Lord Kimberley

says:-

"I have had under my.

" consideration the Ordinance passed

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