CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7] — Page 271

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The vacancy thus created enables me to deal finally with the important question of the staff of Interpreters for the Supreme Court.

I need not now refer to the discreditable state in which I found the general system of Interpretation in this colony. My despatch No. 109 of the 20th of September 1874 and subsequent despatches deal with the general question, but as to the interpretation of the Supreme Court, it is due to the judges of that Court that I should transcribe for Your Lordship's information the following sentence from a letter addressed to the local Government in May 1876 by the Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and which is printed (pages 14-16) by the Supreme Court Commission of 1879 :-

"The Interpretation in the Court has been often remarked on as most defective; not one of the European officers in the Court understands Chinese, and no Interpreter of the Court being a professional man can write or speak English with ordinary propriety, nor speak more than one dialect in Chinese. It is to be lamented that no person is being educated to be a proper Interpreter.

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4. 267 2. The vacancy thus created enables me to deal finally with the important question of the staff of Interpreters for the Supreme Court. I need not now refer to the discreditable state in which I found the general system of Interpretation in this colony. My despatch No. 109 of the 20th of September 1874 and subsequent despatches deal with the general question, but as to the interpretation of the Supreme Court, it is due to the judges of that Court that I should transcribe for Your Lordship's information the following sentence from a letter addressed to the local Government in May 1876 by the Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and which is printed (pages 14-16) by the Supreme Court Commission of 1879 :- "The Interpretation in the Court has been often remarked on as most defective; not one of the European officers in the Court understands Chinese, and no Interpreter of the Court being a professional man can write or speak English with ordinary propriety, nor speak more than one dialect in Chinese. It is to be lamented that no person is being educated to be a proper Interpreter.
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4. 267 2. The vacancy thus created enables me to deal finally with the important question of the staff of Interpreters for the Supreme Court رق I need not now refer to the discreditable state in which I found the general system of Interpretation in this fotony. My despatch 0.109 of the you of Septembe W 1874 and subsequent despatches deal with the general question, but as to the interpretation of the Supreme dourt, it is due to the pages of that fourt that I should transcribe for Your Loriship's jinformation the following sentence 12747 from > سياسة letter addresses to the local Government in May 1876 by thief Justice Sir John binate, and which is printer (pages 14-16) by the Eupreme fourt fommission of 1879 :- The Interpretation in the forert. This " has been often remarked on as "most defective; not one of European officers in the fourt unverstands thinese, and no Interpreter of the fourt the being no profesional can write or "speak English with ordinary "propriety, سلسل speak more than one "dialect in thinese. It is to be "lamented that no person is being "Ducated to be a proper Interpreter
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4.

267

2.

The

vacancy

thus created

enables me to deal finally with the important question of the staff of Interpreters for the Supreme Court

رق

I need not now

refer to

the discreditable state in which I

found the general system of Interpretation in this fotony. My despatch 0.109 of the you of Septembe

W 1874 and subsequent despatches deal with the general question, but as to the interpretation of the Supreme dourt, it is due to the pages of that fourt that I should transcribe for Your Loriship's jinformation the following sentence

12747

from

>

سياسة

letter addresses to the local

Government in May 1876 by thief

Justice Sir John binate, and which is

printer (pages 14-16) by the Eupreme fourt fommission of 1879 :-

The

Interpretation in the forert. This

" has been often remarked on as "most defective; not one

of

European officers in the fourt

unverstands thinese, and no

Interpreter

of

the fourt

the

being

no profesional

can write or

"speak English with ordinary "propriety,

سلسل

speak more than one

"dialect in thinese. It is to be "lamented that no person is being

"Ducated to be a

proper Interpreter

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