CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9] — Page 191

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6.

The variety of dialects in the Colony

Eo gerah that free communcation lor Among the Chuise themselves to not

always possible without the aid

Interpreters.

of

I mention this simply to

a

hostile

show how lazy

it would be for. Critic to disparage, in this Colony, onl Itnowledge of Chuurse, and how easy it

foould be to put a very fair Chuusee Scholar into a difficutting, if

bent on doring Eo.

one were only

7. I regret now that I did not

Call albution to this at a time when

the Huvoledge of Chuisse povorozed by a Member of Officers in the dewice was publicly decried, and the statementà publicly made that one Officer, and

Die

one only,

1887

Maw anything of Chuurse -

Knowledge of

-

Chrize like a knowledge of

| anything else to a matter of degree, and It does not follow, because one 13 pare-

- Piment, that all there are incompetent. 8 . At the time I refer to, it was not

zazy for her, considering the Office I held, to gainsay the assertion without seeming to be hostile ; and as I was catsford

That, after a

for a tince, it would not be

receurd here in the

the full pense.

all pense in which

it was convryed, I considered it prudent to be sebut - I ought perhaps to have_

curelances

remnubered that, where local circums

were not known, the statement would. be taken as

quial. 9. From the

Expenrice

ce I had in

the