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of the Cadets appointed to the Civil Service of Hong Kong to learn Chinese at Peking instead of, heretofore, at Canton.
In common with my predecessors in this Government, I have found great inconvenience from not having at my command a single person at Hongkong, who can speak or understand the Chinese language as spoken by the educated and official classes in China. For instance, when Admiral Ting recently entertained me at the Government House, I invited Mr. Justice Russell and Mr. Stewart (the late and present Registrars-General, and Protectors of Chinese), to meet him at table, when I found that they were unable to understand him, or he them; so that we should have been without the power of conversing together, had not the Admiral brought with him his Flag-Captain (Fong teh Kien) who had been trained in the English Navy and is well acquainted with our language. So also Mr. Lister, Mr. Deane, and Mr. Lockhart, the former Cadets
3
234
some
2
of
the Cadets appointed to the- Civil Service of HongKong to learn ~
Chinese at Peking instead of, heretofore, at Canton.
In
common with
my
predecessors in this Government, I
- have found great.
not having at my
inconvenience
Conti
ence from
t
mand
single person at Hongkong, who can speak
or understand the Chinese
language as spoken by the educated
and official classes in China. For __ -instance, when Admiral Ting recently entertained
by
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me at the
Government
be to sear of State Government House", I invited Mr. Justice
Russell and Mr. Stewart (the late and
table,
present Registrars-General, and Protectors of Chinese), to meet him at when I found that they
to
my
were unable
understand him, or he them; so -
that we should have been without
: the power of conversing together, had not the Admiral brought with him his Hag-Captain (Fong teh Kien) who had been trained in the English Navy and is well acquainted with our language. So also Mr. Lister, Mr. Deane, and Mr. Lockhart, the former Cadets
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