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public business, and in the questions

of an international Character which

Constantly arise in their Colony. My Experience of two years here has taught

Ine that this multiplicity of business is sufficient for any luglichman in

this tropical climate; and that, if

in addition to his public duties, the lettorney-General havan rxtensive private practice, it is inevitable that

some portion of his work should be

performed in a

perfunctory

manner.

If grace inconvenience has not been

bitterts felt from thee & cxisting syetons

to so large

au retent av at the present

time, this difference muust be ascribed

to two principal causes : —

(a) The trade and Corusutree.

of Hong

Kong, and consequently the amount of :

Vastly

increased.

legal business has va

during the last few years.

(b) There was formerly a larger Bar,

or at least, the pruscipal legal

bruisiniess loas hot, forvarious reasons, in the hands of the Attorney-General

6. At the present time the Attorney

- General (tur O'malley), while his salary from the Government is only

£1000 a year,

is knotow to be ruaking

at least £4000 a year by his private

practice.

time