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Sennotary

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and • Auditor General of Hongkong.

A Gradicate of the

University of Aberdun, which afterwards

conferred on him the honorary degree of Qoctor of Laws, Mr. Stewart.

of

appointed in 1861 to be dispicator Schools and Headmaster of the Central School (now Victoria College,) the

principal educational institution in

this Colony. Ik held these Offices for the

long period of twenty years, during

successfully organized the

which he

Central and the other Schools. He

earned the approval of the Sovernment,

and

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and also the gratitude of his Chinese. pupils, who founded "the Stewart "Scholarship in his honour. *

3.

X

Mr. Stewart

Magistrate from

X

was Police

1881 to 1883, when he

was promoted to the (in this ~ community,) very important office of Registrar - General and Protector of the Chinese. He has fitted temporarity at various periods, dusing

the absence

of the incumbents, the

offices of Coroner, Treasurer, and Colonial Searching

and Auditor

General. We has discharged the

See

by N.

my despatch N. 449 of 18th February, 1884,