CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3] — Page 411

several casual conversations with me

On

cement, also on

the quality of local clays and their adaptability for bricks and for

the best method of manufacture and the likelihood of the Governcuent, the English community and the Chinese people using any of the locally made bricks or cement . I forget what views I. have expressed in

may have

at the time as

reply

firme but

op

Co

to private persons

to the Government seing

any of the local cement, Thold such.

decided opinions as to the standard of

quality necessary efficiency,

that

my

in order to secure

answer to Mur

(Frange must have satiefied him that

there

was to

-chance of the Public Works

f

Departiment becoming the customer the local Brick and Cement Company,

Some months subsequently I learnt

that Ner Orange had, on

behalf and at the request of allr Chater, written. home for samples of cement clunker

tes

mall

Masinfactan

it i

for

for Mr Chater to experiment on I

attached No

405

importance to the

dismissed it from

circunstânce and

any

minid until

quite recently when I was summoned to five evidence before a Board offlerquiry composed of the Attorney General and

As my

the Freacure.

evidence was taken down, d presume it will be transmitted to Wis Excellency the Asting Governor. From what dropped from

members of the Board

of Enquiry

the

it

was

impossible not to infer that a grave

had

charge :d been suggested against Orange.

Mr

It was hinted that he had been

making fake reports to me

of the testo

I had ordered him to make at Foitam

of the Cament shipped by the frown agents

disparaging

with a view to

that cement

the

itew

and in the hope of substituting local Company's manufacture in ito

stead.

Knowing the rectitude of character

of

i