CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3] — Page 262

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Read 31 MAI 98

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

THE PETITION OF WILLIAM QUINCEY, OF No. 25, PEEL STREET, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, LATELY INSPECTOR IN THE POLICE FORCE OF THAT COLONY.

RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :-

1.-Your Petitioner is a Chinese British subject who was rescued as a boy by the late General Gordon (Chinese Gordon) at the taking of Quin San from the Taiping rebels by the Imperialists, in May, 1863, by him sent to England, thore brought up and educated by Major F. Y. Cassidy, late 31st Regt. of foot, and brought out to Hongkong in 1870 by Captain Superintendent Deane, c.M.G.

2.--In October, 1870, your Petitioner joined the Police Force of Hongkong, and has served therein for the last 27 years. In 1874 he was promoted to Sergeant, and to Inspector in 1884, in the Detective Department. Your Peti- tioner has been several times commended for his services, and holds some scores of testimonials of various sorts, some few of which are set out in Schedule No. 1 hereto, and at the time of his dismissal, hereinafter mentioned, he held a first class good conduct medal, and the silver Plague medal for duty during the epidemic of 1894.

3.--Your Petitioner's pay, apart from all allowances earned for proficiency in the Mandarin dialect, etc., has been for several years $1,868 a year; so that he has held an office of the 3rd or highest class under rule 66 (and footnote thereto) of the Colonial Office Rules and Regulations (1897).

4. -On the 21st June, 1897, there was found, in the course of a raid on house No. 3, East Street, in the city of Victoria, used as a depôt and residence by certain gamblers, who carried on gambling on the 2nd floor of No. 2, Wah Lane, a document in Chinese, purporting, as your Petitioner understands, to contain a list of names, or numbers and descriptions, of many British, Indian, and Chinese Police, District Watchmen, Clerks in Government employ, and other persons, with numbers written opposite, denoting, according to the statements of a gambler named Sham In, the daily amounts paid to the various persons by the said gamblers as hush money.