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KAYINGCHAU, a place one hundred and seventy miles inland Having passed my from Swatow, the nearest Treaty Port.

examination with "credit" I returned to Perak, and acted as collector of Land Revenue, Kinta, for nearly two years, when I was reported on by Mr Birch, the Resident, in his annual report as "having a thorough grasp of land work”. The District Magistrate in his Annual Report for 1895 wrote:-

It is particularly satisfactory to report that despite several minor changes in the staff, excellent progress has been made in the working of this important department under the able con- trol of Mr E. A. Irving.

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I believe they have since the Second Class, with powers beon reduced, of inflicting sentences of imprisonment with hard labour for six months, and a correspondingly wide juris-

But I sat on the bench only c006- diction in civil cases. sicnally. In 1996, I was appointed Warden of Mines, North, In 1898, I was appoint

and Assistant Protector of Chinese. ed Warden, Selangor, and acted as Warden for the South of Perak, that is for the largest alluvial tin field in the world, where very important European and Chinose interests

There was at the time a labour force of aro at stako.

A reference to the Mining Code will about 40,000 coolies. show how responsible wero the judicial powers vested in the Warden, exceeding those of an ordinary First Class Magistrate

I #ab sat on the bench twice or which ex officic he was. thrice a week for three years, and had, besides an important criminal jurisdiction inclúding the power of inflicting fines

up to $1000, a very wide jurisdiction in civil cases.

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