His Excellency has been pleased to recommend that my Salary as Interpreter to the R.M. 's Court should be raised to £100. a year, with the understanding that I act as assistant native secretary as well. In these dear times such an addition would have been most acceptable and I began to feel secure against the whare here here, when suddenly my anticipations vanished for the Supt. told me that as soon as I received the expected addition my salary as Inspector of Police would be reduced £50, in other words appropriating one half of the amount His Excellency has been pleased to recommend for me to go towards defraying the expense of another Policeman! in place of John Dunn