The scandal in connection with the Police Department is still kept alive by further dismissals from the service. Among the latest of the discharged is Mr. T. W. Quincey, of the Registrar-General's department, on an allegation of receiving bribes. Mr. Quin-coy, who is a sri of Inspector Quincey, was avery promising young man, and has for some months been in Peking studying the Mandarin dialect. I hear that a Committes of the Executive: Council have lately been engaged considering whether any and what proportion of the pensions of the discharged tlicinls should be awarded to them. It is Forfeit his pension too is dealing out very generally felt that to sack a man and hard measure to the peccant officers.
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