and General Interpreter in the room of Mr. Caldwell, resigned, being gazetted on the 9th Mr. Grande-Pré was represented as an alien, and in other respects his appointment was untavourably commented upon, and as a Police Commission had been sitting since the 1st August, this appointment was suggested as one for inquiry, having regard to the qualifications for the office of the senior officers passed over. His next appointment was that of Acting Superintendent of Police under Mr. May's (Acting Chief Magistrate's) occasional supervision.» 87

«The Assistant Magistrate, Sheriff and Marshal of the ViceAdmiralty Court, having obtained six months leave of absence on the 30th May, Mr. May was appointed, as before, to act in the various positions, Mr. Grande-Pré taking over the acting Superintendentship of Police. On the 1st January, 1858, it was notified, however, that, in consequence of the Assistant Superintendentship of Police having been abolished, the Governor has appointed Mr. A. Grande-Pré to be Collector of the Police and Lighting Rates- a position, it was said, which much better fitted him.» 88

He died in 1865, aged forty-six years. His family seem to have retired to Macao, where his only son died some years later, the family name dying out with him.

Portugal was one of the first countries to be represented by a Consulate in Hongkong, the first Portuguese consul being appointed as early as the year 1846. He was Mr. Francisco José da Paiva, a prominent merchant of Macao, who tranferred his business to Hongkong. Mr. Paiva died in 1849, and his successor in business was appointed Portuguese Consul in his place. Incidentally, Mr. Paiva's name is perpetuated in Macao by the street named after him- Travessa do Paiva, off Praia Grande, just beside Government House- and the family residences, at the top of the same street, are among the very few remaining houses of the old merchant princes of Macao's prosperous days at the beginning of the XIXth century.