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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JULY, 1881.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 241. The following despatches are published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th July, 1881.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 31.
RACE DISTINCTION IN CITY HALL MUSEUM RULES.
GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 5th April, 1881.
MY LORD, I have the honour to enclose a letter from Mr. KESWICK, dated the 31st ultimo, but. not received by me till some days later, stating why the present Committee of the City Hall decline to accede to the wish of Her Majesty's Government that the race distinction, begun in 1875, should be abolished in the rules of admission to the Museum of the City Hall, on which so much money of the ratepayers generally has been laid out since 1869.
2. Mr. KESWICK states that he has already communicated a copy of his letter to Your Lordship direct.
3. I also enclose a copy of the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 5th of February, 1881, transmitting Your Lordship's decision, and stating that if the City Hall Committee eliminate the race' distinction, I should be happy to give them a grant for 1881.
4. I cannot vouch for the complete accuracy of the letter Mr. KESWICK now addresses to Your Lordship, but I am unwilling to criticise it or to discuss the matter any further, being content with the opinion unanimously expressed by my Executive Council, and by every member of the Legislative Council (with the exception of Mr. KESWICK), when the impropriety of this anti-Chinese notice was fully debated.
The Right Honourable THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY,
HONGKONG.
No. 60.
I have, &c.,
J. POPE HENNESSY.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY TO Governor SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
DOWNING STREET,
25th May, 1881.
SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 31 of the 5th of April last, forwarding a Memorial from Mr. KESWICK respecting the City Hall Museum.
I request you to inform Mr. KESWICK that his Memorial has been received and considered, but that I see no reason to alter the decision arrived at in my despatch No. 91 of the 22nd December last, which has already been communicated to him, namely, that I cannot sanction the continued expenditure of public money on any institution of the kind in which any distinction is made among the different ratepayers in the rules of admission; although I should not object to admission alternately free and by payment.
Governor Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G..
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KIMBERLEY.
No. 32.
CHIEF JUSTICE SIR JOHN SMALE.
GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG, 9th April, 1881.
MY LORD, I have the honor to report that, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, I have granted four months' vacation leave and two months' leave of absence on half salary to the Chief Justice, Sir JOHN SMALE, in accordance with the Colonial Regulation 135, it being His Honor's intention to apply for pension on retiring after twenty years' service and I enclose the usual certificate for Your Lordship's confirmation.