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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1879.
Letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary to
[No.887.]
Messrs. Ts'oi Tsún and Mok Sze-yéung.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
11th October, 1878.
GENTLEMEN,-I am directed by His Excellency Governor HENNESSY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, asking for the usual licence to hold a Public Meeting of the Chinese residents of Hongkong, to consider and discuss the resolutions passed at a meeting held on Monday last.
2. His Excellency commands me to say that, in common with his predecessors, he has entire confidence in the loyalty and good sense of the Chinese community of Hongkong, whom you represent, but at the same time His Excellency would invite you and your friends to re-consider the idea of holding a Public Meeting to discuss the resolutions to which you refer.
3. The Governor is at all times most happy to receive, either by deputations or addresses, or in any other most convenient, the inhabitants
way of this Colony, whether European or Chinese. His Excellency is accessible to all classes, and is ready to hear whatever is to be said on anything that can promote the prosperity and good goverument of Hongkong.
4. On the other hand, the Governor entertaius some doubts as to whether Public Meetings are really the most prudent and efficient means by which the wishes and sentiments of the inhabi- tants of a Colony like this should be expressed.
5. Of course the Governor would not deny to one class of Her Majesty's subjects the pri- vilege freely accorded to another, and if the Chinese thought it essential to their interests to have a Public Meeting, His Excellency would not refuse his licence. But for the reasons given,—and as he deprecates anything like agita- tion,-His Excellency trusts, you and your friends will be satisfied with bringing your views to the notice of the Government in the form of writing or by deputation.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlenen.
Your most obedient Servant,
Messrs. Ts'or TSAN and
Mon Sze-YÉUNG.
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