but before any decision can be arrived at upon it, it is essential that Her Majesty's Government should be furnished with more detailed information on the most essential features of the plan. They will probably wish that this be as free as possible to consider the matter fully when Government is formulating its views.
They have some knowledge of the Electoral body, which, according to para 8 of the Minute, is to be composed of all registered holders of an undivided lot of land "under Crown lease" of the yearly rental of £10 and upwards. They should be enabled to form an estimate of the probable number of such Electors: the proportion they may bear to the unrepresented classes of the population: whether they would be chiefly European, and with what admixture of Chinese islanders or recent settlers, and such other particulars as Colonel Juhan may be able to communicate.