Military Governor
was left there
on the expedition proceeding to the North of China, but that Captain Elliot (now Sir Charles Elliot) placed the Colony entirely and solely under my charge with the consent of Sir Hugh Gough (now Lord Gough), and that Sir Henry Pottinger confirmed
the arrangement on
in China.
for the same reason it was,
on his arrival
Again, for the same
that when the tents
of Rankin enabled Sir Henry Pottinger to return to the South
And he was made Governor of
Hong Kong from home, he appointed
Me Senior Member of the Executive and Legislative Council of the Colony - leaving me to act as Governor during his temporary Absences from the Island. Similarly it was, that in writing home to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1846, recommending
me as
a Member of the Executive Council, Sir John Davis said, "Mr. Caine's experience of the Colony, of which
he was for some time Lieutenant
Governor
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