THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1893.
ticular form. I believe, with all respect to the opinion of his Excellency and his Honour the Chief Justice, that the Secretary of State intended to concede such an exquiry, and that the Commitee as at present constituted may be within the letter, but is not within the spirit, of his Lordship's despatch... 1 am speaking now solely for myself. If the other unofficial mem beri of Council do not agree with nia and are content to accept this as the enquiry they asked exally filled by and or other of them. 10
*At the same time may I, through this letter, urge upon Mess. Whichead and Chater reconsideration of their objections to a Committee of four, viz two unofficial members and one official member and a Chairman. It seems to me that a Commlitee ao consiituted would give the unofficial members all the advantages which the origin of the Committed could fairly be held to entitle them 10, and would be within both the letter
and split of the Secretary of State's sufficiently meet my personal objections, is such a Committee no recommendation could be catried la the te th of unoticial opposition, and every recommendation which a majority could agree to would be free from the possible reproach of being mere party conclusion. It might of course happen' that on some points there would be an equal division, but the only result would be that no recommendation could, in that can, be formolated.
said and done nothing to justify these allegations. 1, and many others, have alleged that retrenchments and economies in many ways can be suggested. His Excellency hai sald the same, and pointed out many of thaways, some new to us. I have never arrogated to my self the monopoly of opinion or suggestion you charge me with claiming. I have never all or thought that only through the medium of a Com. mittee could my or others' suggestions for retrenchment be put forward, but I have sild thinks with me, that a comprehensive public enquiry is the proper means of ascertaining the facts about the public service, of getting a com, prehensive view of them, of recording them, and of lay log the foundation for future, as well as for present, improvements.
overmuch because ka petticoats are solled. Mr.
August ist. Gladstone muzzled the House and rables set in.
The race for the Queen's Cup, open to boats owned by members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, took place today. The course was 50 miles long. The yachts starting were the Valkyria, Britannia, Malsor, owned by the German Emperor, the Fiting and Mokaus. The Valkyrie finished first, the Britannia second and the Meteor third. The judges declared the
Instructions, while at the same time it would for, thee are free.to act on it, and my place is | informed the Government and suggestions to scheme of retrenchment, and that private and think, and fortunately the Secretary of State | Valkyrie the winner.
"As Mr. Whitebead it good enough to impute to me perfect impartiality, I fail to see why be should object to a Committee composed (exclud ing the Chairman) of two members on bis sido (for it is impossible to escape the conclusion that there are sides) and one on the other."
4-in regard to your application for permis sion to publish the correspondence on the subject of the constitution of the Committee, H.E. hopes that you will, by consenting to serve, obviate any necessity for suca publication, but should you finally decline to serve, he will be obliged by your renewing your application as in that erent be would wish to add certain observations (which otherwise he would not consider neces- Bary) to form part of the matter to be published.
I remain air, your obedient servant,
J.T. STERLING, A.D.C.
HON. T. H. WHITEHEAD TO THE A.D.C.
Hongkong, Bth August, 1893. Captain J. T. Sterling, A.D.C, Government
House.
consideration.
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Sir, I bave received your letter of the sth bastant and have cadeavoured to give it due I am very sorry that you should have had the trouble of again writing. I thought I had made it quite clear la my letter of the sad inst. that could not consent to serve on the Commission said, or intended to say, in the second last paragraph of that note, as at present constituted. that if his Excellency could not see his way to the appointment of such a Commission as was unanimously asked for by the unofficial members, I felt prevented from taking part in the proceed. ings of a Committee so composed that, while bar. ring the way to a more effective Inquiry la the fature, it could nut hope to accomplish much in the present. It is with very great regret that I find myself compelled to adhere to the decision embodied in these few words, and I can only apologise to his Excellency for the trouble I have given, and thank him for his considerate kind ness in pereluing me to consider the matter s second time, and for his courtesy in communicat ing Mr. Justice Clarke's views on the subject.
There are two points in his Honour's letter with him, and in which I am afraid I differ from with reference to which I cannot quite agree bis Excellency also, I do not think that the Committee as now constituted is within the spirit, although within the letter, of the Secretary of State's Instructions. The unofficial members of Council in their petition asked for "an erquiry by a brdy to be composed of members of the Community unconnected with the Government, or at least a majority of such persons. They asked for an independent" enquiry. His Excellency in blu despatch of the 17th January last, para 17,, emphasises this by quoting between inverted commas the words cited above. When the misiter was referred to in the House of Commons by Mr. Beitb, he asked for the appointment of an "independent Commission. Neiber in the House of Commons, nor la bis Lordship's despatch of the 21st April, does the Secretary of State indicate any seluctance to the appointment of such Commission. Nothing could have been easier than for his Lordship to have said in express terms that while prepared to grant an enquiry, it could not be granted in the form asked for, and to have directed lu so many words that there should not be an Independent majority. The matter was expressly before blu,
and while fimlting the number of omcixis to be placed uppy the Committer, he has put no limit on the number of unofficials. A Committee of two official members and three unofficial would have been as completely within the words of Lord Ripon's despatch as they certainly would have been, in my humble opinion, within the spirit of his communications fa reply to the peiliion addressed to blm,
My refusal to act need ant stop the enquiry, if his Excsilesey thinks it sight that it should proceed without farther reference to the Secretary of Stale, but I am sure his Excellency will admit that I am at least consistent, and that enterialstog the oplatons I do, I cannot be expected to accept the nomination, however anxious I am to support him in his desire for retrenchment.I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant.
T. H WHITEHEAD.
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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO HON, T. H. WHITEHEAD.
then one occasion that
decide anything, and that its functions were pahile the necessity for a comprehensive enguley shictly limited to angülsing and recommend into the facts, that it might be ascertained and made clear in what depasipients and to what ing. It obviously follows that any recom
extent *cinomies and retrenchments were menditions which the Committee, or any of Re members may make, will by no means ponible. In my expressed opinion as to the necessuil derive weiht in proportion to thebeasibility of recious retrenchments I sin number of the members making the sevesni happly confirmed by his Excellency the recommendations, but solely from the amount al Goremer, as the result of the enquiries be has reason and good sense which the recommenda. been able to make. I am more than justified in ils may acycrally contain. You pracilosily my opinion that an enquiry by: an independent the public on more Committee is an essential preliminary to any you have make which are feasible and which would enable enquiries conducted wholly within the bosom very important redactions to be made in the of the Government itself are inadequate, by the expend! are of the Colony, and you are apparently decision of the Secretary of State di acting a of opiston that you can propound those sugges. comprehensive enquiry, in spite of the strong protests of his Excellency the Governor that no tions only through the fastrumentality of a
Committee. Wastever the such public enquiry was necessary or desirable, Retrenchment grounds of that oplaton may be, it is clear that and that he was in possession of all needial for the propounding of your suggestions it can informailon. not be essential that you should have a majority on the Committee. Even if you' were in a minority of one, the Governor falls to see why that should prevent you from making the most useful recommendations that it might be la your power to make. The circunstance of your being in a minority could not lo any way detract from thereasonableness of any recommendation which you might make, nor consequently from the consideration to be given to such reasonable ness; nor would these in any way be increased if you were in a majority. This is, however, by the way the material point is not how you arrived at your conclusion, but that you did arrive at it.
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At one regatta of the Royal Sou hampton Yacht Club to day the Navahos deleated the Safaeita. The other two yachts which started, the Calluna and Ivarna, had their nails carried away and gave it up.
In the Commons on Monday, in reply to a 13. The community is deeply grateful to his
query by J. L. Wharton, Con., concerning the Excellency for having so promptly, after bis melee of Thunday last, Mr. Gladstone said that snival, takes up the question of retrenchment doubtless it would be for the general convenience by bla fmmediate predecessors, for his of the House and in the interests of good order Com enquiries, for his ecanomien already If an arrangement conld be arrived at by means of which the supporters of the Garemment and effected, and for these promised, but I think he
the members of the Opposition might sit on will find they will still prefer, with the Secretary of State, an Independent and public enquiry, as more effective and more far-reaching than any merely departmental Investigation.—I have the bonour to be, air, your most obedient scrrant.
6-His Excellency might well have been surprised if I had consted to act o mitice which from its composition mast utterly fall to push any effective enquiry in any direction about which there may be any serious differences of opleton between the representatives on it of the public and of the Government. II I had done so I should have exposed myselfle charge of inconsistency and folly, in having gitated for an Independent enquiry and accepted something which, equally divided in Its numbers, lacked the power to push its favestigations, and the independence that could give authority to 7. Of course, there might have been an lis report and recommendations. anomaly la appointing a Committee on which I had not, at least, been asked to sit, hut my refusal to take part in the proceedings of this Committee by no means precludes the appoint meat of an independent Committee af Enquiry.
fectly independent of the Government, convinced as I am of the necessity of retrenchment and of the need for that comprehensive enquiry that the Secretary of State has ordered, and more com- knowledge of affairs in such an investigation. petent than I am to aid by their experienes and I accept bis Excellency's assurance that the abandonment of the enquiry by the Commitice (the only one I alluded to) is not necessarily tantamount to the abandonment of all enquiry. 1 feel confident his Excellency will continue the good work he has commenced, but unfortunately this departmental enquiry is precisely what neither the public nor, apparently, the Secretary of State have complete confidence in.
T. H. WHITEHEAD,
NEWS BY THE CANADIAN MAIL.
and especially in the cost of the Government them, as they did persible to 'assent to There are numbers of men in Hongkong, pa- | exchanges :-
-Cace more in his anxiety to remove erentbe semblance of justification for your reluctance to serve on the Committee, the Governor was disposed to give effect to your wishes. Needless to say, he did not consider them ressonable, but he thought it was
not directly contravene the terms of the Secretary of State's instructions But here he was met by a double difficulty. Mr. Belllies, who was invited to join the Committee, presiding over a Commitee constituted in the declined, and the Chief Justice objected to manner desired by you. In order, however, to do the utmost that was possible to meet your views, although he was quite unable to admit their reasonableness, the Governor reduced the number of official members on the Committee by the withdrawal of the Harbour Master, so that the Committee finally consisted of the Chairman, another official, and two unofficial, members of the Legislative Council.
Hongkong, Colonisi Secretary's 'Omes,
rath August, 1893 Sir,I am directed to acknowledge the receipi of your letter of 8b fastant addressed to the Governor's A.D.C, (and received on 6th instant), in which you state your inability to serve on the Retrenchment Commfiled a pointed by his Excellency and consisting of the Honourable P. Chater, yourself, and Mir, May, with his Honour the Chief Justice as Chairman,
2-Looking to the part which you have taken obtaining the appointment of a Retrenchment Committee, and to the fact that your public assur. unces of the facility with which large economies might be effected in the expenditure of the colony, establishments, bave raised expectations of results of extreme importance from your co operation on the Commit e, bis Excellency bas fitted you. He also feels that, in the circum received your final refasst to serve with not a stances which I have refered to, Retrench- meat Committee in Hongkong which did not include you as a member would be so manifestly Incomplete and anomalous that your withdrawal precludes his making any further attempt at present to constitute a Committee. At the same time be most disclaim all responsibility for the talere ce which you have been pleased to draw in your letter of and instant, that this decision on bla part is necessarily tantamount to "the abandonment of the enquiry altogether."
3-It may be useful here very briefly to recapitulate the circumstances which have led to the appointment of the Commitee, and these which have followed it. You have more than once moved in the Legislative Council for the appointment of x Retrenchment Committee, and dwet on the great advantages that would accrue therefrom to the colosy." The Governor has been unable to share your view, belag of the opinion that he was already aware of such economies as could be effected without, breach public service, and being fu'ly determined to do of faith or prejudice to the efficiency of the all in his power to effect them as opporturity might off.r. Nevertheless in the memorial of 12th January last, addressed to ibe Secretary of State, you pressed for the appointment of a Com- mitter, presumably because you were satisfied that you knew of further economies that were practicable in addition to those contemplated by his Excellency, and because you thought, for some reason which is not evident, that the appointment of Committen would afford the best, if not the only, means of bringing them under the notice of the Garemment. The Secretary of State decided that a Committee should be appointed, "over which the Colonial Secretary or the Chief Justice might preside with one or two other Government officers and certain ancfficial members of the Council colleaving received this instruction, the Go- vernor proceeded to carry it isto effect; and he desires me fa this connection to observe that if The Honourable T. H. Whitehead, &c, &c. &c by the references in your letters of 5th July and and instant to his "declared opposition to any enquiry" ne to "a searching investigation into
8:-I have moved three times for a Committee of Enquiry, twice before his Excellency's arrival in Hoogkong and once since, and I have taken an active part in promoting the memorial and petition of January last, to the Secretary of State, even after I was aware that Sir William Robinson was alive to the necessity for retrenchment, was making enquiries, and was preparing a scheme bat permit me to state that there is no ground whatever for your assertion that I did so because I knew of further economies that might be effected which were unknown to the Governor, or because I thought Committee the only means by which I could make my recommends-
8. His Excellency subsequently, after inti mating his inability to adopt a suggestion made by you to add to the Committee a gentleman who was neither an official nor a member of the Legislative Council, caused you to be informed that he could not alter the constitution of the Committee consisting of the Honourable Mr. Chater, yourself, and Mr. May, with the Chief Tastice as Chairman; and you have thereapsa fically declined to serve on the Committee.
9. Under these circumstances bis Excellency has no alternative but to acquaint the Secretary of State with the steps which he has taken to the fallure which has attended them; and he tiens and opinions heard. I did so because I carry out bis Lordship's instruction, and with directs me to invite you to submit any representa thought and still think a public indepsadent tion on the subject which you may wish to be enquiry, conducted by persons in the mala un considered by the Secretary of State. In view of onected with the Government service, is the the considerable relay which has already taken best Instrument for ascertaining all the facta place, It is desirable that the matter should be connected with the working of the Government reported to the Secretary of State as soon as departments, the oplatons of all competent and possible and his Excellerey therefore trusts that disinterested persons as to possible improve. you will not take more than a week to formulatements and economies, and of placing an record for the information of future Governors and your represtalation. It should be submitted in
Colonial Secretaries the facts so ascertained. triplicate.
9-Carlously enough the Secretary of State agrees with the views expressed not merely by me, but by the unoficial members and by the public of Hongkong, and la condemning my views and their you have the appearance, at least, of condemning the action of that high official
10-Ia according you the permission for which you have appiled, to publish the correspondence, is Excellency desires that this letter may be taken as a portion of the matter to be published, and that it may be at the previo fellati a tion at the same time as the previous letters on the subject-I have the honour to be, air, your most obedient servant,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
HON. T. H. WHITEHEAD TO COLONIAL
SECRETARY.
Hongkong, 26th August, 1893, The Honourable G. T. M. O'Brien, C.M.G., the
Colonial Secretary. Sir,I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1,185, bearing date the 12th instant.
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opposite sides of the House. Mr. Gladstone added that he had no power in the matter.
Wm. Hunter, Lib, asked if Mr. Gladstone buď taken into consideration the injury done to the honour and dignity of the House of Commons, and if the assaults'commlited by members on Thursday evening were to be allowed to pass without punishment being inflicted upon the offenders. He also inquired what action would be taken if he moved for the appointment of a committee to inquire into and report on the matter? Mr. Gladstone replied that he would auswer the questions to-morrow,
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer Empress of India, Capt. O. P. Marshall, R.N.R., | arrived in harbour this morning from Vancouver.
Henry Labouchere referred to a statement is Japan and Shanghai. For the subjoined telegrams we are indebted to our Columbian made in the Pall Mall Gasetis by a prominent Conservative, Mr. Fisher, member for Fulbam, LONDON, July 27th. which referred to his assault on John William The General Credit Company has suspended; Logan, the Liberal member for South Leicester. shire. He suggested that Mr. Logan be per« capital, £100 000.
Steamer Pearl ran into and sank the steamermitted to reply to Mr. Fisher's statement. Archibald Finney, coal laden, off North Rock, County Down, Ireland, yesterday. Seven pez. sons on board the Finney were drowned and five saved..
Joseph Havelock Wilson, M.P. for Middles borough, and secretary of the National Seamen's Intan, whose Ubel suit against the London Evening News and Pest for £7,000 damages resalted to a readlet for the paper, has received another legal setback. The Shipping Garette printed parts of the articles published in the News and Post which formed the basis of Mr. Wilson's action against the paper, and Mr. Wilson also sued the Gazette for libel, placing his damages at 1,000. The case was tried at the Guildford Auslass yesterday and a verdict given for the Garette. The articles which Mi Wilson chimed were libellons, charged that the executive of the Nailona) Seamen's Union bad recklessly disbursed the funds of the anion and had then fomented a strike to head off all inver tigation.
DENVER, July 27th. Thirty-five thousand heagry people were fed with bread, weat and milk yesterday by the missions. The list of idle mens increasing as the It had silver miners come la from camps. been planned by the unempo ed that men 1,000 should march to the Governor office and demand free transportation casty were disanided from doing so by the cũyć of the Rev. Myron Reed and Thos. Uzz!L ́A train fond of men were sent eastward last night.
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The Speaker said that he thought it would conduce to a peaceful solution of the matter if both the gentlemen addressed the Hours.
Mr. Fisher, amid exles of “Logan," "Logan," arose and expressed deep regret for the part he had taken in the affray. He thought, he said, that Mr. Logan intended to assault him or Mr. Curzon, and it was for this reason that he mixed op in the trouble. He was greatly distressed at having created disorder in the House.
Mr. Logan emphatically denied that he had intended to salt anyone, and sincerely regretted that he had been concerned in the affair,
Mr. Gladstone said that the explanations were satisfactory to him and he hoped the matter would be allowed to drop. Mr. Ballour and Justin McCarthy also expressed themselves ka fatisfied. Mr. McCarthy, however, protested against the idea that the row was due to the Irish members.
August and.
A dispatch from Paris to the Pall Mall Gazette says that the Behring sex tribunal of arbitration has made good progress, and it is expected that decision will be rendered in a fortnight. The dispatch adds that every polot at issue has now been adjusted, and that the decision will give entire satisfaction to Great Britsla and Canada. In every instance the claims advanced by Sis Charles Russell and Sir Richard Webster, the counsel for Great Britain, are held to be good. The decision will be unanimous on all points, BERLIN, July 27th, save one, la which Justice John M. Harlan and The Tageblatt rejoices over the prospect that Senator John T. Morgan, the American England; which scornfully holds aloof from the arbitrators, bold out for the American claims Drifbard, may become embroiled with France The tribunal is now discussing the question of over the Siamese affalz, “England,” says the||the regulations to govern the seat fisheries, Tageblatt, will be taught a lesson, and she need not expect to receive German support." Other newspapers express similar sentiments, although in milder terms.
WASHINGTON, July 28th,
In the Commons Col. Howard Vincent saked if the Commissioner of Works and Pablle Balldings had considered the hearing of the recent scenes in the House of Commons on the overcrowded benches. It was impossible, Vincent said, for members to find accommoda tion among their own party and he desired to be informed as to whether plans were being pre-
The President has famed a proclamationpared to remedy the evil. reciting the various acts of Congress relating to the salvage of vessels wrecked in Canadian waters, contiguous to the United State, and declaring that the conditions prescribed therein have been fulfilled, and permitting Canadian vessels to be aided in case of wreck by Canadian wreckers..
LONDON, July 9th.
In reply to a query by Mr. Goschen, in the Commons on Filday Sir Wm. Vernon-Harcourt said that the telegram directing the Government of India to close the mints in that country to the free coloage of allver, did not contain Instructions in regard to making gold the legal tender. That matter had been left to the discretion of the Indian Government.
Sit Edward Grey, in replying to a question tion as to the effect on British trade of the French blockade of the Siamese coast, was being discussed by the Foreign Office officials and the law oflcers of the Government.
Right Hon. G. J. Shaw-Lefevre, Brat Commis- aloner of Works and Public Balldinge, seid in reply that he refused to associate the disorders with the accommodation. - The House usually was not crowded. At the same time, if the members so desired, the Government would appoint a committee for enlarging the area of the House.
could fairly be held to entitle them to, as that Justice an Chalimar, the Harbour Master, the presently refer more fally, bis Excellency has my first ember were withdrawn. The Gom- asked by Str Charles Dike, said that the ques-wifect is wonderful. Thousands who have derived
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CONSUMPTION, Wasting Diseases, and General Deblilty, Doctors disagree as to the relative value of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophoshpites ; the one supplying strength and flesh-the others giving nerve power and acting as a tonic to the digestion and entire system. But in Scott's Emulsion of Pare Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites the two are combined, and the
have been cured by this. "Scott's Emulsion" is no permanent benefit from other preparations perfectly palatable, and is easily digested even by those who cannot tolerate pisin Cod Liver Oll. Any Chemist can supply it. A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.
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ro--Again I accept unhesitatingly your arsur- · The President has issued a proclamation in- ance that the Governor on receipt of the descluding Portugal within the benefits of the Inter- patch of the 21st April last put naide all opporisational Copyright Act.
loa to the appointment of Committee of Enquiry, and had no other anxiety than that it should get to work as speedily as possible. But it must be admitted, I think, that his first appointment was very unfortunate, It was organization and manning of the Govern the capiaments, and late the colonial expen.
neither within the letter nor the spirit of the Margals of Ripon's instructions. It was dkture generally," you intend to allege any
unwieldy la number, and it did not consist of opposition to the Committee which he was fastracted to appoint, you have no warrant
the desired majority of persons unconnected with the Government service. It contained two whatever for the allegation When it was
In this letter you acknowledge, by direc-members of the Government service who, far decided by the Secretary of State bat a Committee should be appointed, bie Excel- tion, my note of the 8th August to the A.D.C. many reasons, were most undesirable and most lency's one anxiety was that the Com- conveying my final refusal to serve on the Re anpopular as members of any such enquiry, I mites should set to work as speedily as postrenchment Committes of tour, appointed by said nothing on the subject at first, considering It more than probable that his Excellency of his Neither can I agree with his Honour the Chief sible. At the first ensuing meeting of the Legisla. his Excellency the Governor. You laform me Justice that the unofficial element would have dive Council be announced his intention of sp. that, for the reasons stated in the second para- owa motion, and enlightened by the public press, all the advaninges the origin of the Committee painting Committee confatlag of the Chiel graph of your letter, and to which I shall would see fit to make some change. In reply to remonstrance, one official and one 'un- Commitice is at present composed. The Com. Honourable Messis Chater and Keswick, your received my refuzal with no little surpilve, and mmittee is the autcome of a long continued airng, seif, and Messrs. Wodehouse and May, and on that he feels himself precluded by that refusal mittee was less unwieldy but still wrongly com
from making any further attempt to copstate posed. If the official member only, had been gle between the unofficial members of the the return of the Chief Justice from leave, as
Committee. You polat out, however, that the withdrawn, I should have served.” As it was Legislative Council and the Government of soon as certalo indispensable preliminaries bad
none of my objections were met by the change. the Colony on the subject, first of retrenchment, been arranged, he lost no time in making those abandonment of the Committee does not neces
sarily involve the abandonment of all enquiry The relative strength of parties remained the A motion that the Government be censured and secondly of caqulry with a view to retrench-appointment on the occason of bis Excel- inte the expenditure of the colony. You then
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because they manifested no keen sympathy for ment.. Uaill bis Excellency arrived in the Colony
III may say here that your attack on the the sufferers from the agricultural depression there was no admission on the part of any lency's announcing the consiliation of the Com- proceed to review the circumstances which led
tuber of the Government, that retrenchment mittes which he intended to appoint, zor for up to the attempts that have been made to community generally because of the alleged un-was negatived by a vote of 161 to 137.
All the papers discuss the discreditable incid- was either necessary or possible, His Ex-long afterwards, did you offer any objection or appoint a Committes, and that have followed willingness of members to serve on Commissions cellency, it is true, fully admits the need for suggestion, and it was only when all the neces. them, and you conclude by according me the and Commitees they have been urgent to pray ent in the House. The Times concludes: The setrenchment, and that there is room for it, and sary arsurements had been completed that you permission i asked for, to publish the whole of for, is unfounded and unjust, The Treasury political manners of the pot house might have be advocates many valuable reforme, but his complained to his Excelicacy that the appoint. the correspondence on the subject, and by Frauds Enquiry, the Quarantine Commission, been left to serve as an example of what would Excellency and the Hon, the Colonial Secretary most of three official membert, exclusive of the requesting me to let you have at an early date, and many others are proof to the contrary. The occur la the Irish Legislature, should Mr. have always opposed a pabile and ladependent Chairman, was not la strict accordance with the and in triplicate, say representation I may destro Po Leang Kak Enquiry was a fallure, and a Gladstone succeed in establishing that prepos enquiry. On appeal to the Secretary of State terms of the Instruction of the Secretary of State. to make to the Right Honourable the Secretary warning to all interested in the retrenchment terous body.
because a majority was appolated on i The Standard's closing remarks are: The the views of the unofficial members of Cousall His Excellency old not and does not think it of State for the Colonies.
enquothe object for which it was constituted, épisode must have been unspeakably painful to 3-I regret that I have not brea able to dis have prevailed over the views of the officials, likely that de Secretary of State fatended b and if either side is entitled to have a majority phrase of one or two other Government entangle your very long and very complicated who thought enquiry sapainous and need bir. Gladstone. His bitterest opponents must on the Committee of Enquiry and to make their officers" to be so rigidly Interpreted as to forbid statement, and to prepare reply to the very less, and because the Chairman was the allow that he has sought to maintain a high views prevall it is surely that which thinks as the appel atment of three, and the real fatention serious charges there brought against me, within very last man who ought to have been in that standard of courtery and dignity to Parliament. enquiry necessary, and desires to push it to the was pro bance. But desiring to obviate all pot have takes time to reperuse all the corespon-pos sald, rather aquafor your unstration la, 1 But Mr. Giadatens must be aware that the igno-
afraid, an unfortunate one.
ble scene was closely connected, by the chain of extent, and not that side that has always actually made. nil
13-I have refused to serve on the Retrench- Cause and effect, with the discredit which he has oppased
pared pubile and independent enquiry an un-sible objection on your part is Excellency con dance on the subject, and all my cherences
sented in reduce the number of the Committes about retrenchment and the Retrenchment Comment Committes as appolated by His Excellency brought on the House of Commons. necessary and inopportune,
bicial member. This cosse presented the less the public and the Secretary of State that your asked for thanimously by the unofficial members
the withdrawal of one official and pas namitee, and I think I shall now be able to satisfy because it is not the independent Committee The Daily News says: When the public very personal and very direct attack en me is of Connell and by the public. The object of the universal feeling of fadignation and regret that menly, hacman and a desire to be relieved wholly without Justification, also that it is not Commite, az asked for by the public and as the most illustrious statesman of the nga was Keswick, had
I responsible for the fallare conceded by the Secretary of State, is set only exposed to such fasalts as these flang by Mr. from serving His Excellency was confirmed who ought to be held r
his opinion of the propriety of the step by an on the part of the Government to carry out the to recommend, but to enquire, take evidence, Chamberlain. To compare Mr. Gladstone with
and report on the facts of the case. The recom (stimulon from the Chief Justice that be con- Instructions of the Colonial Office. sidered a Committee of six undely large, and that
| Secretary of State for the Colonies on importance.
Flease note what the Right Honourable the in the service" The party favouring enquiry would result in the inordinate protraction of the the subject. My position is fully explained in ought to have, If this is to be the prime object of anguity. That he was fally justified in this this correspondence. I have no doubt his Marquis of Ripon writes in his despatch of the the Committee, the power to direct and pash view is shown by the experience of the Po Leung Excellency will forward it is its entirety to the 21st April
"I have further come to the conclusion that, this enquiry to its utmost fimits, instead of Kak Committee, which, though it consisted of Fight Hon. the Marquis of Ripon, and the
the local notwithstanding what has already been decided there belog a majority who have always opposed only four members, besides the Chairman, took publication of it in the columns enquiry and deem it loopportune and unnecessary, over a year, with the sasistance of a shorthand newspapers, and in pamphlet share, will, I in the direction of economy, additional advantage or an equality of voles tending to neutralise and whiter, to record some 170 pages of evidence and venture to hope, justify me in the eyes of the would be derived from insituting a comprehen,
sive enquiry affecting all departments in the people of the country will resent the insult la s stop all effective action. It is with very deep furnish its report, giving racuit of about half a public.
5-I bave, as you polat out, taken a very service, so that the facts and the possibilities of manner which may cause Mr. Chamberlain and Als Honour, the Chie! Justice, that there are, and Commissions in Hongkong is equalled by the prominent part in the movement in favour of reduction in the futurs tasy be placed on record, his friends regret for the rest of their political regret that I had myself compelled to agree with page a day. The desire for the appolatment of will be, sices. It is the essential condition of difficulty of induclog the members of the Com retrenchment and in urging the appoletment of and thus se opporine'ty of effecting retrench-lives.
■ Commlites of Enquiry, but I deny in the ment allowed to slip by,
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In these words are my complete justification. Irish members admittedly were not reapon FORKOSA... Messrs. N. Moalle & Co., Ld. and the persistent opposition of the officials 6The Retrenchment Commitee having then simplest and most straightforward manner that during the last few years to all prayers for enquiry been reduced to four members exclusive of the I have ever, at any time, given public assur. I want an requiry, 1 ablak no eagalty can be this for the disturbance. Mr. Fisher and FOOCHOW.Mr. H. W. Churchill has rendered it in this instance little more Chairman, vis, the Harboge Master, Mr. Chater, ancar of the facility with which large economics properly pushed and bring out all relevant facts his friends struck the first blows Slace SHANGHAI
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& Co. desirable and necessary. There can be no oficial members. The Governor is at a loss to You have no justification for such a statement; Goversitat and the public that I had sugges- York's organ, comments: Every Englishman Lomo Mesra, Amédốc Prince independent enquiry of the comprehensive Imagine by what process of reasoning you can have expressed the strongest opinions as to tions to make which were feasible and would must feel the shame and disgrace, Nevertheless natore desired by the pablicy and directed by Havo srived at this astonishing conclusion. It the need for ratenchment, and as to the enable important reductions to be made, or that it cannot be said that the scene was out of "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" OFFICE, the Secretary of State, unless at least is the more extraordinary because a subsequent possibility of great economies being affected in I am apparently of opinion that only through the keeping with the whole story of the Home Rule "When: Parliament has been violently majority of the whole Committes are decidedly letter of your shews that you had grasped the nearly all branches of the public service have instrumentally of Retrenchment Committee BILL in favour of enquiry, and of equity in that gay. I fact that the Commitee would have no power to mabogly urged upon the Government and the can 1 pepound thees reggestions." I have, farishad of lie frandom, la la lava la complain
May I further polat out that in my bambie nion it can be no possible advantage in an enquiry of this nature that the Consmission la so constituted that there is a probability of equal division of opinion on many points, and con sequent lability to take action. The object of the Committee enquiry, compreheniles enquiry," to use the words of the Right Hon.
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