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the special interests of his Inspectorate and the broader interest connected with the advancement of the much abused Hong Kong British stronghold of Foreign Civilization at the face of China. Mr Hart is a gentleman of extraordinary ability and influence in China, and if his offer of partnership in the important scheme proposed were accepted, it would probably reconcile by degrees the conflicting interests which have rendered the Colony odious in the eyes of the Foreign Inspectorate and of British Ministers at Peking and strengthen the position of Hong Kong as a fulcrum for the great civilizing engine, Commerce, which Mr Hart is so anxious to develop as he observes "a posit... from which Western light might be thrown into the whole of China!"
The questions involved are of such great practical importance to the future welfare of the Colony that Lord Carnarvon may be disposed to invite His Excellency Kennedy to favour him with his views before...