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end of 1879.
after
3.
I wo or
three months
I had assumed the
Government of this Colony, I drew Lord barnarvon's attention to
the large number of floggings in Hong Kong and to the undue severity, in
some cases leading,
in the opinion of the Colonial Surgeon, to loss of life, with which
the lash had been applied.
observed
that in
no other part
of Her Majesty's Empire was -
there
a
code of laws giving -
such extensive power of flogging,
but, I added
"Looking however to the
"theory held by intellegent Europeand
" here as to the specially criminal
"
character
of
the native population
of the bolony, and to the views
" of experienced European officials "and other gentlemen who have "lived in Hong Kong for many
that flogging years, that
flogging is one of the
"best modes of dealing with “Chinese criminals, I am not
prepared, without careful
very
"enquiry and much greater. "consideration than I have yet "been able to give to the subject.
to recommend a
more humane
Looking