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11.
ipherence
Speaking therefore with an
of
three
years
at this side
of the bhina Sea and of four years administration of a Chinese Community at the other side of the bhina Sea, I'
venture to think that the views of
those European Gentlemen, who assert
that the bhinese are
criminal race
an
exceptionally
and a race that
should be especially dealt with by
are not correct. On the
flogging,
contrary, having
some small experience
in the Government of nearly every race in Her Majesty's Colonies, _ Europeans, Negroes, Malays and Chinese, _ I
more disposed
disposed to say that the
latter
race the least
are as a rac
criminally inclined and that they
are
the easiest to influence by that best
of reformatory elements, industrial labour.
There is another pourt
12.
in
that perhaps should not be lost sight
Government Her Majesty's of by considering the recommendations sugguted
by the foregoing statements - I refer to the fact that the late Lord Derby, Mr. Gladstone and Earl Grey,
as well as
others who were concerned in the
creation
of
this Colony, develt over and
over
again
on the benefits it might
indirectly confer on the neighbouring
Empire of China by setting
an example