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Excentive Council such subjects of a Military
nature as Your Excellency ~~ brought before it yesterday. Where a
difference of opinion on Military matters unhappily
arises between the Governor and the General Officer Commanding Groops, the Queen's Regulations point to
the Secretary of
1 for reference.
State as
the
the
Majesty's Troops are quartered, it is the custom for the General Officer in command to give a dinner to the. Heads of Departments on Her Majesty's Birthday, and as notwithstanding my denial of the fact, Your Excellency - asserted that the dinner I
repeatedly
proper channel
am
I take this opportunity of
giving my unqualified denial to the
unfounded assertion
a dinner
made
Your Excellency yesterday, that I am
giving on the 24th in opposition to the dinner given by Your Excelleney on the same day- Perhaps Your Excellency is not
avvare
of the fact that wherever Iber.
giving
on
the 24th is of a political
nature, I beg to put on record that this assertion is wholly devoid of
foundation, for I never take
whatever in, or concern
any
part
myself with, the polities of Hongkong. With regard to the Band, in consideration of its being
Majesty
Her most gracious, Birthday and the
distinguished visitors you.
are about to
entertain and under the circumstave: