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has a far wider application than as it affects my own personal ones. I would therefore venture to suggest that His Excellency should put it into such a shape that it might be circulated generally and that the Judges might forward their opinion thereon, the questions, so far as it affects individually, in the meantime, standing over.
I have &c.
(Signed) Fr. H. Keswick
Copy of a letter from the Hon'ble Mr Keswick to the Hon'ble The Colonial Secretary
Sir,
Colonial Secretariat,
Hongkong, 4th February 1880
I addressed you on the 5th December last, and have not yet received any reply. His Excellency the Governor made enquiry by dispatch No. 154 of the 20th of that month relative to the subject, to which I had the honour of directing.
The Acting Colonial Secretary,
W. H. Marsh