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for the host
of
Police Magistrate.
good
temper, patience, a sound knowledge
of his profession as
an English
barrister, and a thorough acquaintance
with the customs and real feelings
of
the inhabitants
of the Colony he
that has sat
on
the Magistrate's
bench since my arrival in the Colony-
is not equalled by any Gentleman
Knowing his fitness for the
Office
he was one
of
the two gentlemen
I submitted to his
Excellency Sir Michael Hicks Beach for the
permanent post of Police Magistrate
in my dispatch No. 3 of
the 25th
of
April 1879. In doing so I was not unmindful of what the Secretary of State
Mr Labouchere, wrote to one of my
predecessors, Sir John Bowring, in his
despatch No. of the 29th of July 1851-
"If hereafter you shall be able
"to select from the Chinese inhabitants
"persons deserving of confidence whom
you may think
fit
to hold this
"(the Magistracy of) and other
administrative Office, I should be
"willing to assent" to such "appointments!"
5. During the last quarter of a century, great changes have taken place in the Chinese Community of Hongkong, all of which tends to justify the opinion expressed by Mr Labouchere. In my despatch No. 98 of the
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