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Chaplain
in
answer
to a request of
the Colonial Secretary that they would
favour
me
with
any observations they
desired to make as to the possible discontinuance of Ecclesiastical Grants
in this colony.
2.
Bishop Burdon thinks
the Church of England merchants in Hong Kong would be quite
as well able
as those of Shanghai to pay for their
Chaplain, especially if the Cathedral
and the future appointments
were handed over to them.
3.
The Colonial Chaplain sees no reason
for the proposed change,
and he points out that it would
necessarily
involve some
arrangement
for the spiritual oversight of the Gaol and the Civil Hospital.
4.
The latter point, the pay
of a Chaplain for the Gaol and the Hospital, has also been pressed
on
my
attention by Bishop Raimondi, who states that he has now to provide a Roman Catholic Chaplain for those
institutions for which he gets
no remuneration.
5.
If the question of
paying a Colonial Chaplain
were to be dealt with de novo,
I might be inclined to recommend a system of
concurrent endowment and the
payment of moderate sums to the
various
Chaplains of the Gaol and the