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a few years ago on the ground that they
had created crime and
cruel, I venture to touch
were unr
on
unnecessarily
two points
of a somewhat personal nature which, until the essential questions had been finally settled, I did not think it necessary
to notice.
In the papers presented
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to both houses of Parliament in
August
1879 relating to the flogging of Chinese
prisoners in
Hong Kong, is a despatch of
Lord Carnarvon dated 3rd of January, 1878, acknowledging the receipt of several
despatches of mine
on
a
variety of topics
connected with the penal system of Hong Kong, and in which His Lordship expresses the opinion that I was
undertaking
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il
and initiating changes in a place and under circumstances new and unfamiliar
and without consulting the
Executive Council.
3.
Since the publication of
this despatch of Lord Carnarvon, it has been the subject of leading articles
articles in one
or two of the local newspapers that
very friendly
sistently maintain a not attitude towards the Chinese. The
gentlemen who work this Anti-Chinese
spirit in Hong Kong
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to repeat,
with some
were
only too glad
exaggeration, that
the Governor of the Colony had been taken to task by the Secretary of State for not having consulted his Executive Council before altering
the
severe
prison discipline
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