of the Colony and reforming the penal system of a Chinese community, and that the Governor had been told that doing this in a Colony must at first have been strange to him.
The latter point is of no real moment, for as the principles laid down in 1897 for the treatment of Chinese criminals, and the material alterations I felt it my duty to initiate in the penal system of the Colony, have all been carried into effect, and in such a way as to check the constant recommittals of old offenders and to diminish crime, it hardly matters whether Chinese criminals and the Government of a Chinese community were strange to me or not in 1899.
As a matter of fact, however, I had had the honour of receiving, from 1867 to 1891, from the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Granville and Your Lordship some despatches approving of my government of a Chinese community and my treatment of Chinese Criminals. Though this personal and therefore very important point not unnaturally escaped Lord Carnarvon's notice, I find that one of the very newspapers that has been re-echoing His Lordship's remarks, called attention, ten years ago, to my mode of dealing with the Chinese and carefully pointed out to what extent and with what...
The Daily Press of 4th August, 1871.
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