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: "peopled mainly by our own countrymen;
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and that the administration of its
affairs is virtually directed by the
"Secretary of State
for
The Colony in
"England. For it is less necessary to recollect that regulations affecting the "health of Her Majesty's naval and
military forces
"on the China Station [or- "on the Straits Station] are regarded as "Imperial questions, to be decided not by "The local Government at Hongkong, "but by the Imperial Government in
"London - You will probably have "learned from the Official papers on
this
"this subject laid
before
Parliament
And
"specially from the Earl of Kimberley's "despatches of July 1881. "Measures have already been adopted:
"by the Secretary of State, and by my "able predecessor in the Government of "Hongkong, to put an end to the abuses "of the system formerly in force, and of
"which
You partly complain - I am "now authorized to inform you that
"Since the date of Lord Kimberley's "published despatch, to which I have "referred above, the Colonial Government 'have sent home the drafts of
An
Amending