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General Commanding the Troops and Commodore Cuming support their own opinions with strong reports from the Chief Naval and Military Medical Officers.
It will be further seen that the Attorney-General and other Civil Authorities are also opposed to the abolition of the examinations in question. I am assured that their views represent the general opinion of the European community in this Colony.
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As for the Chinese, their position and views with regard to this question will be gathered from the report of the Registrar-General, (Mr. Stewart), who is their official Protector, and from that of Mr. Justice Russell, the predecessor of Mr. Stewart in his present office. The Report of the Colonial Surgeon, (D. Ayres), also deserves attentive perusal.
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For myself, I concur with what I understand to be the view taken by Your Lordship - viz. that whatever may be the peculiar merits of the case in a community circumstanced as is that of Hongkong, it would be difficult, even...