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a

very exhausting climate, since my arrival at Hongkong; and I am

· professionally advised that change of

air and seene

for a few weeks, in

the cool and bracing temperature of North China, is desirable. However,

Your Lordship may

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rest assured that

consideration whatsoever would

induce me to leave my post, even for

A

day, if the public interests had :required my presence in this

this Colony

at the present moment. But I apprehend

during

that this will not be the ease

the month of September and the

beginning

beginning of October; especially as I shall be in telegraphis communication with Hongkong. I have already succeeded

in restoring to the publie

publie service

of- is on this dependency that harmony and

Thouch no

1

efficiency which had of late years

mady been suspended, owing

suspended, owing to circumstances well Known at the Colonial Office, and to which it is unnecessary to refor

more

- particularly. Further, I have made myself thoroughly master of the state of affairs in this community, and have submitted for Your Lordship's consideration, plans of reform

in the

local

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