To
379
グ
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
020
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