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Government in the event of a vacancy, - from whatsoever cause, in the office of Governor, and would ask permission to submit the following observations:- (1) in my despatch 132 I remarked that it is considered a sufficient condemnation of the system now in force at Hong Kong that it has, within the last two years, twice placed the Superintendent of the Gaol in the position of Governor and Commander-in-chief. The Colonial Office despatch in reply (N: 1744) admits the grave inconvenience of such incongruous payments, but declares that it is better to incur such inconvenience occasionally "than to give up the control of Civil administration to a Military officer who is necessarily unacquainted with "the manifold duties of a Governor, "and whose previous training has "not been such as to fit him for the discharge of civil functions." In other words, the Colonial Office appears to be now of opinion that the training of a Gaoler in the discipline of a prison is a better preparation for...
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