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supposed, it will become my duty, in justice to myself and
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and to
my
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successors, to notify publicly at Hong Kong that the responsibility of selection no longer rests where the Queen's Regulations have placed it, and in accordance with the system of competitive examinations which I have established, and which is working in a very satisfactory manner.
• As I have already
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remarked elsewhere = "All political experience and administrative experience tends to show that the semblance without
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"the substance of power
and
responsibility is purely mischievous.
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that.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant
G. Bowen
I should, perhaps, mention
my replies to the despatches
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the above, and on several other
subjects, have been unavoidably
delayed in consequence of a severe
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