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called
off
: ); but who, in the course of his wanderings, had somehow
picked up the patios of Naples and Venice. It will be seen that this supposed case is a close parallel
to that action of the Colonial Office by His Excellency
to which it has become necessary to solicit your Lordship's attention.
5. It will be recollected that this is not the first occasion during the few but laborious months of my administration at Hongkong, (during which I have already restored harmony and
efficiency
to
the government; reorganized several of the Departments; and commenced a large number of Sanitary and other Public Works;) that the Department in Graning Street seems to have made
unfounded insinuations of want of proper care against a Governor of my position and long services; and that in my case, as the Attorney General has pointed out, the Queen's Colonial Regulations, and the Statute Law of
Hong Kong, 1893
93-4
or to the Colony, confirmed by the Jacobean,
See Governor's Dispatch No. 193, 1883.
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appear