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is universally liked and respected.
A man observe, in
4.
passing, that the English at
Hongkong have been accused, in
one or two quarters; in former years, of a tendency to allow less than justice to members of other races settled in this colony: This accusation was probably never well-founded; and it is now entirely disproved by the fact
that, on the first occasion that
This community has been permitted
to exercise a quasi-electoral
privilege, the principal constituency,
though comprising an overwhelming
majority of Englishmen, has nominated as its representative in The Colonial Legislature - a British subject indeed, and educated in England, but a gentleman who is by race and creed a Parsee from
India. Nay more, it will be seen from the annexed report of the
proceedings, that three candidates
were proposed to the Bench of Justices, and that the two first on
the poll were Mr Dassoon and my
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