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the Officer Aduimestering the Government
during hay
absence.
3. I may be permitted to add
that at the close of
this
year
Istall
have blew he
nearly
tterie
years li
Hong kong, after which period of i recidence in this tropical Climate,
leave of abrence to Europe is generally Considered imperative for the preservation of European health and vigour. I have, moreover, already completed or set in full train, all the public measures and public-
works which were
urgently required here,
ruy
but which were in abeyance
....
mption of thier Government. The
Establishment in the Colorrial
a ducinistration
I
administration of harmony
efficiencys
aud
which did not waist on
my arrival ; the reconstruction of the Legislation Council so as to give
adequate voice to the Commu
ommunity
เน
the management of their municipal
the new Victoria College andité.
Concerns;
scholarships, enabling some of the home
promising students to finish their education in England; the improved
and reorganized Schools, Police, Hospitals, and Prison; the Eretensive Works of Water Supply and Sanitation; the new Picblic Park; the system of Defence.
recommended,
Works woluch so stron
strongly
the enforcement of British Neutrality during the recent crisis, while preseron
Cordial