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Her Majesty's European
and Chinese subjects vied
with one another in the
endeavour to make the
celebration worthy of the
august occasion, and they
achieved a result which
must have been surprising
to everyone who, like
myself, had had
no
previous
experience of the loyalty, energy, and lavish liberality of the inhabitants of this
small Colony.
closure
3.
Daily Press " of 15 Nov. 1887.
I enclose newspaper
cuttings which give a fair
account of
what took place.
4.
Some 8000 people,
(representing the guilds of the various trades) all more or less gorgeously dressed, took part in
the Chinese day
and night processions, the
former of which was
4½ miles in length
and took 3¼ hours to pass the Grand Jury house; while, as
regards the
illuminations, I question
whether