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Council, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Honourable E. R. Belilios, member of the Legislative Council, C.M.G., in which these gentlemen express their decided opinion that the prayer of the Petition should not be granted.
These papers will be of material assistance in enabling Your Lordship to arrive at a decision upon the subject.
The second clause of the Petition seems to me to be an answer to several requests of the Petitioners.
It is impossible that Hong Kong can have been otherwise than well governed if it has risen to the prosperous condition which the Petitioners claim for it and that it has reached that pitch of prosperity under "the Crown Colony system" is
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