addressed to Governors of Colonies where "Houses of Assembly" were in existence. Difficulties in

The Barbados have been set at

rest by the appointment of

the Executive Committee which was established during my tenure of office there. In the Bahamas Unofficial

Members are still seated at

the Executive Council table.

If Your Lordship

should desire to make

any

such

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such concession in the case

of Hongkong, and it would undoubtedly be a

very popular and I do not think an alto-

gether impolitic concession, I would advise in the absence of any Chinaman fitted for

the post the appointment to the Executive and Legislative Councils of either the Hon. J.J. Keswick, or of Mr. Thomas Jackson, the Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

If

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