Colony, it is now time that a larger measure of self government should be conceded. I therefore propose very shakily to examine the separate points upon which the petitioners suggest that some concession should be made.
·10° They ask in the first place for "the free election in the British Legislative Council of representatives of all nationality". The words are somewhat ambiguous. They may mean that voters should be of all nationality e.g. European, American, Asiatic or Chinese, provided the representatives for whom they vote are of British nationality.
The term "British nationality" again may be taken to mean either British subjects of all nationalities simply or persons who have been born or are the children of those who have been born in the United Kingdom. However, I assume that what the words are intended to convey is that the British and Irish in Hong Kong should elect representatives combining themselves to the Legislative Council, that all other nationalities, especially the Chinese should ...
If this is the meaning, then it is obvious from the figures which have been given already that considerably more than...
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