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for
iz
further expression of my
views upon the subject. I really have
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little to add lo
my
Despatch No
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Ja
712073/20
133 of the 5th June last.
With reference to para: 6 of Lord Repon's
2 espatch, I would observe that it
would be extremely difficult, if not
impossible, to find
Chinese gentleman fit to sit in Executive Council.
a Chinaman pure and simple
would
and could not be an inde
pendent member, and I do not think
he would
be
M
acquisition. An
Anglo-Chinese Representative like
D" Hokai would
hand
have
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the other
the confidence of the
A hine se
The Chinese have no idea of
Viepresen-
12.073/qut
tative Government; they do not and
Cannot understand it, and as Shave
already reported, if a plebiscite were.
takere, they
would woke før
ሲ፡
autocracy.
I hav
71.0
objection to the appoint
of
ment to the Excecutive Council.
the
Senior Member of the Legislative Council,
and of a thoroughly independent Member
such as It Thomas Jackson, and I
that the Community with the
think
exception of Mr Whitehead and Int
Francis 2. C. would be quite satisfied.
with that arrange
vent.
As to the legislative Council I am of
Chinese
operuion that