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the admiration & the envy of the world yet we
are treated as children, as unable to manage
deep
Oczy
4xcept at the discoction of ment officer
traffic a govern
"If for Imperial reasons the municipal affairs of this City must be in the hands of the general
Government, the officials should feel
bound in honour of in reason to conduct. them as
as we ourselves as such things
nearly as possible. should do, that is,
conducted in England
why
And there is
as
art
and Scotland.
special reason
an arbitrary discretion should not be left to officials in the present case. The Attorney General in introducing the Bill speaks of trucks and trollies
nuisance
art
ao a
It is fair to conclude that the Government proposes to limit their use. Dog Carts and Broughams loff affected by the Bill, according to the Attorney General, in "common factness" no me of the officials from the Governor down- wards has anything but pinricks has and .Chairs (these are excluded) but we
can not see why civilized means of bconstion or
carriage should be dis- couraged in Hongkong or why they should be more of "a ruisance" there or more incapable of regulation (specially
as
rearly all are trucks or trollies hand driven) than in London, Birmingham
or Bristol.