OP I.
Your Excellency,
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REGE 25 MAY
Ping Shan,
25th April, 1899.
We are just about to start for Fan Ling, having been here since Wednesday, the 19th instant. The result of our stay here has been most satisfactory as I am able to report that the inhabitants of the most important and of the most rowdy districts in the new territory are now peacefully pursuing their usual avocations. The districts to which I refer are the Castle Peak District, Ha Tsun District, Ping Shan District, Shap Pat Heung District with Yuen Long at its head, Kam Tin District, and Pat Heung District.
The people now instead of murdering the bearer of our proclamations are begging for copies.
Two sets of iron gates, belonging to the Kam Tin District, have been carried by the inhabitants of that district to Flag-Staff Hill. This has had an excellent effect.
The walls of the villages at Kam Tin have not been pulled down; the entrances to two of the villages having iron gates only have been ...