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Pt 16 SEP 19
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To His Excellency the Governor.
All the inhabitants of the territory look up to you with
reverence and hope.
In the summer of the twenty-fourth year of the
reign of His Imperial Chinese Majesty (1898) it was decreed
that the territory in the neighbourhood of Kowloon in the San
On District should be leased to Her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain.
At the beginning of the present year, Sir Henry
Blake was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen, Governor of
Hong Kong and its Dependencies.
It is well known to all that since Hong Kong
became a British Colony and since the establishment at Shanghai
of a British Settlement, these two places have become the abodes
of peace and prosperity, and their inhabitants are filled with
songs of praise. This is due to the people residing there having
enjoyed to the full the great benefits of just Government
which has been able to transform places formerly insignificant
into a land of happiness.
Happy is the lot which has now fallen to the
Kowloon