No. 180.
Hongkong.
23017
113
9 JUN 02
Government House,
Hongkong,
8th May, 1902.
You sir,
With reference to paragraph 2 of my Despatch No. 177 of the 6th instant, in which I informed you that the Bishop of Victoria had tendered his resignation as a Member of the Education Committee before its sittings were completed or its Report fully drawn up, I have the honour to transmit for your information the enclosed copy of the correspondence which took place between the Bishop and myself in connection with His Lordship's resignation.
2.
The correspondence so fully explains itself that it is not necessary for me to enter into any further details. I have to inform you, however, that as I thought the Bishop's former colleagues on the Education Committee should be allowed an opportunity of reading and commenting upon his remarks, I caused the correspondence to be forwarded to them for that purpose, and received from them a Memorandum of which the second enclosure to this Despatch is a copy.
3.
While I regret that the Bishop was not prepared to retain his membership of the Committee, to which in its earlier labours he had given the benefit of his assistance and counsel, I am not disposed to believe that the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
...