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Mr. Gill to acting Colomine te

11th betober 1870.

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did es, and for outnumbered the others.

Irving to the

fact

that the Chairman did

not think proper to have the resolutions

hanslated to them, the Kinese protected

Wetter D. M. So Kwanbun

"Daily Preps of 16 October 1878-

Mehr Choy than & Mask by Yeung

Hack lof sexy, 10tbeth 1878

heting Coc. Secy to weepers Choy Chan & Mot by Heung 11 bctober 1875.

against the proesedings and went away,

quietly, leaving the minority in popepion

斥

of the meeting. They embrequently

"asslied to me for the

hold a Bublic

for the usual

authority

to

a public meeting to consider and

discup those resolutions, but I asked

them to reconsider the idea, on

the

ground that I deprecated agitation, and

Colony like this, I was not

that in a

at all certain that sublic meetings

the Perolutions that were

that occasion

2.

the views

pased

on

Trone resolutions fairly represent

of an influential section of the Zuropean residents of SongKong including. iftis out of the four non official Members

of Council. They were prorosesh and seconded by highly rescictable gentlemen. But the larger proportion of the hirvecan community, including (with the exception I am tolk

told of one individual)

the whole of the Portuguese took no part

in the

meeting and I understand

dicapprove of the resolutions

Ju

Chinese inhabitants, who had been

invited by the promoters to attend,

were

the

most prudent

and

efficient

mcaus

by

which the inhabitants