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financial condition of the public funds thanks to the great ability of administration displayed by our present worthy Governor and the enormously daily increasing population in Hongkong due to the kind treatment of the Chinese on the part of the government; the practical difficulty will not be so great in equalising the grants as desired by ...
The proposal made by His Lordship of equalising the two Communities by discontinuing all annual allowances whatever for ecclesiastical purposes as the present recipients die out is worthy of consideration and we shall be satisfied receiving an equal sum to that granted to the Church of England as long as the present recipients live, ready to give it up as the present recipients die out, in which case all annual allowances whatever for ecclesiastical purposes shall be discontinued.
From what we said it will be known that what we claim is simply equality, and we do not think it to be an unreasonable demand when we consider that the Roman Catholic population in Hongkong, as it appears from our Registers, is not less than 2000, while the Anglicans in December 1876 were not more than 192...
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