Council. Your Lordship appears to have written under the impression that Mr. Lowcock was actually in the Colony at that time. But on the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch Mr. Lowcock was not in the Colony. I have now satisfied myself that his interest in "Hongkong" (from which he is still absent) is not such as to justify his appointment.
On the other hand, the more I have considered it, the more I am disposed to doubt the sound policy of appointing a Chinese gentleman to a permanent seat on the Legislative Council; and therefore I venture to suggest that Your Lordship might reconsider this latter question.
I fear Your Lordship will think I have delayed, to an extent that is almost inexcusable, in furnishing a list of prominent members of the English Community suitable for places in the Legislative Council. The difficulty in preparing such a list arises from the extraordinary rapid changes in the commercial life of this Colony of late years.
Not a single one of the old English houses is to be found among the agents now conducting the business here. Nor is it merely that the real heads of English houses are no longer resident in the Colony, but the business itself has not remained in the same hands.
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Conneil. Your Lordship appears to have
written under the imp
ssion that Mr.
impression
Lowcook was actually in the Colony at that time. But on the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch Mr. Lowrock was
not in the
I have
now
Colony. satisfied myself that his interest in "Hongkong (from which he is still absent) is not such as to justify his appointment.
On the other hand the
considered it, the less I
more
am
I have
disposed to
doubt the sound policy of appointing a Chinese gentleman to a permanent seat on the Legislative bounail; and therefore I venture to suggest that Your Lordship might reconsider this latter question.
2.
2.
I fear Your Lordship will
think I have delayed, to an extent that
is almost inexcusable, in
list of
name
furnishing a
of prominent members of the English Community suitable for places in the Legislative Council. The difficulty in preparing such a list arises from the extraordinary rapid changes
and
in the commercial life of
this Colony of late
Mame
years.
Not a
of the old English houses
is to be found
HongKong
agents
now
among
single of
the
conducting the business here. Nor is it merely that the real heads of English houses are no
longer resident
in the Colony, but the business itself
has not remained in the same hands.
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