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efficiensy

was secured in the various

departments dependant on the outlay

and

especially

in

of public money, those departments to whose operation I attribute the comparative immunity from serious crime that the Colony

now

6.

large

enjoys.

In referring to the

revenue obtained in 1880, and for the

to the fact that the income

current

"year is also exceeding Mr Tonnochy's prudent anticipation, I pointed to the connection between the

revenue

of

Eastern

of this Colony and the progress

Her Majesty's Chinese subjects

in this

important depôt of trade on terms of perfect equality with the other residents in the Colony. As the treatment

of

attracting

the Chinese elsewhere is now some notice I venture to invite Your Lordship's attention to the following passage from the speech in bouncil of Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, the senior___ partner in the East of the house of

Jardine Matheson & Co :-

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commerce

and showed how

"

/

both seemed to be not unfavourably influenced by the policy of treating

Her

"

"9.

din sure

of Council joms

with

every

me

in

congratulating Your Excellency

our financial position, and

member

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considering how greatly our trade: depends upon the industry of the

Chinese