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Enclosure No2 in Administrator Marsh's despatch W. 200 of - 20th September 1882-
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The China Stail.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1882.
THE HON. NG CHOY AND THE PALL MALL GAZETTE.
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL."
Hongkong, Sept. 6.
Sra. Ithink I ought to take some public notice of the paragraph in the Pall Mall Gazette respecting Government policy in Hongkong, which was reproduced in your issue of the 1st inst., as ny name was ten- | tioned therein.
That I have made the assertion to the effect that any reversal of Governor Hen- nessy's Chinese policy, or any retrograde step, would inevitably be followed by the distrust of the Chinese of the Colony and the withdrawal of their capital, I do not for a moment deny, for I adhere still to the opinion; but in justice to R. E. the Ad- ministrator, I feel bound to say that up to the present moment, so far as I can judge, his public acts have not been antagonistic to the interests of the Chinese Community. Mr Marsh'a return to the Colony to assumie the reins of the Government is so recent, that no blame should be attached to him for the commercial panic and the consequent meeting of the 10th June convened at the City Hall. He had no more to do with the causes which led to the recent calant- ity than Governor Heunessy had; and in my opinion, which is shared by every one of my Chinese friends to whom I have spoken on the subject, the disastrous events would have happened even if neither Mr Marsh nor Sir John Pope Hennessy had ever administered the Government of this Colony.
Yours obediently,
NG CHOY.
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