HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883.
His Excellency then said-It is customary for the Governor after taking the oaths to address a few words to the members of council and to the gentlemen who have taken an interest to be present at the ceremony.
Honorable gentlemen of the Council of Government, I have now taken the Customary Oaths of Office, and have assumed the Government of this important and interesting Colony,-the chief fortress and emporium-at once the Gibraltar and Malta of England in the Far East. It may, perhaps, be expected that I should make a few remarks on this occasion.
In the first place, I desire to express my deep sense of the hearty welcome which has been accorded to me, as the Representative of the Queen; and to my family by all classes of the population on my first arrival in this fair city, I trust that this our first meeting will prove auspicious for the future. For myself, I shall endeavour to show my gratitude for your courtesy by a diligent discharge of my duty alike to the Crown and to the Colony. I trust that when my term of office here shall have expired, I may leave Hongkong as I have left the other Colonies over which I have presided, without the consciousness of any duty wilfully neglected, or of any enmity wilfully incurred.
In the next place, let me assure you that I have come hither without any bias of any kind, and determined, so far as in me lies, to administer the authority which our Sovereign has committed to my charge, with strict impartiality, for the benefit of every race, every creed, and every class in this community. I hope always to maintain the most cordial relations with the Executive and Legislative Councils; and, in co-operation with them, to carry on with energy the construction of the Public Works, and general administration of the Colony. As myself an Imperial Officer, and the Representative of the Queen, I am confident that I may rely on the loyal support of my brother Imperial Officers, alike in the Civil, in the Naval, and in the Military service of the Crown. In conclusion, gentlemen, I assure you that I shall place unreservedly at the disposal of this Government, the varied experience which I have acquired during my long service of twenty-three years as the Governor of several of the greatest Provinces of the British Empire. I shall identify myself with this community; your interests will be my interests; your honor will be my honor; your prosperity will be my success and my happiness.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883.
His Excellency then said-It is customary for the Governor after taking the oaths to address a few words to the members of coun- cil and to the gentlemen who have taken an interest to be present at the ceremony.
Honorable gentlemen of the Council of Govern- ment, I have now taken the Customary Oaths of Office, and have assumed the Government of this important and interesting Colony,-the chief fortress and emporium-at once the Gib- raltar and Malta of England in the Far East. It may, perhaps, be expected that I should make a few remarks on this occasion.
In the first place, I desire to express my deep sense of the hearty welcome which has been ac corded to me, as the Representative of the Queen; and to my family by all classes of the population on my first arrival in this fair city, I trust that this our first meeting will prove auspicious for the future. For myself, I shall endeavour to show my gratitude for your courtesy by a diligent dis- charge of my duty alike to the Crown and to the Colony. I trust that when my term of office here shall have expired, I may leave Hongkong as I have left the other Colonies over which I have presided, without the consciousness of any duty wilfully neglected, or of any enmity wilfully incurred.
In the next place, let me assure you that I have come hither without any bias of any kind, and determined, so far as in me lies, to administer the authority which our Sovereign has committed to my charge, with strict impartiality, for the benefit of every race, every creed, and every class in this community. I hope always to maintain the most cordial relations with the Executive and Legislative Councils; and, in co-operation with them, to carry on with energy the construction of the Public Works, and general administration of the Colony. As myself an Imperial Officer, and the Representa- tive of the Queen, I am confident that I may rely on the loyal support of my brother Imperial Officers, alike in the Civil, in the Naval, and in the Military service of the Crown. In conclusion, gentlemen, I assure you that 1 shall place unreservedly at the disposal of this Government, the varied experience which I have acquired during my long service of twenty-three years as the Governor of several of the greatest Provinces of the British Empire. I shall identify myself with this community; your interests will be my interests; your honor will be my honor; your prosperity will be my success and my hap- piness,
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