665
L. Poesnecker
W. Reiners
G. C. Anderson E. F. Alford
Kenneth MeK. Ross
J. J. Bell-Irving
F. H. Slagher
Willm. Aitchison
W. Richards
C. W.
A. C. Macleod
D. B. Billia
Hip Li Wo Shing T' Yik
Tsan Ch'anug Him Kat Wing Ki
I'Ch'enng Tung Ki
Lo Fok-p'ang
Alexander Lovy Carl Clouth, M.D.
H. Sanders
H. T. Siemesen Robert
G. Nulty
M. B. Polishwalla
P. N. Parrak
M.
E. Asgar
Abdul Cader Moosabhoy B.
Marten
H.
S. M. Metta
A.
D.
H. F. Tamboly
Bhullarbhoy J. Mahomed
Abdoolabhoy Moomun
Gillies
J. P. da Costa
A. A. dos Remedios
J. P. da Costa, junr.
M. M. da Rons
A. J. V. Bibeiro
J. M. V. Ribeiro
Koffer
El. J. Nissen
Ernst C
C. Geyer J. D. Boning H. Kahlmana J. H. Leffmann
0. Wegener
W. T. Binn
H. Drude
Hongkong, 29th March, 1885.
The ADMINISTRATOR, in reply, said—Mr. Ryrie and gentlemen, I beg to thank you most sincerely and earnestly for the kind feelings that have prompted you to present me with this address. I feel I have done nothing to deserve the manifestation of kindly feeling towards me that you have exhibited to-day, for I have really done nothing more than I consider was strictly my duty. If I had done anything less I should have been deserving of reproach instead of praise. It is a very great gratification to me to see such an amount of kindly feeling and regard displayed towards me by the community of Hongkong. I have always received the greatest kindness in Hongkong, both on a former occasion and since my return twelve months ago, and I assure you the period I have resided in this colony will always be looked back upon by me as one of the brightest and pleasantest experiences of my life. (Applause). I will, with your permission, now read my reply to this address:—
GENTLEMEN,—The address which you have just presented to me on the occasion of the approaching termination of my Administration of the Government of this Colony is most gratifying to me and is highly prized as conveying the assurance that whilst endeavouring strictly and impartially to carry out the important duties with which I have been entrusted, I have had the good fortune to secure the esteem and regard of a large number representing all classes of the community of Hongkong.
When I assumed, twelve months ago, the duties which I am now about to hand over to a new Governor, I did not expect at the end of my term of office to receive so flattering a testimonial, nor could I have hoped that the impartial discharge of my duties would have received such general, and, to me, acceptable public recognition.
Any success I may have had is in no small degree due to the hearty co-operation that I have at all times received from members of both Councils and from the members of the Civil Service generally. Without their aid my task would have been a much more difficult one than it has proved to be.
I beg to thank you all most unfeignedly for your kind wishes and to assure you that I have and shall always retain the highest appreciation of the honour you have conferred on me by presenting me with this address.
W. H. MASH,
Government House, Hongkong, 29th March, 1889,
665
L. Poesnecker
W. Reiners
G. C. Anderson E. F. Alford
Kenneth MeK. Ross
J. J. Bell-Irving
F. H. Slagher
Willm. Aitchison
W. Richards
C. W.
A. C. Macleod
D. B. Billia
Hip Li Wo Shing T' Yik
Tsan Ch'anug Him Kat Wing Ki
I'Ch'enng Tung
Ki
Lo fok-p'ang Alexander Lovy Carl
Clouth, M.D.
H. Sanders
H. T. Siemesen Robert
G. Nulty
M. B. Polishwalla
P. N. Parrak
M.
E. Asgar
Abdul Cader Moosabhoy B.
Marten
H.
S. M. Metta
A.
D.
H. F. Tamboly
Bhullarbhoy J. Mahomed
Abdoolabhoy Moomun
Gillies
J. P. da Costa
A. A. dos Remedios
J. P. da Costa, janr.
M. M. da Rons
A. J. V. Bibeiro
J. M. V. Ribeiro
Koffer
El. J. Nissen
Ernst C
C. Geyer J. D. Boning H. Kahlmana J. H. Leffmann
0. Wegener
W. T. Binn
H. Drude
Hongkong, 29th March, 1885.
The ADMINISTRATOR, in reply, said-Mr. Ryrie and gentlemen, I beg to thank you most sincerely and earnestly for the kind feelings that have prompted you to present me with this ad- dress. I feel I have done nothing to deserve the manifestation of kindly feeling towards me that you have exhibited to-day, for I have really done nothing more than I consider was strictly my duty. If I had done anything less I should have been doserving of reproach !instead of praise. It is a very great gratification to me to see such an amount of kindly fooling and regard displayed towards me by the com- munity of Hongkong. I have always received the greatest kindness in Hongkong, both on a former occasion and since my return twelve months ago, and I assure you the period I have resided in this colony will always be looked back { apon by me as one of the brightest and pleas antest experiences of my life. (Applause). I: will, with your permission, now read my reply to this address:—
GENTLEMEN. The address which you have just pre- sented to me on the occasion of the approaching termina- tion of iny Administration of the Government of this Co-i lony is most gratifying to me and is highly prized as con- raying the assurance that whilet andeavouring strictly and impartially to carry out the important duties with which I have been entrusted, I have had the good fortune many persons re-
to secure the esteem and regard of a presenting all class of the community of Hongkong,
months ago,
the duties which
When I assumed twelve mon
I am now about to hand over to a new Governor, I did not expect at the end of my tero of alice receive 10 Blattering a testimonial, nor could I have hoped that the impartial discharge of my duties would have received such general, and, to me, acceptable public recognition.
Any success I may have had is in no small degree due to the hearty co-operation that I have at all thnes received from members of both Councils and from the menbers of the Civil Service generally. Without their aid my task would have been a much more difficult one than it has proved to be.
I beg to thank you all must unesrely for your kind wiebes and to assure you that I have and shall always re tain the highest appreciation of the honour you have cou- ferred on me by presenting me with this address.
W. H. MASH,
Government House, Hongkong, 29th March, 1889,
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