find them often very useful,
giving one some inkling of gauging public feeling and opinion, especially in the absence of any proper and adequate representation of this community in the Legislative Council?
Nevertheless, it is to be remembered that, in so small a community as that of Hong Kong, concentrated within a narrow space, the Press is sure to be at once more personal and less influential than in larger and more scattered communities. Here it is, of course, impossible to preserve that mystery which elsewhere enhances the power of the Press; for the Editorial "We" is identified with Mr. A. or Mr. B., individuals whom everybody knows and daily sees, and for whom nobody cares.
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In the second place, there is another point of some local importance in connection with the Press on which I would also request an expression of Your Lordship's opinion. The Treasurer (Mr. Lister) recently inserted in the two older English
* See my despatch no 62 of 1883.
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find them often very useful,
giving
one some Inland
as
of gauging
public feeling and opinion, especially in the absense of any proper and __ adequate representation of this m community in the Legislative Council ?
Nevertheless, it is to be remembered
ad
that, in so small a community that of Hong Kong, concentrated, ~__
a space,
the Press is sure to be at once more.
moreover, within so narrow a
personal and less influential than
in
larger
and more scattered
communities. Here it is,
of course, of
impossible
* See my despats no62 of 1883.
impossible to preserve that mystery- which elsewhere enhances the power of the Pres; for the Editorial "We" is identified
with Mr. A. or Mr.B.,
individuals whom
and daily sees, and for whom
cares.
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every body Knows nobody
In the second place,
there is another point of some local.
importance in connection with the Press on which I would also request
an ea
expression of Your Lordship's
opinion. The Treasurer (Mr. Lister) _
resently inserted in the two older__
English
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