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English, come here for a time in

the

hope of amassing wealth or at least

a

competence, with which they intend

to return to their native lands. Under

these circumstances, all who are

best sapable of forming a sound___ judgment on this important question

agree

that the

only

true and just~

policy is to lay down such principles and to hold such language as I

have at

attempted in my reply

to the

recent Deputation. In other words,

the Chinese here should be assured

I have assured them), that the

Governor

"Governor will always be glad to revive! "full and sandid expressions of opinion

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respecting public affairs from the

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Chinese community of Hongkong; and will always be desirous to carry out

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- far as possible, the reasonable and

as

- well-considered wishes

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who form

of

the Chinese,

form so large and important

"an cement in the population of this

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"Colony : "But at the same time, the

Chinese should be made to

understand (as I have endeavoured

to explain to them with combined -firmness and courtesy), that "the

"Colonial