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of whom succeeding Generals, some may probably adopt a similar mode of emphasizing those feelings. At all events, the General cannot be reckoned upon as a constant attendant, for he is necessarily often absent on Military duty, and while engaged in inspecting the Troops at Singapore and Penang. It will be remembered that the General Commanding is ex-officio a member of the Legislative Council in the Straits Settlements, which is an extensive Colony with varied interests, while, by a strange anomaly, he is excluded from the Legislative Council at his Head Quarters at Hongkong, which is a petty island, and, like Gibraltar, merely a Naval and Military station.
(2) The present position of Treasurer is, by general argument, one of the most abnormal and inconvenient among many abnormal and inconvenient arrangements which I found existing at Hongkong. From the official correspondence record, on it...
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