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administrative arrangements are

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acutely feit in small than in great communities. Only a infinitesimal portion of the thirty. five millions constituting the population of the United Kingdom.

are

brought into personal contast

with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

while the majority of the two hundred

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are

or three hundred adult English Civilians residing at Hongkong, brought into frequent contact with the Colonial Freasurer. eAgain, it.

* The Census of 1881 shows that there were then 785 English Civilians at Hongkong.

and children

men, women,

will be remembered that attention has

sometimes been called by the Colonial Department in London to certain

small alleged financial irregularities at Hong Kong. The marver, in the opinion of all persons on the spot, is that, under the system prescribed

approved by that Department, there should have been any finansial

regularity at all.

The natural and proper

course to have been pursued would,

in the opinion of the most competent judges, have been, not to make the

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