CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11] — Page 364

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All AI Reviewed

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does not, in the words of General Sargent, conduce to the dignity of the "Queen's representative or of the officer Commanding Her Majesty's Troops?

Moreover, it is regarded as a "personal indignity," not only by Generals, and other naval and Military Officers, but also by the Judges of the Supreme Court, by the Attorney-General, and by the Colonial Society.

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"Among other grotesque consequences of the existing system, the Chief Justice informs us that, on his arrival in Hongkong, the Oaths of office were administered to him by the Gaoler, then acting as Governor?

(4.) Other Crown Colonies are rarely visited by Foreign officers of high rank. But at Hongkong there are almost constantly, French, German, and other Foreign Admirals in command of foreign squadrons, while Foreign Ministers, and travellers of distinction, are frequent visitors. It is easy to understand that the office of the Representative of the Queen of England is brought into contempt and ridicule in the eyes of Foreigners when they see it filled by a Gaoler or by other Civil Officers of inferior rank.

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