CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12] — Page 157

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affear to have been ignored. I beg permission to repeat once more that I have been reluctantly compelled to address Your Lordship on this subject by a sense of public duty, and not from any personal feeling. A Governor, who for nearly twenty years, administered the Government of three of the greatest Provinces of the Empire, with the constant approval of the long line of Colonial Ministers from Sir

Edward Bulwer Lytton and

the Duke of Newcastle in 1859

156

To Lord Kimberley in 1882; who successfully founded and organized the new Colony of Hongkong, appointing every Officer & Government there from the highest to the lowest without any interference from the Colonial Office in England, and necessarily before the meeting of the Colonial Parliament, and the formation of a Responsible Ministry; who, through the policy initiated by himself, brought to a close the long wars in New Zealand thereby putting an end to a great

expenditure

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affear to have been ignored. I beg permission to repeat once more that I have been reluctantly compelled to address Your Lordship on this subject by a sense of public duty, and not from any personal feeling. A Governor, who for nearly twenty years, administered the Government of three of the greatest Provinces of the Empire, with the constant approval of the long line of Colonial Ministers from Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and the Duke of Newcastle in 1859 156 To Lord Kimberley in 1882; who successfully founded and organized the new Colony of Hongkong, appointing every Officer & Government there from the highest to the lowest without any interference from the Colonial Office in England, and necessarily before the meeting of the Colonial Parliament, and the formation of a Responsible Ministry; who, through the policy initiated by himself, brought to a close the long wars in New Zealand thereby putting an end to a great expenditure
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4 affear to have been ignored. I beg pirmission to repeat once more that I have been reluctantly compelled to addrew Your Lordship on this subject by a sense of public duty, and not from any personal feeling . A Governor, who for nearly twenty years, administered the Govomment of three of the greatest Provinces of the Empire, with the constant approval of the long line of Colonial Ministers from Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and the Duke of Newcastle in 1859 156 To Lord Kimberley in 1882;_whe successfully founded and organized the new Colony of Onceinsland, appointing every Officer & Gorommet there from the highest to the lowest without any interférence from the Colonial Offices in England, and necessarily before the meeting of the Colonial Parliament, and the formation of a Responsible Alinistry; who, through the policy " initiated by himself, brought to a close the long was in New Zealand thereby putting an end & a great expenditure
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affear to have been ignored. I beg pirmission to repeat once more that I have been reluctantly compelled to addrew Your Lordship on this subject by a sense of public duty, and not from any personal feeling . A Governor, who for nearly twenty years, administered the Govomment of three of the greatest Provinces of the Empire, with the constant approval of the long line of Colonial Ministers from Sir

Edward Bulwer Lytton and

the Duke of Newcastle in 1859

156

To Lord Kimberley in 1882;_whe successfully founded and organized the new Colony of Onceinsland, appointing every Officer & Gorommet there from the highest to the lowest without any interférence from the Colonial Offices in England, and necessarily before the meeting of the Colonial Parliament, and the formation of a Responsible Alinistry; who, through the policy " initiated by himself, brought to a close the long was in New Zealand thereby putting an end & a great

expenditure

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