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America, who is well acquainted with the English language and laws, who has served with the great Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, in China, and who has been a member of the Chinese Legation at Washington, is fully qualified to look at Chinese affairs with English and at English affairs with Chinese eyes.
He is a man of middle age, tall and of dignified appearance and manners. I am certainly fortunate in having secured for the Colonial Legislature so excellent a representative of the Chinese community. Mr. Wong Shing will be formally appointed (subject to the gracious confirmation of Her Majesty) so soon as the expected Order in Council shall arrive.
The estimation in which he is held in this community will be seen from the enclosed article in a leading local journal.
4. I hope to be able to report at an early date the names of the four English gentlemen (two of whom will ...)
Enclosure
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America, who is well acquainted with the English language and laws, who has served with the great Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, in
China, and who has been a
-member of the Chinese Legation at Washington, is fully qualified to look at Chinese affairs with
English and at English affairs
with Chinese
eyes.
He is a
of middle
age,
a maIL
and of dignified
appearance and manners. I am
certainly fortunate in having
secured for the Colonial Legislature.
so
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Enclosure
so excellent a representative of the
Chinese com
munity. Mr. Wong Shing
will be formally appointed (subjest
to the gracious confirmation of... Her Majesty,
so soon as
the expected
Order in Council shall arrive.
The
estimation in which he is held
in this community will be seen
from
the enclosed article
leading local journal.
4.
of
the
I hope to be able
to report at an early date the...
names
of the four English
gentlemen (two of whom will
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