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at Shanghai with a revenue

of only seventy thousand pounds (£40000), with the results of virtual Government from the Colonial Office. even in the smallest details of Municipal Administration, at Hongkong, with a

revenue of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds (£220,000). And yet I have not met here a single Englishman who does not agree - with me that in a Crown Colony circumstanced as is Hongkong, the control over the entire policy and

of the Administration, must,

course

of

must, of necessity, be vested absolutely in the Colonial Minister in England, and in the Governor, as his local

Representative. The claim that is ~

generally advanced is that this absolute control should, as a

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a general rule, be exercised in the manner ---

recommended by Lord Grey, that is, without meddling interference in the details of the administration", except,

of course, in extreme cases. In other words, the English at Hongkong simply ask that their Legislative Council ___ composed of the Governor, of the

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* Colonial Blicy-Vol. 1- page 22-

Chief