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to trade and to the prosperity and progress of this Colony.

7.

For myself, I may be

· permitted to take this opportunity, of expressing my thankfulness that

I have been able to

carry out.

the

faithfully and energetically | instructions of Her Majesty's | Government, and to enforce the

of neutrality and the provisions of the "Foreign Enlistment

laws

Aet, during the recent prolonged

crisis, when

on

any

England with both France and China. As has been said on

previous occasion, the Times

ago,

remarked, some months

a

in a

-leading article, that "In a state of

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virtual war,

which

may yet

in

" strictness not be war, Sir George

"Bowen has had to perform

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difficult and delicate task,

a

sense and

requiring great good tact" "The highest Diplomatie

#!

Authority in the East recently

wrote to me as

serious

false step

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my part might have embroiled

England

follows : _ "I quite

appreciate the difficulty of your

position

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