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the Officer Aduimestering the Government

during hay

absence.

3. I may be permitted to add

that at the close of

this

year

Istall

have blew he

nearly

tterie

years li

Hong kong, after which period of i recidence in this tropical Climate,

leave of abrence to Europe is generally Considered imperative for the preservation of European health and vigour. I have, moreover, already completed or set in full train, all the public measures and public-

works which were

urgently required here,

ruy

but which were in abeyance

....

mption of thier Government. The

Establishment in the Colorrial

a ducinistration

I

administration of harmony

efficiencys

aud

which did not waist on

my arrival ; the reconstruction of the Legislation Council so as to give

adequate voice to the Commu

ommunity

เน

the management of their municipal

the new Victoria College andité.

Concerns;

scholarships, enabling some of the home

promising students to finish their education in England; the improved

and reorganized Schools, Police, Hospitals, and Prison; the Eretensive Works of Water Supply and Sanitation; the new Picblic Park; the system of Defence.

recommended,

Works woluch so stron

strongly

the enforcement of British Neutrality during the recent crisis, while preseron

Cordial