CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 415

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who have settled in this British

Colony; for it will be remembered that when the island of Hougtong first occupied by England,

was

it was uninhabited save

by a

few fishermen and pirates.

4.

It will be observed

that the enclosed Memorandum.

&

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of 1883

I contains a list of my principal #272 +1018. despatches proving the consideration 1827083

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*

£3 of 487941883

during the 175470101010

present administration, and

shown to the Chinese

"theer grateful

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sense which they

entertain of that consideration"."

As

302

355 94883.

24 of 1884

• 49071884.

4 1642 of 18844.

previous

As I have stated on occasions, I have always enforced

justice _ "not dry but sympathetic justice - towards all the races in this heterogeneous community.

And as

I wrote in a recent_

En despatch (N = 348 of September 5, th ultimo); " I feel much sympathy

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with the Chinese; I admire their industry, their sobriety, and their many other good qualities; and I have always shaped my

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course so as never to run counter,

without grave necessity, to their

"national

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