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and co-

duties.

6.

Together

with these and

by

other testimonies from those most

competent to judge of the

my

success of adumistration of the internal

affairs of Hongkong,

I have also

received from the Admiral and~

on this Station

General Commanding -warm acknowledquents of

of my

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Friendly with them. I have further received from Her Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan their cordial thanks for the constant support-

and harmonious relations

and

operation afforded to them me, as the Governor of this antre of British power, influores, and Commerce in the Far East; which

co-operation they convicter to have been of great importance to the Queen's

Lof

service, and to the advancement

British interests in this quarter of the

globe.

7.

I have

completed

twenty-six (26) years of co-

service as

1 of continuous

the Governor of five Colonies

successively, viz : Queensland; · Now Zealand, Cictoria, Maurition,

Dar c