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English residents, which contributions would fall off considerably if the English Church community had

provide for the cost of a

to

Clergy

as well as

of the -

upkeep of the Cathedral, which alone

amounts to

over

£500

a

year.

(Five hundred pounds Steri

ofmongst these institutions I_ may site The Hongkong Public School, The Diverson Home and Orphanage, The Sailor's Home, The Seamen's — Mission Church, The Temperance Hall. I am informed also that the Anglican community subscribe

liberally

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liberally to Roman Catholic and

Lutheran charities and missions.

3

Should

Your Lordship

however maintain the previous

decision that, on the retirement of

the present Colonial Chaplain the Ecclesiastical grants should cease;

then I would ask that

instructions should be transmitted

for the

guidance of the Governor

as to the arr.

arrangements which

should be made when the

present grants

Cease.

-

The Chief

Justice has called attention in

his

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