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I cannot h

lenger delay

4.

ressión of my ¥dows.

pocoty

I have already observed that

As I was desums

I should like to see a Municipal Coun-

cil established in Hong Kong, but in

Expressing myself, I

so writing, took note of two practical

人 objecterns

difficulties in the way, one temporary

and connected with the plague, the

other of a more lasting character, be-

ing the difficulty of separating Muni-

cipal from Colonial matters;

This latter objection appears

to me to be almost insuperable, and I

Local

gather that the feeling in opposition

to the creation of a Municipal Council

Similar to

my or is due to a similar conviction that the

A

co-existence, in so small an area, of

a Colonial as well as Municipal Admin-

istration is hardly practicable.

5.

But if the proposal to create

Regardist ino

a Municipal Council be, finally laid

aside